Description:

Small streaked pipit with rounded wings and slender bill, quite similar to Tree Pipit. Subtle differences from Tree are slimmer build, slimmer and weaker bill, and less boldly streaked breast but more boldly streaked flanks. Also lacks prominent white supercilium and distinct greenish edges to tertials.

Distribution:

Vagrant or rare winter visitor to extreme northwestern parts of Gilgit-Baltistan. Usually favors grassy lake margins or fields. Also in wide variety of open habitats, such as bogs, meadows, forest clearings and arable land upto 3000m.

Behavior:

Forages on ground in short vegetation. Walks or runs; picks prey items from ground and vegetation. Often in small to large flocks on passage and in non-breeding season. Mainly feeds on small invertebrates; also seeds. Wide range of invertebrates including, springtails, mayflies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, bugs, ants, larval and adult moths, snails, and worms etc.

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Range & Occurrence:

Resident Species

Summer Breeder

Winter Visitor

Passage Migrant

Distribution Map of Meadow Pipit in Gilgit-Baltistan (Status: )

Seasonal Occurrence of Meadow Pipit

Resources:

Birds of Pakistan: Helm Field Guides (R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
The Birds of Pakistan (T. J. Roberts)
Birds of the Indian Subcontinent (C. Inskipp, R. Grimmett & T. Inskipp)
Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide (P. Rasmussen & J. Anderton)
Birds of India: Collins Field Guide (N. Arlott)
Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan (S. Ali & S. D. Ripley)
Handbook of the Birds of the World (https://www.hbw.com)
The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th Edition
iNaturalist BoGB (inaturalist.org/projects/birds-of-gilgit-baltistan)
Birds of Gilgit-Baltistan (http://fb.me/birdsgb)

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