Paramo Pipit

The paramo pipit is about 15 cm (5.9 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies A. b. bogotensis have a dusky to cinnamon-brown head with a buffy supercilium and a thin white eye-ring. Their upperparts are dusky to cinnamon-brown with bold buff and blackish streaks. Their wing coverts are dusky with buffy tips that show as two thin wing bars. Their flight feathers are dusky with buffy brown edges. Their tail is mostly dusky. The outermost pair of feathers have a whitish outer web and a buffy inner web and the next pair inward (T5) have a whitish tip. Voice: The paramo pipit sings during the aerial display, "a long, nasal, wheezy buzz followed by high, chattery notes, nyeeezzzzz, dziit-it, dziit-it, chit-it-it-it-it-it”. It sings a shorter and simpler version while perched on a rock or shrub.