Paddyfield Pipit

Latin Name: 
Anthus rufulus
Size: 
15cm
Description: 

Sexes alike. Fulvous-brown above, with dark brown centres of feathers, giving a distinctive appearance; dark brown tail, with white outer feathers, easily seen in
flight; dull-fulvous below, streaked dark brown on sides of throat, neck and entire breast. The winter-visiting Tawny Pipit A. campestris usually lacks streaks on underbody while Blyth’s Pipit A. godlewskii is indistinguishable in field, except by its harsher call note. Pairs or several scattered on ground; run in short spurts; when disturbed, utters feeble note as it takes off; singing males perch on grass tufts and small bushes.

Habitat: 
grassland, marshy ground, cultivation
Food: 
insects, seeds, spiders.
Distribution: 
up to about 2,000m in outer Himalaya, south throughout India
Call: 
Call Description: 
thin tsip, tseep and tsip…tseep… calls; trilling song of breeding male.
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