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[[Image:8242605-8535fg Sprague s Pipit.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by bobsofpa<br />Photo taken: Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, AZ, USA ]] | [[Image:8242605-8535fg Sprague s Pipit.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by bobsofpa<br />Photo taken: Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, AZ, USA ]] | ||
==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
| + | 10-15cm. Sexes similar. Brown and striped, thin bill, white outer tail feathers, crown, nape, and upperparts streaked black and buff, pale face with white eyering, upper breast finely streaked, two white wingbars, eyes dark brown, legs yellow or pinkish. | ||
==Distribution== | ==Distribution== | ||
| + | [[United States]] | ||
==Taxonomy== | ==Taxonomy== | ||
==Habitat== | ==Habitat== | ||
| + | Prairie and open grasslands. | ||
==Behaviour== | ==Behaviour== | ||
| + | The diet includes insects and spiders, as well as some seeds. | ||
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| + | It builds a cup woven of fine grasses which is placed on the ground. Some nests have canopies of long grasses, sometimes forming a complete dome. 4-6 pale whitish with brown blotches eggs are laid. | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
{{GSearch|Anthus+spragueii}} | {{GSearch|Anthus+spragueii}} | ||
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Revision as of 15:47, 17 June 2008
- Anthus spragueii
Identification
10-15cm. Sexes similar. Brown and striped, thin bill, white outer tail feathers, crown, nape, and upperparts streaked black and buff, pale face with white eyering, upper breast finely streaked, two white wingbars, eyes dark brown, legs yellow or pinkish.
Distribution
Taxonomy
Habitat
Prairie and open grasslands.
Behaviour
The diet includes insects and spiders, as well as some seeds.
It builds a cup woven of fine grasses which is placed on the ground. Some nests have canopies of long grasses, sometimes forming a complete dome. 4-6 pale whitish with brown blotches eggs are laid.
