Water Pipit

Latin Name:

Anthus spinoletta

Category:

Size:

15cm

Description:

Greyish dark-legged pipit. Prominent supercilia and pale lores. In breeding plumage grey head, browner back and plain pinkish-white underparts. In non-breeding plumage is lightly streaked below, greyer above. Less heavily streaked than Rosy and Red-breasted. Similar Buff-breasted is less streaked. Feeds in loose groups.

Habitat:

Inhabits marshes, wet cultivation and the edges of freshwater.

Distribution:

Scarce winter visitor to lowlands and foothills of Pakistan and north India south to Rajasthan.