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Another puzzling Pipit (1 Viewer)

Darrell Clegg

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I don't need an ID, but how many pipits have you seen like this?

This Rock Pipit has been hanging around Hannafore most of the winter but I have only just managed to get a photo of it that does it justice.

has anyone any idea what race of Rock Pipit is this brown with such well defined streaking? kleinschmidti and meinertzhageni should be darker than petrosus I've included a photo of littoralis taken on the same day to show the difference.

Does anyone have any expericence of the French forms - ponens and immutabilis said to be paler and browner above and paler below with less distinct dark streaks than petrosus


Darrell
 

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It does look very pale for a Rock Pipit, though I have no experience of the French forms. What colour were the outer tail feathers?

Stuart
 
Stuart, Jane,

The outer tail feathers are the usual grey, and the rump is the same as the mantle and scapulars - sort of golden brown rather than chestnut.

Darrell
 
If this bird was one of those Rocks that showed white outer webs, with a mantle that brown it would be passed off as a Water Pipit I suspect!
 
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