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UK
/pˈɪpɪt/
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NOUN
- a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage
How To Use pipit In A Sentence
- Meadow pipits, commonest of upland birds, negotiated undulating flight paths over white tufts of cotton grass.
- A meadow-pipit tsip-tsips from rock to rock while a buzzard mounts thermals on still wings and mews down at us. Country diary: Barmouth
- Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
- In addition, killdeer, pipits and some shorebirds visit the grassy areas of landfills.
- American Pipits are present in Washington as breeders, migrants, and wintering birds.
- Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
- They existed, but only as a race of the more familiar rock pipit, the sole British songbird whose breeding range is confined to the coast. Birdwatch: Water pipit
- Most observations relate to larks, pipits and finches but kestrels are capable of taking such quarry as fieldfares, turtle doves and lapwing.
- Favourite host species include dunnock, meadow pipit and reed warbler. Times, Sunday Times
- Pipits and wagtails can be found in a variety of habitats from temperate to tropical and polar regions.