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meadow pipit

noun

  1. a common European songbird, Anthus pratensis, with a pale brown speckled plumage: family Motacillidae (pipits and wagtails)


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It is, however, frequently accompanied by a small bird of another kind, said to be a Meadow Pipit.

These delicate footprints reproduce the long toes of the lark, and those are the tracks of the meadow pipit.

The nests in which the eggs of cuckoos are most frequently found are those of the meadow-pipit, hedge-sparrow, and reed-warbler.

Beginning with those that journey the shortest distance, we may notice first the Meadow Pipit.

Yellow Buntings are still in flocks upon the fields; the Meadow Pipit, yet gregarious, is upon the lowlands.

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