Olive-backed pipit

Appearance

* Size: Sparrow+
⤷  Appearance: Greenish brown streaked with darker brown above. Supercilium, double wingbar and outer rectrices whitish. Whitish to buff below streaked with dark brown on breast and flanks. Sexes alike.
⤷  Habits: Seen singly or pairs. Runs about on the ground in search of food and flies up into trees when disturbed. Flight jerky and undulating.
⤷  Call: Song lark-like and uttered on the wing, similar to the tree pipit, but faster and higher pitched. A single ''tseep'' or ''spek'', also similar to the tree pipit.
⤷  Food: Insects, grass and weed seeds.
⤷  Food: Largely insects, but will also take seeds.

Distribution

* Summer: from Himalayan Pakistan and India, westward through Nepal, into China, north to Gansu province, and eastwards through Korea to Japan, and north through north central Asia into north-eastern Europe . Occasionally a rare vagrant in western Europe. Breeds up to 4500m in eastern Nepal.
⤷  Winter: Broad southern region across Asia, from peninsular India, east to Southeast Asia and the Philippines.
⤷  Habitat: Affects open country. Wintering in evergreen woodland, Summers in groves and wooded biotope.

Defense

* Season: May to July.
⤷  Nest: a cup of moss and grass placed on the ground under a tuft of grass or boulder. open woodland and scrub.
⤷  Eggs: 3–5, usu. 4, dark brown, spotted darker. Usually two broods are raised.