The scene of the tragedy was the nest of a pipit, or titlark, on the ground beneath a heather-bush.
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The American pipit, or titlark, has a peculiar wavering flight when, after being flushed, it reluctantly leaves the ground.
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The melody of singing birds ranks as follows: The nightingale first, then the linnet, titlark, sky lark and wood lark.
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From this and the season, and the size and color of the bird, I knew he had seen the pipit or titlark.
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Blackbirds catch them on the ground, as do the killdeer, titlark, meadow lark, and others; while orioles hunt for them on the bolls.
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Behind me, I hear the piping of a meadowpipit.
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Facebook Twitter Pinterest A meadowpipit.
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During the summer the rich grassland provides cover for ground nesting birds such as the skylark, meadowpipit and smaller mammals, including hares and foxes.
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I saw a cuckoo being mobbed by two small birds, possibly meadowpipits.
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A loose flock of a dozen meadowpipits forages for caterpillars.
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Tom Wilmot Ballyshannon, Co Donegal Meadowpipits drive off the cuckoo if they find her near their nest.
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Facebook Twitter Pinterest Meadowpipits, willow tits and willow warblers have disappeared from sites in East Anglia due to crop farming.
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There are meadowpipits trilling high above and the sunshine is turning the whole 360-degrees of splendour around us into a Tolkien dreamscape.