Richard's Pipit

Richard's pipit is a large pipit, 17–20 centimetres long, weighing 25–36 grams, with a wingspan of 29–33 centimetres. It is slender and often stands very upright, with long yellow-brown legs, a long tail with white outer feathers, a long dark bill with a yellowish base to the lower mandible, and a long, fairly straight hindclaw. On the ground it is undistinguished, mainly brown above and pale below with dark streaks on the upperparts and breast, but the face is strongly marked with pale lores and supercilium and dark eyestripe, moustachial and malar stripes. (Wikipedia, general species account)

It breeds in open grasslands of the East Palearctic, in southern Siberia, Mongolia, parts of Central Asia and northern, central and eastern China. It is a long-distance migrant, wintering in open lowlands of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, with records as far south as Sri Lanka, Singapore and northern Borneo. It is a scarce passage migrant in Korea and Japan, and a small part of the population moves west each autumn, appearing as a rare but regular vagrant in Europe. (Wikipedia, general species account)