For birdwatching, go to Lama Grande, on the Montesinho Mountain plateau between the villages of França and Montesinho, the only place in Portugal where the Water Pipit lives and nests.

The Eurasian Rock Pipit is almost exclusively a coastal bird.

The Eurasian Rock Pipit is almost exclusively a coastal bird.

The Eurasian Rock Pipit nests near the rocky coasts and on islands with low vegetation.

On the wintering grounds in Netherlands, the Eurasian Rock Pipit feeds almost exclusively on molluscs Assiminea grayana, a small conical shell.

Birdwatchers will not be disappointed here, with francolin, golden pipit and Somali ostrich just a few amongst the many, many species present.

The population of the meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis), a migratory songbird, has fallen by nearly 70 percent in this century.

The Meadow Pipit is usually common or even very common in its range.

The Meadow Pipit is mainly resident or partial migrant in W Europe, where the species performs locally some altitudinal movements in winter.

Just some of the species that have fallen by at least a third include the common white throat, the ortolan bunting and the Eurasian skylark, whilst the meadow pipit, a migratory song-bird, has declined by a huge 70%.

I thought it would be difficult to make it out from the Meadow Pipit, even though I'm not sure this species lives on Madeira, but actually it was quite easy.

In contrast, migrating birds or birds which are apparently resting (e.g. a Tree Pipit in July in a field in the Central Plateau) shouldn’t get an Atlas code.

Status report on the Sprague's Pipit Anthus spragueii in Canada.

Sprague's Pipits winter in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

Sprague's Pipits overwinters in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

The Buff-bellied Pipit observed in the Camargue in December 2018 © F. Veyrunes

Buff-bellied Pipit distribution is disjointed, with populations that breed in North America, and others in northern Asia.

The bird observed was a Buff-bellied Pipit (Anthus rubescens), a passerine species, which had only been previously sighted in France on two occasions, in Brittany.

We were still walking in Harrier when we heard that Frenchy had found the Buff-bellied Pipit again and now it was feeding in the middle of the pony-farm.

The American pipit nests in tundra and mountain ecosystems (Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals).

Some of the common fish and bird species are the lump suckers, Arctic Chars, Sculpins and Arctic Terns, Great Black Seagull, Canada goose, loon, duck, American Pipit and much more.