Examples of pipit in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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 See More

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