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Description:

Seen this lonely bird sitting on a log early in the morning. Paddyfield Pipit is a small passerine bird in the pipits and wagtail family. It is a resident breeder in open scrub, grassland and cultivation in southern Asia east to the Philippines. Although among the few breeding pipits in the Asian region, identification becomes difficult in winter when several other species migrate into the region.

Habitat:

Near the beach.

Species ID Suggestions

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I am not sure too about rice fields Emma. Most of the spottings are either in forests or in open fields of Bajra or Bird sanctuary. Atul is an expert when it comes to fields. Great info, thanks.

Thankyou Satyen. In San Fransisco ,they are paying farmers with rice paddy fields to facilitate migrating birds. Rice field are also recommended as a good place for wildlife pictures. i am not sure how that works ,unless you wade thru them! Football fields are recommended for mushroom spottings,because they are regularly fertilized to maintain the green lawn

Emma I love your collection of birds. Usually these birds feel lonely when alone and some are least concerned.

@ Satyen , i like to take pictures of solo birds. Specially after the rains. i found a finch the other day . it had the most melodious and melancholy calls. Probably felt lonely.

Thanks Anjali.

AnjaliAnantharam

Nice photograph..and nice information ...

Thanks Emma.

cute!

Welcome sir, still loads to learn from you. Malcolm maybe there were light streaks and we were unable to see them. Thanks for suggesting the birdforum site. I got many unidentifed birds identified there.

Malcolm Wilton-Jones

I guess there must be streaks then, just that the sun made them impossible to see.

Thanks For updating !! learnt a lot from this spotting of yours

Changed Id as per suggestion of Atul sir and birdforum users.

Thanks for your suggestion Malcolm. I will put it there. By the way our Guru of bird watching: Atul told me today that it has to be some form of Paddyfield Pipit as he has seen loads of them around in the area where this one was spotted. Will start research on Paddyfield Pipit, maybe its a juve male or female?

Malcolm Wilton-Jones

It might be worth sending a link to your picture to http://www.birdforum.net/ , you will need to register but they are quick with their answers.

Yes, Malcolm it might be possible. Will look into it later in the day or tomorrow. Thanks a lot for the help.

Malcolm Wilton-Jones

I've just been looking at another lark-like bird with no streaks, seen in Philippines, and I think that might be a Greater Short-toed Lark. Is it possible yours is also?

Even more confused because even Juvenile Richard's Pipit has the streaks.

I think I will have to rule out Blyth's Pipit because everywhere that I saw on the net I could not see any Juveniles without the streak. Still searching.

Thanks for the eye opener Malcolm, I am now searching for more juvenile Blyth's and Richard's Pipit's photos to confirm.

Malcolm Wilton-Jones

(http://orientalbirdimages.org/search.php?Bird_ID=2092&Bird_Image_ID=15282&Bird_Family_ID=&p=21) I'm trying to link directly, you might need to paste from inside the brackets

Malcolm Wilton-Jones

My book says a Blyth's Pipit has a well-streaked breast, but I don't know if this applies to juveniles, which this appears to be. Check this out: http://orientalbirdimages.org/search.php?Bird_ID=2092&Bird_Image_ID=15282&Bird_Family_ID=&p=21 lots of pics

Thanks. I will ID it as Blyth's Pipit till something else comes up.

No worries, i reckon its blyth's pipit too

Steven, blyth's is as close as I could get. Thanks for your efforts.

Malcom there were no streaks. Thanks for your interest. Thanks Sachin.

Malcolm Wilton-Jones

Can you recall if it had any streaks on the breast as the sun and birds position make it difficult to see.

it seems like Juvenile bird

The feather colouring of the ear seems too strong for blyth's??? I reckon we need an expert right now.

yeah, i agree with the tail being too long for the richard's and paddyfield's pipit, still looking..........

Richard's and Paddyfield, both have longer tails I guess. Tawny seems out of question. Could be Blyth's Pipit? http://www.google.co.in/search?q=Blyth's+Pipit&hl=en&biw=1024&bih=509&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=f1fCTvTJCc7rrQfQq4DLCw&ved=0CCsQsAQ phew, very confusing.

Thanks for your help Steven. Confused between Richard's, Paddyfield and Tawny Pipit. Still looking.

This is a species of pipit, judging by the long back claw. Im finding it hard to distinguish between species but wikipedia has a complete pipit species list in india, see this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_of_India#Whistlers_and_allies My best guess is the Richard's Pipit- which ive seen in Australia

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