Meadow pipit

Meadow pipit
Bird recorded in Surrey, England
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Motacillidae
Genus: Anthus
Species:
A. pratensis
Binomial name
Anthus pratensis
Range of A. pratensis
  Breeding
  Resident
  Passage
  Non-breeding
Synonyms

Alauda pratensis Linnaeus, 1758

The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis) is a small passerine bird, which breeds in much of the Palearctic, from southeastern Greenland and Iceland east to just east of the Ural Mountains in Russia, and south to central France and Romania; an isolated population also occurs in the Caucasus Mountains. It is migratory over most of its range, wintering in southern Europe, North Africa, and south-western Asia, but is resident year-round in western Europe, though even here many birds move to the coast or lowlands in winter.[2][3]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2021). "Anthus pratensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T22718556A154480081. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T22718556A154480081.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Snow, D. W.; Perrins, C. M. (1998). The Birds of the Western Palearctic (Concise ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-854099-X.
  3. ^ Hoyo, J. del; et al., eds. (2004). Handbook of the Birds of the World, vol. 9. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. pp. 763. ISBN 84-87334-69-5.

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