Listen to the Meadow pipit
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About the Meadow pipit
The Meadow pipit is a bird in the family Motacillidae (order Passeriformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”. Adults have a wingspan of about 26 cm and weigh around 2 g.
What does the Meadow pipit sound like?
Bird vocalisations are usually divided into songs – longer, often complex phrases used to defend territory and attract mates, sung mostly by males in the breeding season – and calls: short, simple sounds for contact, alarm, begging or flight.
The recordings here are labelled as call and flight call. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis) is a small passerine bird that breeds throughout much of the Palearctic, from south-eastern Greenland and Iceland east to just east of the Ural Mountains in Russia, and south to central France and Romania; an isolated population also occurs in the Caucasus Mountains. It is migratory over most of its range, wintering in southern Europe, North Africa, and south-western Asia, but is resident year-round in western Europe, although even here many birds move to the coast or lowlands in winter.
Related birds in the genus Anthus
More from the family Motacillidae
Frequently asked questions
What does a Meadow pipit sound like?
You can hear 3 recordings of the Meadow pipit on this page, including its call and flight call. Bird vocalisations are usually divided into songs – longer, often complex phrases used to defend territory and attract mates, sung mostly by males in the breeding season – and calls: short, simple sounds for contact, alarm, begging or flight.
Is the Meadow pipit endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the Meadow pipit as “least concern”.
What family does the Meadow pipit belong to?
The Meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis) belongs to the family Motacillidae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources & credits
- Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis) (W1CDR0001526 BD4) – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call · Mont-Dore, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France by Marie-Lan Taÿ Pamart – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Flight call · Kallvik, Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland by Hannu Varkki – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q26956 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Meadow pipit – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Andreas Trepte – CC BY-SA 2.5