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 LC    Paddyfield Pipit* Id (Atlas):
    Anthus rufulus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Paddyfield Pipit, Indian Pipit, Oriental Pipit

Family
Motacillidae (Pipits And Wagtails)

Size
15 - 16 cm

First Described (Guide)
Vieillot, 1818

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland, high altitude grassland, dry savanna, arable land, pastureland. From sea-level - 2,400 m.

Range (Guide)
Bangladesh, Bhutan (B), Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China (mainland), India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines (B), Singapore (B), Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam.

Unknown to Afghanistan.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (2)...)

 
Paddyfield Pipit (Anthus rufulus) [XC771612]
     by Ramit Singal from The River Craft, Muang Yai, Wiang Kaen District, Chiang Rai, Thailand (call)

 
Paddyfield Pipit (Anthus rufulus) [XC295498]
     by Andrew Spencer from Tekkatte, Udupi, Karnataka, India (call, song)

Subspecies
May form a superspecies with Australasian Pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae), Richard's Pipit (Anthus richardi) and African Pipit (Anthus cinnamomeus). All were formerly treated as conspecific.

Subspecies albidus possibly indistinguishable from medius. Also, birds from Lombok and Sumbawa (western Lesser Sundas) somewhat intermediate between medius and malayensis. northern Sulawesi population of uncertain subspecies identity, tentatively included in albidus.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

  • waitei Vieillot, 1818   -   north-western Indian Subcontinent.
  • rufulus Vieillot, 1818   -  Most of Indian Subcontinent (except north-west, northern and extreme south-west) east to southern China, south to southern Thailand and Indochina.
  • malayensis Eyton, 1839   -  Extreme south-western India (Nilgiri Hills), Sri Lanka, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, northern and south-eastern Borneo and southern Indochina.
  • lugubris (Walden, 1875)   -  Philippines; possibly also northern Borneo.
  • albidus Stresemann, 1912   -  Sulawesi, Bali and western Lesser Sundas (Lombok, Sumbawa, Komodo, Padar, Rinca, Flores, Sumba).
  • medius Wallace, 1864   -  Eastern Lesser Sundas (Sawu, Roti, Timor, Kisar, Leti, Moa, Sermata).



References
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Files:
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