Definition of "pipit" []

• Any of various widely distributed songbirds of the genus Anthus, characteristically having brownish upper plumage and a streaked breast. Also called titlark. (noun)

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• "These once common farmland birds, along with many others, including the meadow pipit, lesser spotted woodpecker and nutcracker, are now at their lowest levels across Europe since records began, according to a survey."
• "A meadow-pipit tsip-tsips from rock to rock while a buzzard mounts thermals on still wings and mews down at us."
• "The water pipit is the only species of bird that travels north to spend the winter in Britain."