The Rock Pipit has a simple but powerful call, often rendered as a "tsiip", coarser and more emphatic than the thinner note of the Meadow Pipit. The song is delivered in a characteristic song flight: the male rises upward from a rock or ledge while singing and then glides down on stiff, outspread wings. The song itself is a series of uniform notes that ends in a faintly trilling and descending finale. The song is heard above all in spring and early summer and carries well over the open coastline.