#0903 · 🐦 birds

Red-throated Pipit

🇳🇱 Roodkeelpieper ·Anthus cervinus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The red-throated pipit ( Anthus cervinus ) is a small passerine bird which breeds in the far north of Europe and Asia, with a foothold in northern Alaska. It is a long-distance migrant moving in winter to Africa, south and east Asia and west coast United States. It is a vagrant to western Europe.

base stats

NL sightings 5iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,473iNaturalist observations
weight 2 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

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 5 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
5,473 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 2 g.
Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1811 (215 years ago).

fact sheet

English: Red-throated Pipit
Nederlands: Roodkeelpieper
scientific name: Anthus cervinus
class: Aves
order: Passeriformes
family: Motacillidae
IUCN Red List: LC · least concern
sightings in NL: 5
sightings in Europe: 2,158
sightings worldwide: 5,473
GBIF records in NL: 3,326
weight: 2 g
length: —
lifespan: —
named: 1811 by Peter Simon Pallas

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Motacillidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 13721, Wikidata Q241347, GBIF 2490283, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.