Sprague's pipit (Anthus spragueii) is a small songbird (passerine) in the family Motacillidae that breeds in the short- and mixed-grass prairies of North America.

Males and females are cryptically coloured and similar in appearance; they are a buffy brown with darker streaking, slender bills and pinkish to yellow legs.

[3] Measurements: Found in mixed or short grass prairie throughout the central northern Great Plains of North America.

[6] In Mexico it is found in the interior from northeastern Sonora and Nuevo Leon south to Zacatecas and San Luis Potosi and along the Atlantic Coast from Tamaulipas to central Veracruz.

Nests are a small cup of grass found on the ground with standing dead vegetation folded over to create a canopy.