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Description: | Call made by a meadow pipit recorded on Chobham Common, Surrey. The meadow pipit could be described as the classic 'little brown job', being a small brown bird with whitish outer tail feathers and a streaked breast. However it makes up for its dull looks with a very distinctive display song. Open country and particularly moorland are the favoured breeding habitat of the meadow pipit, and in upland areas it is by far the commonest bird. The song is delivered during an aerial display and consists of 'sweet-sweet-sweet' notes strung together, which is delivered as it parachutes steeply to the ground from a height of as high as 30 metres. The meadow pipit eats mainly insects such as flies, crane-flies, beetles, moths and spiders. The female bears responsibility for building the nest in amongst the ground vegetation but both parents feed the young and a second brood can be raised as chicks leave the nest after only a short period. Unfortunately for the meadow pipit, its nest is often the favoured choice for a parasitic cuckoo egg. The meadow pipit is a common bird with approximately 2,000,000 territories, but there has been a recent decline, which has been blamed on changes in agricultural practices. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Subjects: | Bird Farmland Wildlife sounds | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Williams, Aubrey John | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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