Editing Water pipit (section)

==Predators and parasites==

The water pipit is hunted by [[Bird of prey|birds of prey]] including the [[Eleonora's falcon]],<ref name= walter>{{cite book | last1 = Walter | first1 = Harmut | title = Eleonora's Falcon: Adaptations to Prey and Habitat in a Social Raptor | publisher = University of Chicago Press | year = 1979| location = Chicago | page = [https://archive.org/details/eleonorasfalcona0000walt/page/372 372] | url =https://archive.org/details/eleonorasfalcona0000walt| url-access = registration | isbn = 978-0-226-87229-2 }}</ref> and eggs and young may be taken by terrestrial predators including [[stoat]]s and snakes.<ref name="hbw"/> As with other members of its genus, the water pipit is a host of the [[common cuckoo]], a [[brood parasite]]. Eggs of cuckoos that specialise in parasitising pipits are similar in appearance to those of their hosts.<ref name= soler>{{cite journal | last1 = Soler | first1 = Juan J | last2 = Vivaldi | first2 = Manuel Martín | last3 = Møller | first3=Anders P | title = Geographic distribution of suitable hosts explains the evolution of specialized gentes in the European cuckoo ''Cuculus canorus'' | journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume = 9 | issue = 88| pages = 1–10 | year =2009 | doi = 10.1186/1471-2148-9-88 | doi-access=free | pmid=19405966 | pmc=2683792}}</ref>

A new species of [[feather mite]], ''Proctophyllodes schwerinensis'', was discovered on the water pipit,<ref name=cerny >{{cite journal | last1 = Černý | first1 =V |year =1982| title = ''Proctophyllodes schwerinensis'' sp. n., eine neue Federmilbenart von ''Anthus spinoletta'' | journal = Angealsowandte Parasitologie | volume =23 | issue =3 | pages = 158–159| language = de | pmid =7149334 }}</ref> which is also a host to the [[flea]]s ''[[Ceratophyllus borealis]]'' and ''[[Moorhen flea|Dasypsyllus gallinulae]]''.<ref name="fleasnhm">{{cite web |url= http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/scientific-resources/biodiversity/uk-biodiversity/british-flea-distribution/database/Searchpage.do?species=&fleaname=&host=&hostname=water+pipit&county=&publication=&sortorder=|title=Distribution of British fleas: Water pipit |publisher=Natural History Museum |access-date=26 November 2016}}</ref> Along with other Motacillidae species, the water pipit is a host of the [[protozoa]]n parasite ''[[Haemoproteus|Haemoproteus anthi]]''.<ref name= valk>{{cite book | last1 = Valkiunas | first1 = Gediminas | title = Avian Malaria Parasites and other Haemosporidia | publisher = CRC | year =2004 | location = Boca Raton, Florida | page =327 | isbn =978-0-415-30097-1}}</ref>