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 LC    Water Pipit* Id (Atlas):
    Anthus spinoletta

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Water Pipit, Mountain Pipit(!)

Family
Motacillidae (Pipits And Wagtails)

Size
15.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Habitat
Temperate grassland. From 615 - 3,200 m.

Range (Guide)
Afghanistan (P), Albania (B), Algeria, Andorra (B), Armenia (B), Austria (B) (NB), Azerbaijan (B) (NB), Bahrain (NB) (P), Belgium (NB), Bosnia and Herzegovina (B), Bulgaria (B) (NB), China (mainland), Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska) (B) (NB), Cyprus (NB), Czech Republic (B) (NB), Denmark (B) (NB), Egypt, Estonia (B), Faroe Islands (B) (NB), Finland (B) (P), France (B) (NB) (P), Georgia (B), Germany (B) (NB) (P), Greece (B) (NB) (P), Hungary (NB), India, Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Iraq (NB), Ireland (B), Israel, Italy (B) (NB) (P), Jordan (NB), Kazakhstan (B), Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan (B), Lebanon, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Liechtenstein (B) (NB), Luxembourg (NB), Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of] (B) (NB), Malta (NB), Mongolia (B), Montenegro (B), Morocco, Nepal (NB) (P), Netherlands Antilles (NB), Norway (B), Oman, Pakistan, Poland (B) (NB), Portugal (B) (NB), Qatar, Romania (B) (NB), Russia (Asian) (B), Russia (Central Asian) (B), Russia (European) (B), Saudi Arabia, Serbia (B), Slovakia (Slovak Republic) (B) (NB), Slovenia (B) (NB), South Korea, Spain (B) (NB), Sweden (B) (NB), Switzerland (B) (NB), Syrian Arab Republic, Taiwan (China), Tajikistan (B), Tunisia, Turkey (B) (NB), Ukraine (B), United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom (NB), Uzbekistan (B).

Vagrant to Gibraltar, Latvia.

Population
Estimated population is 10,000,000 - 100,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (332)...)

 
Water Pipit (Anthus spinoletta) [XC412754]
     by Frank Lambert from Gif-sur-Yvette, Essonne, \u00cele-de-France, France (call, flight call)

 
Water Pipit (Anthus spinoletta) [XC136183]
     by Sander Bot from Cisna, Bieszczady County, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland (song)

Subspecies
Possibly forms a clade with Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis), Rosy Pipit (Anthus roseatus), Red-throated Pipit (Anthus cervinus), Rock Pipit (Anthus petrosus) and American Pipit (Anthus rubescens). May form a superspecies, and until recently treated as conspecific, with Rock Pipit (Anthus petrosus) and American Pipit (Anthus rubescens). Birds from north-western Caucasus sometimes separated as subspecies caucasicus, but considered inseparable from coutellii.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • spinoletta (Linnaeus, 1758)   -  Breeds in mountains of central and southern Europe. Winters western and southern Europe and north-western Africa.
  • coutellii Audouin, 1826   -  Breeds north, southern and eastern Turkey, Caucasus and mountains of northern Iran and Turkmenistan (Kopet Dagh). Winters in neighbouring lowlands and south to north-eastern Africa and Arabia.
  • blakistoni Swinhoe, 1863   -  Breeds in mountains of southern Russia (east to Transbaikalia), Mongolia, eastern Kazakhstan, Tadjikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and north-western and central China (western Xinjiang, Qinghai); migrates to Pakistan, north-western India and southern China.



References
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Files:
JPG files for Water Pipit (Anthus spinoletta) - 10 files


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