Short-billed Pipit

The short-billed pipit is 14 to 14.5 cm (5.5 to 5.7 in) long and weighs about 20 g (0.71 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a blackish brown head with a whitish supercilium, a whitish eye-ring, and a black "moustache". Their upperparts are blackish brown with buffy brown feather edges that give a scaled appearance. Their wings are dusky with thin white edges on the primaries, buffy edges on the secondaries and tertials, and buffy edges on the coverts that show as two wing bars. Their tail is mostly dusky with much white on the outer two pairs of feathers. Their throat and underparts are whitish with a strong ochraceous cast on the breast and flanks and blackish streaks across the upper breast. They have a brown iris, a dark bill, and pinkish buff legs and feet. Juveniles have wide creamy feather edges on their upperparts.

The short-billed pipit is found in Rio Grande do Sul in extreme southern Brazil, southern Paraguay, and south through Uruguay and northern Argentina from Tucumán Province south to northern Chubut Province. It inhabits temperate grasslands.

The short-billed pipit is seen singly and in pairs during the breeding season and outside it forms flocks.