Red-throated Pipit

Anthus cervinus (Pallas, 1811)

≈15 cmLength21 gWeight

Its face and throat are brick-red in the breeding season; at other times it is a small, heavily striped brown pipit.

Busiest months: April and October · Most records: China, Israel, United States

Looks like Meadow Pipit, Tree Pipit

Least Concern

How to identify

Field marks

Face and throat brick-red in the breeding season
Back with heavy rufous stripes
Upper back with whitish streaks
Belly white with black markings

Voice

A distinctive “psii” call in flight.

Similar species

Meadow Pipit

Very similar in appearance; Red-throated Pipit has more stripes on the crown, back, breast and elsewhere, giving a more heavily striped appearance.

Tree Pipit

Also similar in autumn; Red-throated Pipit has more stripes on the crown, back, breast and elsewhere, giving a more heavily striped appearance.

Where and when it's recorded

Red-throated Pipit has been recorded at 1,245 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 108 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

GambellUnited States2,012 records
International Birding and Research Center Eilat (IBRCE)Israel1,642 records
Taipei – Tianliaoyang WetlandTaiwan (China)1,264 records

More places

Long ValleyHong Kong (China)1,190 records
Dubai Pivot FieldsUnited Arab Emirates847 records
Matsu – Dongyin PlaygroundChina674 records
Poleg MarshIsrael656 records
San TinHong Kong (China)633 records
Wamm FarmsUnited Arab Emirates592 records
Eilat – KM20 Flamingo Pools 20Israel575 records

Countries and regions with the most records

China Israel United States United Arab Emirates Thailand Türkiye Greece Norway

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The red-throated pipit (Anthus cervinus) 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 to Africa and South-East Asia and western Alaska in North America. It is vagrant to Western Europe.

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