meadow pipit

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

It was a meadow pipit, a protected bird in China, and an important "indicator species" - that means if its numbers are thriving, so is its environment.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

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

Birds like the meadow pipit and skylark use the heather for nesting, and it is also a source of food for the red grouse.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2022

Researchers found that meadow pipit birds produce few males if land near their nests is either grazed heavily or not at all, with light grazing bringing more males.True - it's a New Zealand native bird.

From BBC • May 12, 2011

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 Young, Francis Brett