By Kate Persons
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American pipits are delicate-looking songbirds that defy their appearance to buck strong winds and endure the harsh condition of their alpine breeding grounds. This slender, fairy-like bird nests in one of our most exposed habitats. The American pipit breeds in arctic tundra from western Alaska to Greenland, and in alpine tundra on scattered mountaintops in the Rocky Mountain west, the high Sierras and the White Mountains in …
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