Olive-Backed Pipit is an Indian Bird that bears a scientific name "Anthus hodgsoni" and migrates from Central Asia to India.
Category of Olive-Backed Pipit
Olive-Backed Pipit is a small passerine bird of the pipit genus.
Breeding of Olive-Backed Pipit
Olive-Backed Pipit breeds across South, north Central and East Asia, as well as in the northeast of European Russia.
Behaviour of Olive-Backed Pipit
Olive-Backed Pipit is a long-distance migrant moving in winter to southern Asia and Indonesia. Sometimes it is also called Indian Pipit or Hodgson`s Pipit, as well as Tree Pipit owing to its resemblance with the Tree Pipit. However, its back is more olive-toned and less streaked than that species, and its head pattern is different with a better-marked supercilium.
Breeding of Olive-Backed Pipit
Olive-Backed Pipit breeds from Himalayan Pakistan and India, westward through Nepal, into China, north to Gansu province, and eastwards through Korea to Japan, and north through north Central Asia into north-eastern Europe (European Russia). In winter, Olive-Backed Pipit has the broad breeding range southern region across Asia, from peninsular India, east to Southeast Asia and the Philippines.
Appearance of Olive-Backed Pipit
Olive-Backed Pipit has the greenish brown streaked with darker brown above. The supercilium, double wingbar and outer rectrices whitish are the salient features of Olive-backed pipit. Whitish to buff below streaked with dark brown on breast and flanks. The sexes are alike.
Call of Olive-Backed Pipit
The song of Olive-Backed Pipit is lark-like and uttered on the wing, similar to the tree pipit, but faster and higher pitched. It is a single tseep or spek, also similar to the tree pipit.
