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• n  a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage

• Three are occasional visitors to Alaska and the Aleutian Islands: the bristle-thighed curlew, the Siberian pipit, the sharp-tailed sandpiper.

• titlark
• lark

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• Bevan in News Wales
  Tim Bevan, who is joined for the estate walks by local bird expert Dave Stacey, said: "We are hoping to see the winter migrating birds such as fieldfare and redwing. Other big attractions should be red kites, mistle thrush, meadow pipit, nuthatch...