Pechora Pipit

The Pechora pipit is a small pipit that somewhat resembles a non-breeding red-throated pipit in plumage. It is heavily streaked brown above with whitish mantle stripes, with black markings on a white belly and buff breast below. It can be told from the red-throated pipit by its heavier bill, whiter mantle stripes and the contrast between the buff breast and white belly. It creeps in long grass and is reluctant to fly even when disturbed. (Wikipedia, general species account)

The species breeds in the East Palearctic tundra and densely vegetated areas near river banks, from the Pechora River to the Chukchi Peninsula, and also in Kamchatka and the Commander Islands, with a disjunct population much further south in northeastern China and southeastern Siberia. It is a long-distance migrant, moving in winter to Indonesia. The call is a distinctive electrical zip, though the species calls far less than most pipits. Robert Swinhoe first described it in 1863. (Wikipedia, general species account)