Olive-backed Pipit
Olive-backed Pipit: Medium-sized pipit with finely streaked, olive-green upperparts. White underparts, chin, belly and undertail coverts. The sides and breast are pale brown with bold dark streaks. The eyebrow is buff-orange in front and white behind eye. The legs and feet are pink.
● Song:
"seep-seep-sia-sia", "tsee"
● Foraging & Feeding:
Olive-backed Pipit: Eats mainly insects, but takes some seeds, especially outside the nesting season; forages on the ground or in low trees, often working wet areas and shorelines of rivers, streams, lakes, and bogs.
● Breeding & nesting:
Olive-backed Pipit: Four or five light violet or gray eggs with dark blotches are laid in a bulky nest made of dried grass, hair, and moss, and built on the ground, sheltered by a bush or beside a grassy tussock. Incubation ranges from 12 to 13 days and is carried out by the female.
● Similar species:
Olive-backed Pipit: Pechora Pipit is smaller, stockier, whiter on underparts, has paired white streaks on back and black-streaked brown upperparts. Tree Pipit has more heavily streaked and browner back, and more distinct head pattern.