| Rock pipits can be seen all around the coast of Devon and
Cornwall and it is easy to confuse it with the similar Meadow pipit. However
they are bigger and darker with a longer bill and darker legs. The sexes
are the same with olive-brown upper-parts and whitish, but heavily streaked
with dark, under-parts. They can often be seen taking off from rocks to
indulge in aerial song before landing back on the rocks again. It hunts
for food along the shoreline usually amongst boulder scree and takes insects,
beetles, small shellfish and small fish. |
