American Pipit Images, Facts and Information:
Anthus rubescens
- American Pipits are medium sized songbirds that have brown backs, brown stripes on their chests, white outer feathers on their tails, thin beaks and a pale line over their eyes. They bounce their tails up and down quite often.
- American Pipits are migratory.
- American Pipits during the breeding season can be found in alpine and arctic tundra and during migration they prefer mudflats, plowed fields, marshes, coastal beaches and rivers.
- American Pipits eat insects and seeds.
- American Pipits lay 3 to 7 eggs which hatch in 13 to 15 days. The female incubates and raises the young, they are monogamous.
- American Pipits have also been called “Water Pipits” and “Buff-bellied Pipits”.
- American Pipits live at least 4 years.
I hope you enjoy viewing my American Pipit photos.
American Pipit at sunrise
Title: American Pipit at sunrise
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 10/15/2015
American Pipit at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge
Title: American Pipit at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge
Location: Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 3/24/2014
American Pipit on Migration
Title: An American Pipit on Migration
Location: Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 3/24/2014
Female American Kestrel with Pipit feathers on her bill
Title: Female American Kestrel with Pipit feathers on her bill
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 12/8/2013
Female American Kestrel dropping her prey
Title: Female American Kestrel dropping her prey (dead American Pipit)
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 12/8/2013
American Pipit at Farmington Bay
Title: American Pipit at Farmington Bay
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 11/3/2008
American Pipit in early morning light
Title: American Pipit in early morning light
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 11/3/2008
American Pipit in nonbreeding plumage
Title: American Pipit in nonbreeding plumage
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 11/3/2008