Pipits and Wagtails (Motacillidae)
Yellowish Pipit (Anthus lutescens) - HBW 9, p. 759
French: Pipit jaunâtre
German: Savannenpieper
Spanish: Bisbita Amarillento
Taxonomy: Anthus lutescens Pucheran, 1855, vicinity of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Relationships uncertain; may form a clade with A. spragueii, A. furcatus, A. correndera, A. antarcticus, A. hellmayri and A. bogotensis. Form “A. chii” might be referable to present species, but best considered unidentifiable. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- parvus Lawrence, 1865 - Pacific slope in W Panama.
- lutescens Pucheran, 1855 - NE Colombia, Venezuela (except N & S), the Guianas, and lowlands from E Bolivia and N, C & E Brazil S to Argentina (S to La Pampa and SE Buenos Aires) and Uruguay.
- peruvianus Nicholson, 1878 - coastal Peru (S from Trujillo) S to extreme N Chile (Arica).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird on a fence calling several times Locality Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil (ssp lutescens)
Josep del Hoyo 8 January 2005 4 years ago 46 sec 4.7 -
A bird on a fence, calling and then defecating and flying away Locality Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil (ssp lutescens)
Josep del Hoyo 8 January 2005 4 years ago 39 sec 4.6 -
A male moving on the ground and calling Locality Serra da Canastra, Minas Gerais State, Brazil (ssp lutescens)
Guto Carvalho 31 October 2007 4 years ago 21 sec 4.5 -
A bird standing on a fence and calling once Locality Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil (ssp lutescens)
Josep del Hoyo 8 January 2005 4 years ago 29 sec 4.5 -
A male singing on a tremite mound and then on the grass Locality Serra da Canastra, Minas Gerais State, Brazil (ssp lutescens)
Guto Carvalho 31 October 2007 4 years ago 26 sec 4.4 -
An adult bird calling. Locality Ipeúna, São Paulo State, Brazil
Carlos Gussoni 13 April 2008 24 weeks ago 21 sec 3
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An immature in hand
Locality French Guiana
maxcobigo 12 September 2009 2 years ago 3.3 -
His song was the classic chiiii ...Cardales, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Locality Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Silvia Vitale 2 January 2010 2 years ago 2.7 -
A bird foraging on the ground.
Locality Pedra Talhada Biological Reserve, Brazil
Yoel Jimenez 4 December 2006 2 years ago 1.8
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Two individual. Contact or alarm calls. Locality Garabí, Corrientes Province, Argentina
Kini Roesler 7 May 2009 2 years ago 3
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