Olive-Backed Pipit or something else ? (1 Viewer)

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Spotted_Bigbird

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• May 15, 2019

• #1

Hi fellow birders,

I saw this bird near Nainital, Uttrakhand, India on the 13th of April.
My guess is that it is an olive-backed pipit (Anthus hodgesoni) on migration. The strong eyebrow-stripe suggests it is not a tree pipit.

Can anyone hekp me make a certain determination ?

Thanks !

 

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KenM

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• May 15, 2019

• #2

Tree Pipits Winter in Africa, during April they would be in transit to Europe, OBP for me.

Cheers

 

tconzemi

Tom

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• May 15, 2019

• #3

face pattern including white spot behind cheeks and olive mantle perfect for Olive-backed Pipit

 

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Spotted_Bigbird

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• May 15, 2019

• #4

Thanks for the replies !

 

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Grahame Walbridge

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• May 15, 2019

• #5

KenM said:

Tree Pipits Winter in Africa, during April they would be in transit to Europe, OBP for me.

Cheers

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Ken, Asian population winters in S.Asia.

Grahame

 

KenM

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• May 15, 2019

• #6

Grahame Walbridge said:

Ken, Asian population winters in S.Asia.

Grahame

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Didn’t realise they went that Far East Grahame, now where’s that range map.:eek!:

 

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Grahame Walbridge

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• May 15, 2019

• #7

KenM said:

Didn’t realise they went that Far East Grahame, now where’s that range map.:eek!:

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https://www.hbw.com/species/tree-pipit-anthus-trivialis IOC (and Alstrom) do not recognise either schlueteri or sibricus as valid ssp. so slight are the differences from nominate.

Grahame