Short-billed Pipit

The short-billed pipit is 14 to 14.5 cm (5.5 to 5.7 in) long and weighs about 20 g (0.71 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a blackish brown head with a whitish supercilium, a whitish eye-ring, and a black "moustache". Their upperparts are blackish brown with buffy brown feather edges that give a scaled appearance. Their wings are dusky with thin white edges on the primaries, buffy edges on the secondaries and tertials, and buffy edges on the coverts that show as two wing bars. Their tail is mostly dusky with much white on the outer two pairs of feathers. Voice: The short-billed pipit sings during its display flight, "an introductory broad-spectrum drawn-out buzz or rasp, followed by two short series of rapidly repeated musical notes: gleeeeeeeu-teedeleh-tleetleetlee or variation".