On 18 October 1996, Pike and Wurster recorded Mexico's first Olive-backed Pipit (Anthus hodgsoni) at Cataviña, a large oasis located in the Vizcaíno Desert of central Baja California, approximately 360 km south of the international border. They found the bird as it foraged in a yard on Highway 1 approximately 1 km southeast of Hotel La Pinta, just past the crossing of La Bocana, the larger of Cataviña's two streambeds.