Tawny Pipit
Anthus campestris(Linnaeus, C, 1758)
English (US) Tawny Pipit
The Tawny Pipit (Anthus campestris) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Motacillidae (Wagtails and Pipits) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: breeds central and southern Europe and northwestern Africa (Morocco eastward to Tunisia) eastward to northwestern and south-central Mongolia, northwestern Kazakhstan, northern Afghanistan, and far northwestern China, also locally in Middle East; winters in sub-Saharan Africa (mainly in the Sahel), Arabia, and southwestern AsiaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Anthus campestris
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Tawny Pipit
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1758)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Alauda campestris
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1758)
- Type locality
- Europa = Sweden.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata 1 p.166
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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