Bird notable for walking rather than hopping

Usage examples of pipit.

Pierce said as the Pipit whirred softly down to the roof of the Holiday Inn in downtown Los Alamitos.

Nor do the long-drawn notes of the nightingale, nor even the jolly cuckoo, nor the tree pipit, no, nor even the soft coo of the turtle-dove and the smell of the May flower.

He would not have gone so far as to say that he had the pipit was more a vague sense of discomfort.

It was a peaceful spot, where few would pass save a grazing sheep or two, a meadow pipit, a foraging vole.

Larks and pipits were everywhere on the steppes, willow grouse, ptarmigan, and partridges, sand grouse and great bustards, and beautiful demoiselle cranes, bluish-gray with black heads and white tufts of feathers behind the eyes.

I lay a long time amid the fern, with bees humming around me and pipits calling, and an occasional buzzard or peregrine hovering in the blue, thinking precisely the same thoughts that I used to have in France the day before a big action.

I searched it with my glass and could see no movement except pipits, and a curlew by a patch of bog.

Only pipits broke the silence, only a circling merlin made movement in a spell-bound world.

A tree pipit took fright when it saw him and flew erratically to the top of the milkwood entangled with the strangler fig.

Pipit curved away from the skeletal gantries of Mojave Verde, back toward the coast.