Correndera Pipit

Anthus correndera

Least ConcernUncommonInvertebratesGrasslandCup nestSmall · 21 g

About the Correndera Pipit

The correndera pipit is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae, the wagtails and pipits. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, the Falkland Islands, Peru, Uruguay, and as a vagrant to Paraguay.

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The correndera pipit is 14 to 16 cm (5.5 to 6.3 in) long and weighs about 15 to 26 g (0.53 to 0.92 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a dusky head with a whitish supercilium, a whitish eye-ring, a thin blackish "moustache", and a blackish streak on the cheek. Their upperparts are dusky with heavy cinnamon-buff streaks and a white streak on each shoulder. Their wings are dusky with white edges on the primaries and buffy white edges on the coverts; the latter show as two wing bars. Voice: The correndera pipit sings during the flight display. One description of its song is a "cheerful, unstructured series of twittering, like fitfit-wrrrruh, fit-frit-oh-frút, and fit-frit-oh-wrrrruh"; the wrrrruh is a "toneless, nasal trill". Another description is "a variable, rich series of gurgling, warbling, and trilling phrases". Its call is "a rising, buzzy tjzee?".

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Where it lives

Regular range

When to see it

Peak activity in November · a variable species across most of its range

Easily confused with

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