Editing Water pipit (section)

==Status==

Estimates of the European breeding population of the water pipit vary widely, but may be as high as two million pairs, which would suggest a global population of tens of millions of individuals spread over {{convert|3.7|sqkm|sqmi|disp=preunit|million}}.<ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021" /> The range is discontinuous due to the mountain habitat this species uses,<ref name="hbw" /> but the population is considered overall to be large and stable, and for this reason the water pipit is evaluated as a [[species of least concern]] by the [[International Union for Conservation of Nature|IUCN]].<ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021" />

Breeding densities (in pairs per ten ha) have been recorded as 2.4 in the [[Jura Mountains]], 3.0–3.6 in the [[Alps]] and 4.5 in the [[Tatra Mountains]] of Poland.<ref name="hbw" />{{efn|The equivalents in pairs per ten acres are 1.0, 1.2–1.5 and 1.8 respectively}}