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What the Meadow Pipit sounds like
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This is a widespread and often abundant small pipit, measuring 14.5–15 cm (5+1⁄2–6 in) in length and weighing 15–22 g (0.53–0.78 oz). It is an indistinguishable-looking species on the ground, mainly brown above and buff below, with darker barring on most of its plumage; the tail is brown, with narrow white lateral edges. It has a thin bill and pale pinkish yellow legs; the rear claw is conspicuously long, longer than the rest of the rear toes. The call is a faint tsi-tsi. The simple repetitive song is given in a short song flight.
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When to see the Meadow Pipit
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Meadow Pipit
The map shades 76 countries with regular records, and 5 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Taiwan, India, South Korea, Japan, Turkmenistan.
About the Meadow Pipit
The meadow pipit is a small passerine bird that breeds throughout much of the Palearctic, from south-eastern Greenland and Iceland east to just east of the Ural Mountains in Russia, and south to central France and Romania; an isolated population also occurs in the Caucasus Mountains. It is migratory over most of its range, wintering in southern Europe, North Africa, and south-western Asia, but is resident year-round in western Europe, although even here many birds move to the coast or lowlands in winter.
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Easily confused with
American PipitAnthus rubescensLike most other pipits, the American pipit is an undistinguished-looking species which usually can be seen to run around on the ground.
Tree PipitAnthus trivialisThis is a small pipit that resembles the meadow pipit.
European Rock PipitAnthus petrosusThe European rock pipit is 16.5–17 centimetres (6.5–6.7 in) long and weighs 18–32.5 grams (0.63–1.15 oz).
Side by side: American Pipit vs Meadow Pipit · Meadow Pipit vs Tree Pipit · European Rock Pipit vs Meadow Pipit
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