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==Description== This is a widespread and often abundant small [[pipit]], measuring {{convert|14.5β15|cm|in|frac=2|abbr=on}} in length and weighing {{convert|15β22|g|abbr=on}}. It is an indistinguishable-looking species on the ground, mainly brown above and buff below, with darker barring on most of its plumage; the tail is brown, with narrow white lateral edges. It has a thin bill and pale pinkish yellow legs; the rear claw is conspicuously long, longer than the rest of the rear toes. The call is a faint ''tsi-tsi''. The simple repetitive song is given in a short song flight.<ref name=Snow/><ref name=Hoyo/> Birds breeding in [[Ireland]] and western [[Scotland]] are slightly darker coloured than those in other areas, and are often distinguished as the [[subspecies]] ''A. p. whistleri'', though it intergrades clinally with [[Subspecies|nominate]] ''A. p. pratensis'' found in the rest of the species' range.<ref name=Snow/><ref name=Hoyo/> It is similar to the [[red-throated pipit]] ''A. cervinus'', which is more heavily barred and (in summer only) has an orange-red throat, and to the [[tree pipit]] ''A. trivialis'', which is slightly larger, less heavily streaked, and has stronger facial markings and a shorter rear claw. The song of the meadow pipit accelerates towards the end, while that of the tree pipit slows down.<ref name=Snow/><ref name=Hoyo/>
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