Pipit ID Please!

[Matt_IOM]

Rock or Meadow? I'm thinking Rock but I'm never sure!!

Best wishes,
Matt.

[Matt_IOM]

Photo would help!



Matt.

[GlendaleGuy]

Yes, Rock Pipit. You'd have known for sure if you'd heard it call, as it is distinctly different to meadow pipit.

[ChrisJB]

Pale legs would suggest Meadow Pipit to me, though this isn't conclusive in isolation. If I could see the spotting on the front I'd do better. Meadow Pipits have clean, crisp spots and warmer tones. Rock, have fuzzier more diffused spotting and colder, greyer tones. So whilst I'd say Meadow, I can't be 100 per cent.

Regards, Chris

[Hedge Witch]

I wondered this. I tried to work it out from the length of the backward-pointing claws - these are very long in the Meadow. But I didn't know about the Rock, and I couldn't tell that well anyway

I wondered if you had anymore shots, Matt?

[Andy Warne]

The green tones, plain face, and pink legs suggest Meadow Pipit to me.

[Hedge Witch]

Matt, you have another similar thread where the bird in question is a Rock Pipit:
Confirmation of ID - Rock Pipit?

After viewing this, my money's now on it being the same species.

[Matt_IOM]

Here's another couple of shots of the same bird. I looked at that thread you mentioned Hedge Witch, it's the leg colour that is confusing me - maybe it is just the sunlight??





Matt.

[Hedge Witch]

OK, I was wrong - that's a Meadow Pipit The spots are very distinct, the pale legs add further proof.

[GlendaleGuy]

Yes, it is a meadow pipit. It was the seeming bill length in your first photo that put me off track.