The Steel Skylark

It was inspired by one of Britain's rarest birds and written for a Worcestershire musician to perform.

Now the classical piece 'The Lark Ascending' is set to be the driving influence behind a new sculpture of a skylark in Malvern.

If approved by councillors a 20ft tall steel structure would be installed in the town's Rose Bank gardens.

But what is it about the bird itself that inspires so many artists?

I went to meet ornithologist Simon Roberts, from the Malvern Hills Trust: