On Mon, 31 Jul 1995, Charles E. Vaughan wrote:

> I have never seen any discussion of Water Pipits even though they are
> supposed to be common. Any comments or stories from the Tweeters?

One of the birds I most closely associate with above timberline hiking.
The ones on this continent have been (It's already happened, hasn't it?
Help me here someone) split off from the Old World Water Pipit, and are
now known as the American Pipit (typically creative modern nomenclature,
eh? I'm amazed they failed to work "Northern" in somehow). I have it on
good faith from Someone Who Knows that they really are different critters.

Chris Hill
Seattle, WA
cehill at u.washington.edu