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Red-throated Pipit (Anthus cervinus)

Red-throated Pipit (Anthus cervinus)

Red-throated Pipit (Anthus cervinus)



Red-throated Pipit (Anthus cervinus) - Female Red-throated Pipit (Anthus cervinus) Red-throated Pipit (Anthus cervinus)

Class: Aves
Family: Motacillidae
Common Name: Red-throated Pipit
Genus: Anthus
Species Name: cervinus

About The Red-throated Pipit

Red-throated pipits have a Holarctic distribution. They breed from Arctic Scandinavia east across Russia to the Bering Strait, mainly above the Arctic Circle, except for the Kamchatka Peninsula. Their range extends into Alaska, breeding on St. Lawrence Island, Little Diomede Island, and mainland Seward Peninsula north to Cape Lisburne. Red-throated pipits may breed in arctic Yukon as well. There are two main wintering areas: Eastern European and Russian birds winter in sub-Saharan Africa, from Mauritiana and the Ivory Coast, east to Ethiopia, southern Somalia, Tanzania, and northeast Democratic Republic of Congo.  Birds from Siberia and North America winter in China south of the Yangtze River, Thailand, Cambodia, and northern Indonesia.

Populations of red-throated pipits migrate through central Europe in October, peaking in Israel in late October or early November. They arrive at their wintering grounds on the Sudan coast in mid-September and Kenya in late October. Populations arrive at breeding grounds in Siberia in the first two weeks of May, extending into early June. Red-throated pipits are fairly common migrants in the western Aleutian Islands, especially in fall.

Biogeographic Regions: nearctic (Native ); palearctic (Native ); oriental (Native ); ethiopian (Native )

Other Geographic Terms: holarctic



Rights Holder: The Regents of the University of Michigan and its licensors
Bibliographic Citation: Gayk, Z. 2008. "Anthus cervinus" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed April 27, 2013 at Citation Link

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