Meadow pipits are about 15cm tall. Their wings are olive brown with a dark brown stripe pattern. Their chest and abdomen are white with the same kind of pattern that can be seen more easily with a ...

Meadow pipit, Anthus pratensis (protonym, Alauda pratensis), also known locally as the mippit, photographed at Ouse Fen, Cambridgeshire, UK. Image: Richard Thomas/TRAFFIC, April 2008 (with permission) ...

Most birds I see are common and familiar, so I can usually name them. But every now and then a mystery individual appears, and begins to ring alarm bells: what on earth is that? That's what happened ...

THIS month I am going to continue with the subject of migration. But this month I’m talking about the meadow pipit, in relation to my local patch on Leopard Hill. The meadow pipit is a house ...

Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Kate Humble presents the meadow pipit. No-one would give the meadow pipit any prizes in a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Sixteen female Meadow Pipits were observed during the incubation period to test the hypothesis that incubation feeding by the male constitutes ...

The double whammy of climate change and intensive farming are making bird species vanish from parts of the UK, a new study finds. Birds that prefer the cold, such as the meadow pipit, the willow tit ...

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