Water Pipit
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Anthus spinoletta
Scarce & very local Winter Visitor from Southern & Central Europe with 190 per year in Britain, mostly between September-April.
Breeds in Southern Europe.
The sexes are similar although the Female has, on average, a greyer head.
Juveniles resembles the Non-breeding Adults, but are browner and more streaked above with prominent streaking on the underparts
The song is delivered from a perch or in flight, and consists of four or five blocks, each consisting of about half a dozen repetitions of a different short note.
In comparison, the European Rock Pipit's song is a sequence of about twenty tinkling cheepa notes followed by a rising series of thin gee calls, and finishing with a short trill.