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Red-throated Pipit (Anthus cervinus) German name(s): "Rotkehlpieper" Size: 14-15 cm Weight: 16-29 g

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Physical description Click here for a physical description Red-throated Pipits are small members of the genus Anthus. Their plumage is highly cryptic. Adults have slightly different breeding and eclipse plumages. Breeding Red-throated Pipits have characteristic rusty-red sides of the head and throat, with males showing deeper hues of colour than females. The underparts are white, with dark streaking down the sides. The head, irrespective of base colour, has additional dark streaking along the crown. The upperparts are olive, with extensive dark-brown centres on the feathers, giving an overall dark appearance. They have a characteristic white streak down each side of the mantle, giving the upperparts a high colour contrast. These streaks remain present in all plumages. In eclipse most of the plumage remains unchanged, but the parts that are rusty-red in summer fade to a more terracotta-pink colour, with the sexes basically identical. First-winter Red-throated Pipits do not have any terracotta or rusty colours on their head yet, but dark streaking on the chest. Otherwise they resemble adults.

Taxonomy, classification See Red-throated Pipit at Wikipedia .

Range, habitat, finding this species Click here for information on habitat and range The overall distribution of this species can be assessed, and specific locations where birds have been spotted can be found, based on individual sighting reports submitted by birdwatchers to ebird.org . The global distribution of the Red-throated Pipit is available HERE . Red-throated Pipits are a strongly migratory species. Their breeding grounds stretch all across the width of Eurasia, from northern Europe in the West to far-eastern Siberia in the East, extending to the far-western coastal fringe of Alaska. They overwinter primarily in sub-Saharan Africa, north-eastern Africa, the southern Mediterranean, parts of the Levant and in South-east Asia, in an area from roughly Thailand and the Andaman islands to the Philippines, southern China and the islands of southern Japan. During their migration they can be found anywhere between their breeding grounds and winter quarters. In Europe Red-throated Pipits breed only in northern Scandinavia, and in north-western Russia. Their European winter quarters are located in south-eastern Italy and in southern Greece. During their migration they can be found anywhere eastward of a line from the North Cape via Denmark to the Balearic islands. Red-throated Pipits breed in bare mountains and in tundra.

Sightings Click here for sighting information J. Pires reports finding a Red-throated Pipit at the Minutos Dam, near Montemor o Novo, Evora, Portugal, in December 2019. Another was found at the Montargil Dam, near Mora, Evora, Portugal, in January 2020. All sighting and photographic information presented on this page has kindly been contributed by J. Pires.

Photos

IMMATURE/JUVENILE

Frontal view of a first-winter Red-throated Pipit (photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Mora, Evora, Portugal, December 2019]

Lateral view of a first-winter Red-throated Pipit; note the characteristic white streaks on the mantle
(photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Mora, Evora, Portugal, December 2019]

Lateral view of a first-winter Red-throated Pipit; note the characteristic white streaks on the mantle
(photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Montargil Dam, near Mora, Evora, Portugal, January 2020]

Near-dorsal view of a first-winter Red-throated Pipit; note the characteristic white streaks on the mantle
(photo courtesy of J. Pires)
[Minutos Dam, near Montemor o Novo, Evora, Portugal, December 2019]

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