Water Pipit

The water pipit is a small ground-feeding songbird. In breeding plumage it has greyish-brown upperparts with weak darker streaking, a grey head crossed by a broad white eyebrow, pale pink-buff underparts, and white outer tail feathers. Winter birds become browner and more strongly streaked above, while the breast and flanks show light brown streaking on an otherwise white underside. The sexes are almost alike, and young birds resemble adults. (Wikipedia, general species account)

The species breeds in mountains from southern Europe east across the Palearctic to China. Many birds make short seasonal movements to lower elevations or wet open lowlands during winter. They collect small invertebrates from the ground or vegetation, sometimes catching insects in flight, and also eat some plant material. A cup nest is hidden on the ground beneath vegetation or placed in a cliff crevice. Four to six eggs hatch after roughly two weeks, and fledging follows another fourteen to fifteen days later. (Wikipedia, general species account)