#0998 · 🐦 birds
Tawny Pipit
🇳🇱 Duinpieper ·Anthus campestris
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what is it?
The tawny pipit ( Anthus campestris ) is a medium-large passerine bird which breeds in much of temperate Europe and Asia, and northwest Africa. It is a migrant moving in winter to tropical Africa and the Indian Subcontinent. The scientific name is from Latin. Anthus is the name for a small bird of grasslands, and the specific campestris means "of the fields".
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 1 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,652 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 22 g.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Tawny Pipit
- Nederlands
- Duinpieper
- scientific name
- Anthus campestris
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Motacillidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 1
- sightings in Europe
- 3,072
- sightings worldwide
- 5,652
- GBIF records in NL
- 5,565
- weight
- 22 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Motacillidae
#0569 📷 9White Wagtail
🇳🇱 Witte kwikstaart
Motacilla alba
LC 👀 2k in NL
#0589 📷 9Meadow Pipit
🇳🇱 Graspieper
Anthus pratensis
LC 👀 1.1k in NL
#0608 📷 10Western Yellow Wagtail
🇳🇱 Gele Kwikstaart
Motacilla flava
LC 👀 750 in NL
#0626 📷 10Tree Pipit
🇳🇱 Boompieper
Anthus trivialis
LC 👀 463 in NL
#0693 📷 7Grey Wagtail
🇳🇱 Grote gele kwikstaart
Motacilla cinerea
LC 👀 170 in NL
#0696 📷 10Rock Pipit
🇳🇱 Oeverpieper
Anthus petrosus
LC 👀 164 in NL
#0743 📷 10Water Pipit
🇳🇱 Waterpieper
Anthus spinoletta
LC 👀 67 in NL
#0833 📷 10Richard's Pipit
🇳🇱 Grote Pieper
Anthus richardi
LC 👀 14 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 13712, Wikidata Q27226, GBIF 2490274, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.