English: Richard's Pipit
Russian: Степной конёк
German: Spornpieper
French: Pipit de Richard
Mongolian: Хээрийн шийхнүүхэй
Japanese: マミジロタヒバリ (Mamijiro-tahibari)

Body length: 17-18 cm
Wing span: 29-33 cm

Breeding visitor
Breeding season: May-August

Egg number: 3-6
Egg colour: Glossy ground colour with dark-reddish-brown blotches.
Brood:  1-2 per year

Global status: Least concern
Regional status: Least concern

Food: Insects, makes short flights to catch flying insects and plant matter.

Habitat:  Breeding habitats are open semi-wet habitats on mountain slopes, edges of mixed forests, mountain meadows and tall vegetated mountain valleys in high mountains, forest steppe, and mountain steppe and valleys of llakes and rivers with shrubs and bushes. The nest is a hollow lined with dried grasses and softer fine stems and hairs under grass tussocks.