pipit

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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

O o Pullus pipit, pi pi The Chicken peepeth.

From The Orbis Pictus by Hoole, Charles