Olive-backed Pipit

Anthus hodgsoni Blackwelder, 1907

Olive-backed Pipit, Anthus hodgsoni, is a passerine in the wagtail and pipit family that breeds across western Russia to Kamchatka, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, northern Korea and northern and central Japan, with a separate population in the Himalayas and eastern China. It also occurs outside the breeding season from India through eastern China, from Honshu to the Ryukyu Islands in Japan, and in the Philippines. It is known for its more olive-toned back and less marked streaking than the tree pipit, along with a different head pattern and a stronger supercilium.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Motacillidae — Wagtails, Pipits

Breeding range

Palearctic: w Russia to Kamchatka, Sakhalin and Kuril Is. (e Russia), n Korean Pen. and n, c Japan; disjunctly in Himalayas to ec China

Nonbreeding range

Oriental Region: India through e China, Honshu to Ryukyu Is. (c, s Japan), Philippines