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What the Red-throated Pipit sounds like
ID tip
This is a small pipit, with an adult easily identified in the breeding season by its brick-red face and throat. In other plumages, this is an undistinguished-looking species, heavily streaked brown above, with whitish mantle stripes, and with black markings on a white background below. It is very similar in appearance to the meadow pipit, and in the autumn, it much resembles the tree pipit, but has an altogether more striped appearance because of the larger numbers of streaks on the cap, back, flank, rump, and chest.
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When to see the Red-throated Pipit
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Red-throated Pipit
The map shades 108 countries with regular records, and 8 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Canada, Netherlands, Australia, Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Rwanda, Luxembourg.
About the Red-throated Pipit
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 to Africa and South-East Asia and western Alaska in North America. It is vagrant to Western Europe.
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Easily confused with
Tawny PipitAnthus campestrisThis is a large pipit, 16 centimetres (6.3 in) long with wing-span 25–28 centimetres (9.8–11.0 in), but is an undistinguished looking species on the ground, mainly sandy brown above and pale below.
Olive-backed PipitAnthus hodgsoniSize: Sparrow+ (ca. 15 cm (5.9 in))
Appearance: Greenish brown streaked with darker brown above.
Australian PipitAnthus australisIt is a slender bird, 16 to 19 cm long, and weighs about 40 grams.
Side by side: African Pipit vs Red-throated Pipit · Red-throated Pipit vs Tawny Pipit · Olive-backed Pipit vs Red-throated Pipit · Australian Pipit vs Red-throated Pipit
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