pipit
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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
He was in and out of the United States by the first week of June and found his 3,000th species, a tawny pipit, in Turkey in the middle of that month.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2016
On a stone near by them a small mouse-coloured bird, a meadow pipit, made a noise, tick-tick, like the ferrule of a walking-stick on stone.
From The Tragic Bride by Francis Brett Young
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