High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sprague`s Pipit (Anthus spragueii) is a small passerine bird that breeds in the short and mixed-grass prairies of North America and overwinters in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Easiest to identify by the distinctive descending call that is delivered in the breeding season from a considerable height. Males and females are cryptically coloured and similar in appearance and are a buffy brown with darker streaking, slender bills and pinkish to yellow legs.