Resident and breeding on South Georgia; similar to the Falklands pipit but slightly larger (17cm 6.6 inches), and darker, with reddish tan upperparts marked with dark brown and light buff. They prefer coastal habitats where they feed alone the shoreline or in tussoc cover taking flies, their larvae, beetles, and marine copepods.

Restricted to South Georgia where they tend to be on offshore islands and areas of the main island protected from rats. Rats have now been evicted from South Georgia.

Sources include: Falkland Islands State of the Environment Report 2008 Otley H, Munro G, Clausen A, Ingham B. A Field Guide to the Wildlife of The Falkland Islands and South Georgia - Ian J Strange, Guide to Birds of the Falkland Islands- Robin W. Woods.

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