{"id":54999,"date":"2018-08-08T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T16:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=54999"},"modified":"2023-06-24T16:54:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T08:54:05","slug":"upland-pipit-taking-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2018\/08\/08\/upland-pipit-taking-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Upland Pipit taking off\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Upland Pipit (<em>Anthus sylanus<\/em>) is a poorly known mountain species found between 1,200 m and 3,000 m in the Himalayas and south China. It is usually seen along steep, boulder-strewn slopes covered with low vegetation. During non-breeding periods it moves to lower altitudes.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?attachment_id=55000\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55000\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitUpland-taking-off-ShyamGhate-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"421\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitUpland-taking-off-ShyamGhate-1.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitUpland-taking-off-ShyamGhate-1-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These Upland Pipits take off with open wings, as is normal. Subsequently, as seen in the images above and below, a peculiar bunching of the secondaries and some tertials(?) is seen, during display through to landing. This was observed during more than one sorties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?attachment_id=55001\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55001\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitUpland-taking-off-ShyamGhate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"517\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitUpland-taking-off-ShyamGhate.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PipitUpland-taking-off-ShyamGhate-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not sure whether this is confined to this particular specimen or practiced by all Upland Pipits. And whether similar pattern is observed among other pipits or even other species?<\/p>\n<p>This was observed at Cheer Pheasant Point, Vinayak, Pangot, Himachal Pradesh, India on 1st May 2017<\/p>\n<p>Comments are welcome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shyam Ghate<\/strong><br \/>\nMumbai, India<br \/>\n30th July 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Upland Pipit (Anthus sylanus) is a poorly known mountain species found between 1,200 m and 3,000 m in the Himalayas and south China. It is usually seen along steep, boulder-strewn slopes covered with low vegetation. During non-breeding periods it moves to lower altitudes. These Upland Pipits take off with open wings, as is normal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":55000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[855],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54999"}],"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=54999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}