American Pipit
Anthus rubescens (Tunstall, 1771)
Motacillidae — Wagtails, Pipits
American Pipit, Anthus rubescens, breeds across North America from Canada and Alaska to north-eastern USA and Greenland, with further breeding in the central and southern Rocky Mountains of western North America. It also occurs in southern USA and Massachusetts outside the breeding season. A passerine in the wagtail and pipit family, it is a migratory bird of tundra in summer and open, lightly vegetated ground at other times. It is a ground-running species with lightly streaked grey-brown upperparts, diffuse streaking below, a whitish belly, and dark bill and legs.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Motacillidae — Wagtails, Pipits
- Breeding range
- North America: Canada and Alaska to ne USA and Greenland. Also c, s Rocky Mts. (w North America)
- Nonbreeding range
- s USA, MA
