Olive-backed Pipit © David Bakewell

Vagrant to Bahrain, Brunei Darussalam, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Iran [Islamic Republic of], Ireland, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA.

Unknown to Afghanistan.

Proposed subspecies inopinatus (Sakhalin) indistinguishable from yunnanensis; berezowskii, described from Gansu (central China), inseparable from nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

• yunnanensis Uchida & Kuroda, Nagamichi, 1916   -  Breeds from north-western Russia (from west of middle R Pechora, south-western Siberia and north-eastern Altai) east to Kamchatka, Sakhalin and Kuril Is, south to northern Mongolia, north-eastern China (southern at least to Liaoning) and northern Japan (Hokkaido). Winters in southern and south-eastern Asia.
• hodgsoni Richmond, 1907   -  Breeds from Himalayas (eastern from north-western India) east to central China (southern Xizang, and from north-eastern Qinghai, southern Nei Mongol and Shanxi south to Yunnan and Sichuan), also northern Korea and Japan (south to central Honshu). Winters in southern and south-eastern Asia.

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