Richard's Pipit © birdguides.com

Vagrant to Afghanistan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey.

May form a superspecies with Australasian Pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae), Paddyfield Pipit (Anthus rufulus) and African Pipit (Anthus cinnamomeus). All were formerly treated as conspecific.

Subspecies ussuriensis considered by some authors to be synonymous with sinensis.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

• richardi Vieillot, 1818   -  Breeds south-western Siberia and north-eastern Kazakhstan east to L Baikal. Winters mainly south-western Asia, some farther west.
• dauricus H. C. Johansen, 1952   -  Breeds Transbaikalia and Yakutia east to Sea of Okhotsk and south to northern Mongolia, Manchuria and north-eastern China (north-western Heilong-Jiang). Winters southern Asia.
• centralasiae (Kistiakovsky, 1928)   -  Breeds eastern Kazakhstan (Zaysan Basin, eastern Tien Shan) east to western and southern Mongolia, south to northern China (Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, probably also Nei Mongol). Winters southern Asia.
• ussuriensis H. C. Johansen, 1952   -  Breeds south-eastern Russia (lower Amur area, Ussuriland) south to eastern China (south to Sichuan and R Yangtze), probably also Korea. Winters south-eastern Asia.
• sinensis (Bonaparte, 1850)   -  South-eastern China south of R Yangtze.

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