Meadow Pipit

The meadow pipit is a widespread and often abundant small pipit, 14.5–15cm long and 15–22g. It is an indistinctive-looking bird on the ground, mainly brown above and buff below with darker barring on most of its plumage, and a brown tail with narrow white lateral edges. It breeds throughout much of the Palearctic, from south-eastern Greenland and Iceland east to just east of the Ural Mountains in Russia (Wikipedia, general species account).

There has been a general decline in the population over the past 17 years. The source does not describe its status in China (Wikipedia, general species account).