Musing on rendezvous with rosy pipits (Anthus roseatus)-a species of montane regions-while hiking in high altitudes of Uttarakhand, India.
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Pipits, the rarer kind…
Pipits are ubiquitous, and pipits are confusing… among conspecifics and congeners like larks, they mercilessly expose the novice birder… drab plumage, scrappy flight, there’s nothing to make them stand out, one muses, but for that restive disposition they move around with, bustling busybodies rummaging through the grounds, loath to fly and trying to compensate by …