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Red-throated Pipit
Anthus cervinus(Pallas, 1811)
Least ConcernVagrant
- Order
- PASSERIFORMES
- Family
- Motacillidae
- Genus
- Anthus
- Conservation
- Least Concern
- Commonness
- Local
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The red-throated pipit is a small passerine bird, which breeds in the far north of Europe and the Palearctic, with a foothold in northern Alaska. It is a long-distance migrant, wintering in Africa, South-East Asia, and the Philippines. In Australia, it is a rare but increasingly recorded vagrant.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- PAL, NA : north Europe to north-west Alaska
- Non-breeding range
- AF, OR : west-central to east-central Africa, south-east Asia to east China, Philippines
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
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