Blyth's Pipit

Blyth's pipit is a relatively large pipit, inconspicuous and mottled in shades of brown, white and black, and very like several other pipits, above all Richard's pipit. It differs from that species by being slightly smaller, with a shorter bill, legs and tail, a less upright posture and a somewhat clearer wing bar. A characteristic feature is that the core of the median covert feathers forms a blunt, not pointed, tip. (Swedish Wikipedia, general species account)

The song differs markedly from Richard's pipit's, with hard zret zret zret ending in a brighter rattling sound, and the contact call is a little purer and higher, recalling a yellow wagtail: pschio. It breeds from the eastern Altai east to northeast China, on dry mountain slopes, in arid farmland and on stony steppe, and moves to India for the winter, being seen in wetter places on migration. It eats small insects and other invertebrates and also seeds, picked from the ground. The name honours the Polish farmer and naturalist Wiktor Godlewski. (Swedish Wikipedia, general species account)