Short-billed Pipit (Anthus furcatus)

Family
Motacillidae (Pipits And Wagtails)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
Lafresnaye & d'Orbigny, 1837

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical high altitude grassland, temperate grassland. From sea-level - 4,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay (B).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (13)...)

Short-billed Pipit (Anthus furcatus) [XC91480]
by Guilherme Melo Becher from Banhado do Ma\u00e7arico region, Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (song)

Short-billed Pipit (Anthus furcatus) [XC493138]
by id from Arroyo Sanquilc\u00f3, west of Pu\u00e1n, Buenos Aires. Coordinates -38.45, -63.25, Argentina (flight call, song)

Subspecies
Molecular-genetic analyses suggest possible close relationship with Sprague's Pipit (Anthus spragueii), Hellmayr's Pipit (Anthus hellmayri) and Paramo Pipit (Anthus bogotensis). May form a clade with those and with Yellowish Pipit (Anthus lutescens), Correndera Pipit (Anthus correndera) and South Georgia Pipit (Anthus antarcticus).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

brevirostris Lafresnaye & d'Orbigny, 1837 - Central Peru south to western Bolivia and north-western Argentina (Jujuy).
furcatus Lafresnaye & d'Orbigny, 1837 - Lowlands of Argentina (Tucum�n south to northern Chubut) east to extreme south-eastern Brazil and Uruguay.

References
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Files:

JPG files for Short-billed Pipit (Anthus furcatus) - 10 files

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