Olive-Backed Pipit

A streaky, olive-toned pipit that walks and runs on open ground in short grass, forest edges and cultivated fields across its wide Asian breeding and wintering range, pumping its tail as it forages for insects. It is most easily located by its distinctive thin, buzzy flight call given as it flushes, then often perches briefly in a low tree or bush before dropping back to the ground. Migration periods and winter, when birds forage in loose flocks on open fields and paddies, are the most reliable times to see it.