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Another Pipit ID please (1 Viewer)

I'm a little confused here. Poor quality accepted but the bird in the photo has a brownish look on my laptop esp. the wings. Slightly overexposed maybe due to the afternoon sun but quite approximate to the birds' actual colour. Maybe I'm having color calibration problems. I dont have any more images either.
 
My first thought was Water Pipit - but I completely can see where Tim is coming from. Its funny in my notes on the only Citrine I've seen, it says, looks strangely like a Water Pipit!
 
I'll go with with Tim on this and will add Yellow Wagtail to the list. This looks very like a 1st winter M.f. beema.
Cheers!
sumit
 
Are we looking at the same picture? It looks like a water pipit to me! Look at the first water pipit pic in Oriental Bird Images - a dead ringer.

Rob
 
edenwatcher said:
Are we looking at the same picture? It looks like a water pipit to me! Look at the first water pipit pic in Oriental Bird Images - a dead ringer.

Rob

The malar stripe is the biggest clue that its a Wapit - it does look ever so Wag-like though
 
Jane Turner said:
The malar stripe is the biggest clue that its a Wapit - it does look ever so Wag-like though

Wow a Wapit !
My first WAgtail-piPIT hybrid? :)
Just kidding....

I'm quite sure its a pipit.
 
Tim Allwood said:
is it standing in a river/stream?

Tim, This bird is standing in water..well it is on my screen.

Does Water Pipit wade or shy away from wading?..serious question.

John.
 
Trying to find a pic of winter blakistoni wapit... and failing! They are pale and nealy unmarked. I've seen one that is so like this bird it could be twins - just can't find it now!


Not disputing too hard - just keeping the debate open.. I can't get past the fact this bird has the somewhat intangible feel of a Wapit!

The daft thing is that this would take about a pico second in the field!
 
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