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American Buff-bellied Pipit - identification criteria

By Charlie December 18, 2007 4 comments

There were at least five American Buff-bellied Pipits Anthus rubescens rubescens recorded in Western Europe this autumn (three of them in the UK), and birding magazines and fora have been going into the ID criteria in some detail. On geographical proximity alone the assumption has to be that most (if not all) of the Buff-bellieds [...]