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-4.23 (-5.46 - -3.13)|
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Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:
A tiny silhouette floating, almost invisible, against the prairie sky is often the first view one gets of a Sprague's Pipit. Flushing a light brown bird with white outer tail feathers or catching a fleeting glance of a bird creeping through the grass is often the best look allowed. Sprague's Pipits breed from north-central Alberta, central Saskatchewan, and southern Manitoba south to Montana, North Dakota, and northwestern Minnesota, and they winter from the southwestern US to southwestern Mexico (Godfrey 1966).
Sprague's Pipit is typically associated with ungrazed to moderately grazed native mixedgrass prairie in fair to excellent range condition with few shrubs (Davis, Dale et al. 2014). It is very rarely found in cropland and occurs in lower numbers, with lower juvenile survival, in planted grasslands (Fisher and Davis 2011a, Davis et al. 2013). Pipits are most likely to occur in native mixedgrass pastures at least 145 ha with minimal edge habitat (Davis 2004).
Common across the south grasslands and although uncommon in the aspen parkland and the forest fringe, the species may still be found where suitable habitat remains, north to Lloydminster and east to Turtleford, Prince Albert, Love (B. Dalziel), Shoal Lake IR 28A, and Erwood.
Original text by Stephen K. Davis and Daniel J. Sawatzky. Text adapted by Daniel J. Sawatzky
Read more about the Sprague's Pipit in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.
Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Sprague's Pipit in Latremouille, L. M., S. L. Van Wilgenburg, C. B. Jardine, D. Lepage, A. R. Couturier, D. Evans, D. Iles, and K. L. Drake (eds.). 2025. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Saskatchewan, 2017-2021. Birds Canada. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan https://sk.birdatlas.ca/accounts/speciesaccount.jsp?sp=SPPI&lang=en [09 Nov 2025]
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