pipit
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It was a meadow pipit, a protected bird in China, and an important "indicator species" - that means if its numbers are thriving, so is its environment.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025
They include: the Sprague’s pipit, a northern grassland songbird, that’s lost more than 75% of its population since 1970.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023
The group labeled “insect eaters” combines many species because the numbers for individual species were too small to show separately as shown for the meadow pipit and willow grouse, which are both highly abundant.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
It was true that there were extraordinary birds to be seen, not just penguins but oddities like the snowy sheathbill and the world’s southernmost-breeding songbird, the South Georgia pipit.
From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2016
The young birds having left the nest, in August both old and young gather in flocks and range over the bald mountain peaks in quest of such dainties as are to the pipit taste.
From Birds of the Rockies by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
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