A songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage.
1The pipit is found nowhere else and is the world's most southerly songbird.
2Behind me, I hear the piping of a meadow pipit.
3When first discovered it contained two pipit's eggs and the egg of a cuckoo.
4Moreover, they are confident it will save the South Georgia pipit from the threat of extinction.
5Martin said: The pipit is the flagship species.
6Gin they had a' fouchten as he pipit, there wad hae been anither tale to tell.
7The right-hand pipit soon veers off in the direction of White Edge, but the other remains.
8The meadow-pipit is, apparently, uncertain where he shall come down, wandering and irregular on his course.
9It is the call of the nightingale, and the cuckoo, the hawfinch, tree pipit and the lark.
10But this is the merlin's true, even disproportionate grasp as it dashes up behind a lark or pipit.
11The natives enumerate also the limau langga, limau kambing, limau pipit, limau sindi masam, and limau sindi manis.
12Facebook Twitter Pinterest A meadow pipit.
13The burong pipit resembles the sparrow in its appearance, habits, numbers, and the destruction it causes to the grain.
14The scene of the tragedy was the nest of a pipit, or titlark, on the ground beneath a heather-bush.
15The American pipit, or titlark, has a peculiar wavering flight when, after being flushed, it reluctantly leaves the ground.
16On the highest pastures we find, further, the alpine accentor (Accentor collaris) and the alpine pipit (Anthus spipoletta).