Red-throated Pipit

Anthus cervinus (Pallas, 1811)

Red-throated Pipit, Anthus cervinus, breeds across the Palearctic and in North America from northern Europe to north-west Alaska, and spends the non-breeding season in Africa and the Oriental Region from west-central to east-central Africa, south-east Asia, east China and the Philippines. It is a passerine in the wagtail and pipit family. In breeding plumage, adults are set apart by a brick-red face and throat. At other times it is much less striking, with a strongly streaked brown upperpart pattern and marked underparts, and it can be confused with meadow pipit and, in autumn, tree pipit.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Motacillidae — Wagtails, Pipits

Breeding range

Palearctic, North America: n Europe to nw Alaska

Nonbreeding range

Africa, Oriental Region: wc to ec Africa, se Asia to e China, Philippines