{"id":51459,"date":"2017-12-20T20:12:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T12:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=51459"},"modified":"2023-06-24T16:55:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T08:55:55","slug":"juvenile-blyths-pipit-or-paddyfield-pipit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2017\/12\/20\/juvenile-blyths-pipit-or-paddyfield-pipit\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Blyth&#8217;s Pipit or Paddyfield Pipit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitBl-jv-AmarSingh-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51460\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitBl-jv-AmarSingh-2.jpg\" alt=\"PipitBl-jv [AmarSingh]\" width=\"590\" height=\"496\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitBl-jv-AmarSingh-2.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitBl-jv-AmarSingh-2-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of us observed a Blyth&#8217;s Pipit (<em>Anthus godlewskii<\/em>) at this site in last year (rare migrant). I saw the bird on 2nd\u00a0January 2017 and so was on the lookout again. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitBl-jv-AmarSingh-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51461\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitBl-jv-AmarSingh-1.jpg\" alt=\"PipitBl-jv [AmarSingh]\" width=\"590\" height=\"460\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitBl-jv-AmarSingh-1.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitBl-jv-AmarSingh-1-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I spotted this odd juvenile\/immature bird among the Paddyfield Pipits. There is some gape still present and the bird is in moult but it was feeding independently. There were other juvenile Paddyfield Pipits (<em>Anthus rufulus malayensis<\/em>) around but I had no doubt about their ID. What caught my eye was the pattern of the median coverts. See this excellent write up by <a href=\"https:\/\/digdeep1962.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/07\/identification-of-paddyfield-richards-and-blyths-pipits-in-malaysia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Bakewell<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitBl-jv-AmarSingh-3.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51462\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitBl-jv-AmarSingh-3.jpg\" alt=\"PipitBl-jv [AmarSingh]\" width=\"590\" height=\"498\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitBl-jv-AmarSingh-3.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitBl-jv-AmarSingh-3-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pattern of the median coverts on this bird suggests a diamond shape with whitish edges. The bill looks appropriate and the crown adequately streaked but the lores are not pale enough.\u00a0I am very cautious as the bird is still young and it could just be moulting changes and I\u2019d expect an adult to migrate earlier.<br \/>\n\u201cAppreciate any opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitBl-jv-AmarSingh.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51463\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitBl-jv-AmarSingh.jpg\" alt=\"PipitBl-jv [AmarSingh]\" width=\"590\" height=\"498\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitBl-jv-AmarSingh.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitBl-jv-AmarSingh-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2010\/03\/11\/dato%E2%80%99-dr-amar-singh-hss-%E2%80%93-birdwatcher-extraordinarie\/\">Dato\u2019 Dr Amar-Singh HSS<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nIpoh, Perak, Malauysia<br \/>\n4th September 2017<\/p>\n<p>Location: Malim Nawar, Perak, Malaysia<br \/>\nHabitat: Ex-mining pools, fish farming, wetlands<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMany of us observed a Blyth&#8217;s Pipit (Anthus godlewskii) at this site in last year (rare migrant). I saw the bird on 2nd\u00a0January 2017 and so was on the lookout again. &#8220;I spotted this odd juvenile\/immature bird among the Paddyfield Pipits. There is some gape still present and the bird is in moult but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":51460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20],"tags":[761,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}