pipit
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pipit
First recorded in 1760–70; imitative
Example Sentences
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They include: the Sprague’s pipit, a northern grassland songbird, that’s lost more than 75% of its population since 1970.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2023
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
He’d given up listing, but in one of his nightly recaps he told the amusing story of his desperation and failure to find a pipit on his first trip to South Georgia.
From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016
He was in and out of the United States by the first week of June and found his 3,000th species, a tawny pipit, in Turkey in the middle of that month.
From Slate • Jan. 8, 2016
The Indian pipit affects open country and seems never to perch in trees.
From Birds of the Indian Hills by Dewar, Douglas
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