A bird of open ground at all seasons, American Pipit favors plowed fields, muddy shorelines, and areas of very short grass. It has a thin bill, deliberate walking space, and habit of bobbing its longish tail up and down. The bi...
American Pipit gave me a life bird. 99% of the time I go birding alone, so one time I was kind of taken aback when a more experienced birder referred to this bird as “pipp-it,” which sounds silly to me. I had always assumed it was pronounced “pipe-it.” Which one is correct?
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Wide-chord, birdlike wings permitted landings in 300-400'. POP: 1 [X6929], planned for entry in the Guggenheim competition, but was damaged beyond repair in a rough-field landing at St Albans VT.SchmidtBruno Hermann Schmidt/U S Aerial Navigation Co, Homestead NJ....
Since the first long-term trend analyses of North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data were completed more than 2 decades ago, grassland birds have been recognized as among the most steeply and persistently declining avian groups in North America (Knopf 1994; Herkert 1995; Peterjohn and Saue...
Sprague's pipitOil development in the Bakken shale region has increased rapidly as a result of new technologies and strong demand for fossil fuel. This region also supports a particularly high density and diversity of grassland bird species, which are declining across North America. We examined ...