American Pipit

American Pipit

The American Pipit is a bird of sparrow sized which prefers open, damp, treeless areas. These birds are often found in groups on the ground and its unique and identified from its wagging tail. It is brow faced, crown and has dark streaks on the breast and in flanks. It has white streak above eye and has less heavily streaked underparts and upperparts are grayer during spring and summer. The incubation period for eggs have 13-15 day and fledging occurs in 13-15 days. The nest of it’s an open cup of grass and twigs which is built on the ground.

Interesting facts:

They nourish on eating insects on the ends of tundra puddles, and in alpine meadows they visit unmelted snowbanks. Warm air rising from valleys under the transports insects to high elevation; most of these die and are frozen in snowbanks, giving food for the pipits.