Olive-backed Pipit

The olive-backed pipit, sometimes called the Indian, Hodgson's or tree pipit because of its resemblance to the tree pipit, is a small pipit about 15 cm long, greenish-brown above streaked with darker brown and whitish to buff below with dark brown streaks on the breast and flanks. It breeds across southern, north-central and eastern Asia and north-eastern European Russia, in summer from Himalayan Pakistan and India through Nepal into China, north to Gansu and east through Korea to Japan (Wikipedia, general species account).

It breeds in open woodland and scrub, making a cup of moss and grass on the ground under a grass tuft or boulder, with three to five, usually four, dark brown spotted eggs. The song, uttered on the wing, is lark-like and similar to the tree pipit's but faster and higher pitched (Wikipedia, general species account).