Buff-bellied Pipit

Pacific Water Pipit ( Anthus rubescens )

The Pacific Water Pipit ( Anthus rubescens ), also known as Pacific or Pacific water Pieper Pieper, is a small passerine bird in the family of the Wagtail. He lives in North America, an Asian subspecies Anthus rubescens japonicus lives in Japan, China, Korea and Eastern Siberia. The species is recognized as a separate species only a few years, she was formerly considered together with two other species as a subspecies of Water Pipit.

Features

Pacific Water Pipit are 15-16 cm long. The birds are above and greyish brown, beak and legs are dark. The outer tail feathers are white. In breeding plumage the entire bottom is warm beige, the chest is often dashed slightly dark. In Plain dress breast and flanks are dashed significantly diffuse, the belly is whitish. A. r. japonicus is the upper side dark and gray, the legs are reddish brown.

Distribution and habitat

He lives in North America, in the summer in Greenland, Baffin Island, Alaska, in Canada, in British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, along the coast of Hudson Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador in the north of the peninsula. In the United States, it occurs along the Rocky Mountains. Pacific Water Pipit breed in the Arctic tundra, the further south populations living high in the mountains.

Hiking

The migratory bird spends the winter in the southern U.S., the Bahamas, Mexico and Central America. In winter, they will stay in the vicinity of water bodies and fields. The species has been repeatedly demonstrated in Western Europe, but here is an extremely rare exception.