Pipit news
02 May 2013
Tree Pipits, complete with their characteristic parachuting display flight and distinctive song, are appearing back on their breeding grounds. Typing 'Tree Pipit' into the BirdTrack map search box quickly reveals this summer-visiting species' distribution: primarily northern and western Britain, the New Forest and the Brecks of East Anglia.
Meanwhile, the British Birds Rarities Committee (BBRC) have just announced that they will no longer assess records of Olive-backed Pipit. This species (sometimes called Indian Tree Pipit) is closely related to Tree Pipit but has a more easterly breeding distribution, typically occuring in Britain and Ireland as a scarce late autumn vagrant. Olive-backed Pipit records will now be assessed by local rarities committees instead, and the BirdTrack thresholds have been adjusted accordingly.
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