meadow pipit scientific name anthus pratensis

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Meadow pipit with the scientific name of (Anthus pratensis). Royalty Free Stock Photo

Meadow Pipit Scientific name: Anthus pratensis

The name "pipit", first documented by Thomas Pennant in 1768, is onomatopoeic, from the call note of this species. Old folk names, no longer used, include "chit lark", "peet lark", "tit lark", and "titling" these refer to its small size and superficial similarity to a lark.The meadow pipit is a small passerine bird, which breeds in much of the Palearctic, from southeastern 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.