Pipit ID - Sri Lanka (1 Viewer)

[PhilB40]

A couple of photos of what I assume are different individual birds taken at different times in February 2017 at Yala. Currently I have concluded they are Blyths Pipit, would this be correct?

 

[Grahame Walbridge]

No Phil, all Paddyfield Pipits IMO.

Upperparts too sparsely marked, bill structure, median covert and head/face pattern wrong, especially those rather uniformly dark ear coverts.+|dark loral stripe visible in JPG's 3662 & 2793 and long hind claw visible in JPG 5445.

Some very useful tips in a series of articles by Dave Bakewell https://digdeep1962.wordpress.com/?s=Deep+pipit+id

Grahame

 

[PhilB40]

No Phil, all Paddyfield Pipits IMO.

Upperparts too sparsely marked, bill structure, median covert and head/face pattern wrong, especially those rather uniformly dark ear coverts.+|dark loral stripe visible in JPG's 3662 & 2793 and long rather straight hind claw visible in JPG 5445.

Some very useful tips in a series of articles by Dave Bakewell https://digdeep1962.wordpress.com/?s=Deep+pipit+id

Grahame

Many thanks for the information and Advice.

Phil