Water Pipit
Habitat and behaviour
Habitat: Watercress beds, marshes (winter).
Diet: Aquatic insects.
Best time to spot: Pinkish breast in spring.
When to look
Resident in the UK, so it can be found year-round. More on the season in Bird migration in Britain.
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Similar birds
- Red-throated Pipit · Marshes (rare passage)
- Blyth's Pipit · Coastal scrub (very rare)
- Buff-bellied Pipit · Coastal grass (vagrant)
- Eurasian Rock PipitUncommon · Rocky coasts
- Long-billed Pipit · Open ground (extreme vagrant)
- Meadow PipitCommon · Moors
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