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meadow pipit (1 Viewer)
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Simon Wates
Well-known member
Hindclaw looks right for Meadow as does everything else to me.
MTem
Well-known member
T'was me that suggested John might want to seek confirmation here ... my comments on Gallery below
Hmmm.. where and when was it taken and have you any photos of its back/rump. It does have some characteristics of a first winter Red-throated Pipit - all white base colour to belly and flanks, what looks to be whitish mantle stripes, clear white edges to tertials, full thin eye ring - but I don't have enough experience of them to be sure, and Meadow pipits can look very pale and 'washed out' later in summer.
Might be worth posting on the ID forum.
Hmmm.. where and when was it taken and have you any photos of its back/rump. It does have some characteristics of a first winter Red-throated Pipit - all white base colour to belly and flanks, what looks to be whitish mantle stripes, clear white edges to tertials, full thin eye ring - but I don't have enough experience of them to be sure, and Meadow pipits can look very pale and 'washed out' later in summer.
Might be worth posting on the ID forum.
Simon Wates
Well-known member
I'd considered RTP - mainly due to the contrasty mantle and as you say, white base colour to underparts. But to me the head pattern looks rather plain for RTP and I would have expected a paler and more pink leg colour..... Some Meadows do lack the typical buffish tones to the underparts.
I'm likely wrong - especially as I've explained myself in some detail! :-O
I'm likely wrong - especially as I've explained myself in some detail! :-O
Remember that RT Pipit has a long hind claw as well. Date and location will help a lot on this, but that back and flanks do look very streaked... but Icelandic/NW Meadow Pipits can be more pale and streaky... not just in late summer. There’s some pale non olive birds moving through Lancashire at the moment.
Haningfield res 13/02/18
RafaelMatias
Unknown member
Are there any more photos of this bird, even if out of focus?
