Hi, people!
I am working on my pipits here, trying to understand their apperances better. Can you help with what makes you able to ID these, or explain why we can't be sure?
(1) Photo taken on grassland on an outer island on the western coast, in july. The "heavy" and clear drawings on the white breast and belly, and location, would suggest meadow pipit. Two questions. Is it common with such a big black patch on the breast? And the dark brown eyestripe from the bill to the eye? Neither of those traits features on the drawings or descriptions in my field guide?
The location (Ona, Norway) is known to have rare birds from time to time, thought more often in the migration seasons. (olive-backed pipits and pechora pipits are both listed there, for example).
(2) Another bird from the same location, also in july. There is virtually no trees on the island, so habitat not very suitable for tree pipit. But still, to me (not very trustworthy!) it sort of look like a tree pipit. The black drawings on the side of the belly is finer than those on the breast, and the bill/head-profile better match the "more wedge-like"-description of a tree pipit. But shouldn't there be more yellowish tones if it were a tree pipit? So is it perhaps still a meadow pipit?
(3) Photo taken on the Norwegian shoreline, on a spot with lots of seaweed popular for birds stopping by. Photo is taken in early October. Bad photo, but this is obviously a darker pipit. Can it be anything else than a rock pipit?
(4) Photo taken again in mainland western Norway in july. It sat on top of some shrub near a small forest area. Is the small white area to the right of the eye, almost on the back of the head, an indication of tree pipit?
(5) This bird, taken in a forest area in may, is less "pure white" underneath, but that might be a trick of the light. Any indiciton of which kind this is?
I am working on my pipits here, trying to understand their apperances better. Can you help with what makes you able to ID these, or explain why we can't be sure?
(1) Photo taken on grassland on an outer island on the western coast, in july. The "heavy" and clear drawings on the white breast and belly, and location, would suggest meadow pipit. Two questions. Is it common with such a big black patch on the breast? And the dark brown eyestripe from the bill to the eye? Neither of those traits features on the drawings or descriptions in my field guide?
The location (Ona, Norway) is known to have rare birds from time to time, thought more often in the migration seasons. (olive-backed pipits and pechora pipits are both listed there, for example).
(2) Another bird from the same location, also in july. There is virtually no trees on the island, so habitat not very suitable for tree pipit. But still, to me (not very trustworthy!) it sort of look like a tree pipit. The black drawings on the side of the belly is finer than those on the breast, and the bill/head-profile better match the "more wedge-like"-description of a tree pipit. But shouldn't there be more yellowish tones if it were a tree pipit? So is it perhaps still a meadow pipit?
(3) Photo taken on the Norwegian shoreline, on a spot with lots of seaweed popular for birds stopping by. Photo is taken in early October. Bad photo, but this is obviously a darker pipit. Can it be anything else than a rock pipit?
(4) Photo taken again in mainland western Norway in july. It sat on top of some shrub near a small forest area. Is the small white area to the right of the eye, almost on the back of the head, an indication of tree pipit?
(5) This bird, taken in a forest area in may, is less "pure white" underneath, but that might be a trick of the light. Any indiciton of which kind this is?
