Skowronek (film)
Skowroneck or Skowronek (en: Lark) may refer to: * Skowronek, Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in northern Poland * Skowronek (surname), people with the last name. * Skowronek (horse), an Arabian stallion *Ben Skowronek Bennett William Skowronek ( ; born June 27, 1997) is an American football wide receiver for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Northwestern and Notre Dame, and was drafted by the Rams i ...

Lark
Larks are passerine birds of the family Alaudidae. Larks have a cosmopolitan distribution with the largest number of species occurring in Africa. Only a single species, the horned lark, occurs in North America, and only Horsfield's bush lark occurs in Australia. Habitats vary widely, but many species live in dry regions. When the word "lark" is used without specification, it often refers to the Eurasian skylark ''(Alauda arvensis)''. Taxonomy and systematics The family Alaudidae was introduced in 1825 by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors as a subfamily Alaudina of the finch family Fringillidae. Larks are a well-defined family, partly because of the shape of their . They have multiple scutes on the hind side of their tarsi, rather than the single plate found in most songbirds. They also lack a pessulus, the bony central structure in the syrinx of songbirds. They were long placed at or near the beginning of the songbirds or oscines (now often called Passeri), just afte ...
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Skowronek, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Skowronek is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Lubichowo, within Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately west of Lubichowo, south-west of Starogard Gdański, and south of the regional capital Gdańsk. The name means "lark" in Polish. For details of the history of the region, see ''History of Pomerania The history of Pomerania starts shortly before 1000 AD with ongoing conquests by newly arrived Polans rulers. Before that, the area was recorded nearly 2000 years ago as Germania, and in modern-day times Pomerania is split between Germany and Pol ...''. References Skowronek {{Starogard-geo-stub ...
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Skowronek (surname)
Skowronek is a Polish-language surname, meaning literally lark. Notable people with the surname include: * Artur Skowronek (born 1982), Polish football manager *Ben Skowronek (born 1997), American football player *Martin Skowroneck (1926–2014), German harpsichord builder * Michał Skowronek (born 1949), Polish runner * Ryszard Skowronek (born 1949), Polish decathlete *Stephen Skowronek Stephen Skowronek (born 1951) is an American political scientist, noted for his research on American national institutions and the U.S. presidency, and for helping to stimulate the study of American political development. Early life and educat ... (born 1951), American political scientist {{surname, Skowronek Polish-language surnames ...
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Skowronek (horse)
Skowronek (a name meaning ''lark'' or ''skylark'' in Polish) was an Arabian stallion foaled in 1908 or 1909. He was bred by Count Józef Potocki who owned the Antoniny Stud in Poland. He was imported to England as a young horse. Upon purchase by Lady Wentworth, Skowronek became a foundation stallion at Lady Wentworth's Crabbet Arabian Stud. He was most often crossed on mares who were daughters or granddaughters of the stallion Mesaoud, another foundation stallion for Crabbet, who had been bred by Ali Pasha Sherif and imported from Egypt to England by Lady Wentworth's parents, Wilfrid Wilfrid ( – 709 or 710) was an English bishop and saint. Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Francia, and at Rome; he returned to Northumbria in about 660, and ... and Lady Anne Blunt. Skowronek was a gray (horse), gray stallion, on the small side, noted for his outstanding Arabian type, particularly his fine ...
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