Anthus rubescens (Water Pipit) 6-7″ (15-18 cm). A slender, brown, sparrow-sized bird of open country. Bill slender; underparts buffy with streaks; outer tail feathers white; legs black. Walks, bobbing its tail almost constantly. In flight, dips up and down. Learn the note--Pipits are usually detected as they fly over.
Voice: Note, a thin jeet or jee-eet. In aerial flapping song flight, chwee chwee chwee chwee chwee chwee chwee.
Range: Colder parts of N. Hemisphere. Winters to El Salvador, n. Africa, s. Asia.
Habitat: Tundra, alpine slopes; in migration and winter, plains, bare fields, shores.




