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#0900 · 🐦 birds

Olive-backed Pipit

🇳🇱 Siberische Boompieper ·Anthus hodgsoni

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands
Olive-backed Pipit, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Griha Hasanov · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The olive-backed pipit ( Anthus hodgsoni ) is a small passerine bird of the pipit ( Anthus ) genus, which breeds across South, north Central and East Asia, as well as in the northeast of European Russia. It is a long-distance migrant moving in winter to southern Asia and Indonesia. Sometimes it is also called Indian pipit or Hodgson's pipit , as well as tree pipit owing to its resemblance with the tree pipit. However, its back is more olive-toned and...

base stats

  • NL sightings 5iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 8,777iNaturalist observations
  • weight 22 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.
  • 8,777 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Weighs only about 22 g.
  • Scientifically named by Charles Wallace Richmond in 1907 (119 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Olive-backed Pipit
Nederlands
Siberische Boompieper
scientific name
Anthus hodgsoni
class
Aves
order
Passeriformes
family
Motacillidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
5
sightings in Europe
171
sightings worldwide
8,777
GBIF records in NL
2,958
weight
22 g
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1907 by Charles Wallace Richmond

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

relatives· Motacillidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 13724, Wikidata Q726873, GBIF 2490244, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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