: any of various small songbirds (family Motacillidae and especially genus Anthus) resembling the lark
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In Fairhaven, 25 American pipits on Shaw Road, five pectoral sandpipers on Shaws Cove Road, and two clapper rails and a saltmarsh sparrow.
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Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2023
But the birds migrating west were all adults, and climate change may have rerouted the pipit's migration patterns.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Nov. 2021
There were two American pipits and a Pacific loon at Andrews Point in Rockport.
—BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2020
Sightings at Nauset Spit in Orleans included a Lapland longspur, 3 marsh wrens, 5 American pipits, 21 Savannah sparrows, a yellow-breasted chat, and 3 bobolinks.
—BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2019
With the rats gone, conservationists expect to see an explosion in the number of albatrosses, skuas, terns, petrels, and South Georgia pipits and pintail ducks.
—Charlie Hamilton James, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
But since the rats were killed, the pipits have already responded, their numbers exploding now that their eggs and chicks are safe.
—National Geographic, 9 May 2018
Some of the species have declined even more: Meadow pipit populations, for example, fell by 68 percent.
—James Gorman, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2018
Meadow pipits, for example, have declined by 68 percent.
—Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 22 Mar. 2018
Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2023
But the birds migrating west were all adults, and climate change may have rerouted the pipit's migration patterns.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Nov. 2021
There were two American pipits and a Pacific loon at Andrews Point in Rockport.
—BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2020
Sightings at Nauset Spit in Orleans included a Lapland longspur, 3 marsh wrens, 5 American pipits, 21 Savannah sparrows, a yellow-breasted chat, and 3 bobolinks.
—BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2019
With the rats gone, conservationists expect to see an explosion in the number of albatrosses, skuas, terns, petrels, and South Georgia pipits and pintail ducks.
—Charlie Hamilton James, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
But since the rats were killed, the pipits have already responded, their numbers exploding now that their eggs and chicks are safe.
—National Geographic, 9 May 2018
Some of the species have declined even more: Meadow pipit populations, for example, fell by 68 percent.
—James Gorman, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2018
Meadow pipits, for example, have declined by 68 percent.
—Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 22 Mar. 2018
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imitative
First Known Use
1745, in the meaning defined above
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