According to the legend, when the time came for birds to be given colours, the tree pipit was the last one on the list. There were only a few drops of paint left, which is why its feathers are not ...

Heathland, West Sussex: Tree pipit numbers are in sharp decline in England, and it is not clear why The soft, sandy soil is damp after the heavy overnight rain. I follow the narrow track downhill, ...

Cape Town - A rare sighting of a Tree Pipit in the Table Mountain National Park has been confirmed as more photographs of the small bird were taken over the past long weekend. Birder Herman Stadler ...

Meadow pipits are about 15cm tall. Their wings are olive brown with a dark brown stripe pattern. Their chest and abdomen are white with the same kind of pattern that can be seen more easily with a ...

Meadow pipit, Anthus pratensis (protonym, Alauda pratensis), also known locally as the mippit, photographed at Ouse Fen, Cambridgeshire, UK. Image: Richard Thomas/TRAFFIC, April 2008 (with permission) ...

A RARE bird has shown up at a popular nature reserve – 60 years to the day from its last sighting. The tree pipit visited the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds’ (RSPB) reserve at Lochwinnoch – ...

Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve Backshall presents the tree pipit. Tree pipits are small brown birds without any ...

Unlike other members of the pipit family, the madanga is a tree-dwelling species A "dramatic" shift in behaviour and appearance obscured the identity of two birds on remote tropical islands. The ...

A "dramatic" shift in behaviour and appearance obscured the identity of two birds on remote tropical islands. The forest-dwelling birds are members of the pipit and wagtail families, but were not ...