[SBB] Unusual American Pipit

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All,
 
At about noon today, in a flock of 20-30 AMERICAN PIPITS on the north side  
of the hill located west of the Sunnyvale Water Treatment Facility parking lot, 
 Pat Kenny, Roland Kenner, Frank Vanslager and I had an unusually white 
bellied,  heavy black streaked AMPI.  Despite the skittishness of the AMPI flock 
and  the high noon time traffic we were ultimately able to determine that the  
bird had prominent white wing bars and seemed to have  a lighter colored leg.  
A small amount of buff was located on the  lower flanks of the bird.  Upper 
body coloring was very similar to that of  the normally marked AMPI and we were 
unable to note any obvious difference  in mantle streaking.  This bird is 
easily located within the flock but  it's and the flocks movements made studying 
it very difficult.  The bird  seemed to be losing a feather on it's left wing 
(a tertial?).  It  seems possible that this is a nonbreeding bird of the Asian  
subspecies of the AMPI?  
 
Take care,
Bob Reiling 
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