tawny pipit

British

noun

a small sandy-brown European bird, Anthus campestris , of the wagtail family; an irregular migrant to some parts of Britain

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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.

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