Pipits and Wagtails (Motacillidae)
Tawny Pipit (Anthus campestris) - HBW 9, p. 750
French: Pipit rousseline
German: Brachpieper
Spanish: Bisbita Campestre
Taxonomy: Alauda campestris Linnaeus, 1758, Sweden.
Has sometimes been thought to form a superspecies with A. similis. In the past was sometimes treated as conspecific with A. godlewskii. Variation largely clinal, in N becoming smaller and paler from W to E, and in S becoming larger and greyer from NW Africa to Greece and then smaller and greyer E of there; naming of geographical races considered unwarranted by some taxonomists; alternatively, kastschenkoi included within nominate. Conversely, birds from N Iran and Turkey, intermediate in plumage between nominate and griseus but apparently larger than both, sometime.. View all taxonomy...
Taxonomy: Alauda campestris Linnaeus, 1758, Sweden.
Has sometimes been thought to form a superspecies with A. similis. In the past was sometimes treated as conspecific with A. godlewskii. Variation largely clinal, in N becoming smaller and paler from W to E, and in S becoming larger and greyer from NW Africa to Greece and then smaller and greyer E of there; naming of geographical races considered unwarranted by some taxonomists; alternatively, kastschenkoi included within nominate. Conversely, birds from N Iran and Turkey, intermediate in plumage between nominate and griseus but apparently larger than both, sometimes separated as race boehmii. Three subspecies recognized.
Has sometimes been thought to form a superspecies with A. similis. In the past was sometimes treated as conspecific with A. godlewskii. Variation largely clinal, in N becoming smaller and paler from W to E, and in S becoming larger and greyer from NW Africa to Greece and then smaller and greyer E of there; naming of geographical races considered unwarranted by some taxonomists; alternatively, kastschenkoi included within nominate. Conversely, birds from N Iran and Turkey, intermediate in plumage between nominate and griseus but apparently larger than both, sometimes separated as race boehmii. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- campestris (Linnaeus, 1758) - breeds from C & S Europe (Denmark and S Baltic S to Mediterranean countries) and NW Africa (Morocco E to Tunisia, possibly also SW Mauritania and NW Libya) E to SW Siberia and NW Kazakhstan and, in S, to N Iran and Turkmenistan; also locally in Middle East (Lebanon, S Syria, N Israel). Winters mainly in Africa and Arabia.
- kastschenkoi H. C. Johansen, 1952 - S Siberia E to NW Mongolia; winters in S Asia.
- griseus Nicoll, 1920 - SW Kazakhstan S to NE Iran and N Afghanistan, E to Dzhungarskiy Alatau Mts, extreme NW China (Tien Shan, in N Xinjiang) and SC Mongolia; winters in SW & S Asia.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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An individual on the ground catching an insect, killing and eating it. Locality CEDO (Centre for Desert and Ocean), Moti Virani, Kutch District, Gujarat, India
Josep del Hoyo 16 February 2011 27 weeks ago 27 sec 4.4 -
A bird shaking the plumage repeteadly and foraging on the ground. Locality CEDO (Centre for Desert and Ocean), Moti Virani, Kutch District, Gujarat, India
Josep del Hoyo 16 February 2011 27 weeks ago 21 sec 4.3 -
Calling from a bushtop Locality Jaipur District, Rajasthan, India
RAM GOPAL SONI 1 March 2010 1 year ago 15 sec 4.3 -
A bird looking around on the ground. Locality Mudumalai National Park, India (ssp griseus)
Josep del Hoyo 8 December 2009 2 years ago 46 sec 4 -
A bird bathing and going away Locality Jaulín, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain (ssp campestris)
Jesús Laborda 29 May 2007 4 years ago 39 sec 3.9 -
A bird preening, scratching its head and shaking its plumage after bathing and finally going away Locality Jaulín, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain (ssp campestris)
Jesús Laborda 29 May 2007 4 years ago 1 min 7 sec 3.9
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A standing bird.
Locality Beit She'an Valley, Israel
Lior Kislev 12 October 2010 1 year ago 4.4 -
standing on the ground
Locality Tirat Tzvi, Beit She'an Valley, Israel
Lior Kislev 6 October 2007 20 weeks ago 4.3 -
In a field
Locality Arakhiya Farm, Qatar
John A Thompson 21 January 2011 1 year ago 4.2 -
A male at early morning
Locality Valladolid, Castile and Leon, Spain (ssp campestris)
CarlosNaza 17 June 2010 1 year ago 4.2 -
In hand during Spring migration
Locality Antikythira Bird Observatory, Antikythira, Ionian Islands, Greece
Angelos Evangelidis 7 May 2009 19 weeks ago 4 -
A bird on the ground.
Locality Muel, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain (ssp campestris)
Jesús Laborda 1 July 2010 1 year ago 4
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Typical flight call during migratory flight. Locality Forêt de Sénart, France
(ssp campestris)
Julien Rochefort 24 August 2009 2 years ago 4
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