Editing Water pipit (section)

===Voice===

The water pipit's song is delivered from a perch or in flight, and consists of four or five blocks, each consisting of about half a dozen repetitions of a different short note.<ref name="hbw" /> In comparison, the European rock pipit's song is a sequence of about twenty tinkling ''cheepa'' notes followed by a rising series of thin ''gee'' calls, and finishing with a short [[trill (music)|trill]].<ref name="simms2">{{cite book |last1=Simms |first1=Eric |title=British Larks, Pipits and Wagtails |publisher=Harper Collins |series=New Naturalist |year=1992 |location=London |pages=153–165 |isbn=978-0-00-219870-7}}</ref> The call of the water pipit is a single or double sharp "dzip" or similar, slightly harsher than soft ''sip sip sip'' of the meadow pipit or the shrill ''pseep'' of the European rock pipit. The short, thin ''fist'' flight call is intermediate between the ''sip'' of the meadow pipit and the rock pipit's ''feest''.<ref name=hbw/><ref name="macmillan" /> The differences between the calls of the pipit species are very subtle, and not diagnostic in the absence of other evidence.<ref name="macmillan" /> The flight call of the subspecies ''A. s. coutellii'' is shorter and more buzzing than that of the nominate race.<ref name=hbw/>