PLEASE! If you see any mistakes, I'm 100% sure that I have wrongly identified some birds.
So please let me know on my guestbook at the bottom of the page
Tawny Pipit, Anthus campestris



The Tawny Pipit (Anthus campestris) is a medium-large passerine bird which breeds in much of the central Palearctic from northwest Africa and Portugal to Central Siberia and on to Inner Mongolia. It is a migrant moving in winter to tropical Africa and the Indian Subcontinent.

Tawny Pipit, Anthus campestris
The distribution map of tawny pipit (Anthus campestris) according to IUCN 2019.1
Click picture for full size map
By SanoAK: Alexander Kürthy - Made with Natural Earth. Free vetor and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com.
Range map from BirdLife International 2018. Anthus campestris. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T22718501A131883347.
Downloaded on 31 March 2019 as visual indicator of distribution., CC BY-SA 4.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=77688395

The scientific name is from Latin. Anthus is the name for a small bird of grasslands, and the specific campestris means "of the fields".

This is a large pipit, 16 centimetres long with wing-span 25–28 centimetres, but is an undistinguished looking species on the ground, mainly sandy brown above and pale below.

It is very similar to Richard's pipit, but is slightly smaller, has shorter wings, tail and legs and a narrower dark bill.

It is also less streaked. Its flight is strong and direct, and it gives a characteristic "schip" call, higher pitched than Richard's.

Its song is a short repetition of a loud disyllabic chir-ree chir-ree.

In south Asia, in winter some care must be taken to distinguish this from other large pipits which winter or are resident in the area, including Richard's pipit, Blyth's pipit and paddyfield pipit. Tawny pipit is insectivorous, like its relatives.

The breeding habitat is dry open country including semi-deserts. The nest is on the ground, with 4-6 eggs being laid.

Tawny Pipit, Anthus campestris
Range map
Range map from www.oiseaux.net - Ornithological Portal Oiseaux.net
www.oiseaux.net is one of those MUST visit pages if you're in to bird watching. You can find just about everything there


Length: 17 cm
Wingspan: 25 to 28 cm.
Weight: 20 to 28 g
Longevity:
Similar Species

• The almost complete lack of streaks on the underparts is one of the best ways to tell a Tawny Pipit, though beware summer plumage Water Pipit. Tawny Pipit looks bigger and leggier than other pipits.

From opus at www.birdforum.net the forum for wild birds and birding.
Female / Male / Juvenile

• Juveniles are more heavily streaked and hence are confusable with Richard's Pipits, but are sleeker and always show distinctive dark lores.

From opus at www.birdforum.net the forum for wild birds and birding.


Listen to the Tawny Pipit

www.xeno-canto.org

In society

The plot of the 1944 film Tawny Pipit is about the rare event of a pair of tawny pipits breeding in England. Eric Hosking's footage of the pipits was actually of meadow pipits because he could not get genuine tawny pipits from German-occupied Europe.
Conservation status
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013./div>


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

www.birdforum.net


Sighted: (Date of first photo that I could use) 19 March 2021
Location: eBird hotspot: Akamas Peninsula NP--Fontana Amaroza, Cyprus


Tawny Pipit, Anthus campestris
Tawny Pipit - 19 March 2021
eBird hotspot: Akamas Peninsula NP--Fontana Amaroza, Cyprus

Tawny Pipit, Anthus campestris
Tawny Pipit - 19 March 2021
eBird hotspot: Akamas Peninsula NP--Fontana Amaroza, Cyprus

Tawny Pipit, Anthus campestris
Tawny Pipit - 19 March 2021
eBird hotspot: Akamas Peninsula NP--Fontana Amaroza, Cyprus



PLEASE! If I have made any mistakes identifying any bird, PLEASE let me know on my guestbook



       
                  



                                       

You are visitor no.
To www.aladdin.st since December 2005

Visitors from different countries since 26th of September 2011