Features& Description
The Meadow Pipit, Latin name Anthus pratensis, is an insectivorous, granivorous bird with a 25 cm wingspan.
Its plumage is olive-brown-gray and beigeish-white, more or less striped.
Its beak is pointed and thin, and its head is diffusely patterned, with a barely defined eyebrow.
Throat and breast are mottled brown on a dirty white background. The flanks are slightly brown.
Habitat(Biotope)
The Meadow Pipit is an inhabitant of open environments. It can be found in mountain heaths, maritime meadows, pastures, peat bogs, marshes and beaches.
Behavior& habits
The Meadow Pipit is a partial migrant, its migration stopping in western and southern Europe.
It spends most of its time on the ground, foraging for insects and seeds, sometimes perched on poles or power line wires.
Reproductionand immature
The Meadow Pipit builds its nest of mosses and dried twigs on the ground beneath a large clump of grass.
The female lays between 4 and 6 eggs, and the young leave the nest before they can fly.
Cryor Voice
The Meadow Pipit has a characteristic high-pitched call, often in flight, “ist ist ist”, fine and a little excited.
Its alarm call, “sitt-itt”, is doubled.
A songbird, it emits series of rapidly repeated, fine, high-pitched sounds, with repeated patterns “zi zi zi zi zi zi zi zi zu-zu-zu-zu-zu-zu-zu-svisvisvisvi tuy tuy tuy tii-svia”.
On the ground, he shouts in rapid succession “zi zi zi zi zi…”
The Pipit Farlouse
Meadow Pipit
