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