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Olive-backed Pipit

Anthus hodgsoni

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Illustration of Olive-backed Pipit (Anthus hodgsoni)

The Olive-backed Pipit is an Asian pipit that regularly appears in small numbers in western Alaska and occasionally as a vagrant on the Pacific Coast. It has bright olive-green upperparts with fine streaking and a pale buff supercilium. Its two-note 'tseep' call gives it away overhead during migration.

Habitat
Open forests and tundra edges in Asia; rare vagrant to Alaska and West Coast
Diet
Insects and seeds
How common
Rare

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