#0900 · 🐦 birds
Olive-backed Pipit
🇳🇱 Siberische Boompieper ·Anthus hodgsoni
📍 Fullerton, CA, USA
📍 Асиновский р-н, Томская обл., Россия
📍 Namha-myeon, Geochang-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
📍 Helgoland, Deutschland
📍 Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University Campus, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, India
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Griha Hasanov · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Константин Самодуров · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Donna Pomeroy · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Thorsten Stegmann · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © Vijay Anand Ismavel · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. Fullerton, CA, USA:© nmoorhatch · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Асиновский р-н, Томская обл., Россия:© Константин Самодуров · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Namha-myeon, Geochang-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea:© Rob Macfie · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Helgoland, Deutschland:© Thorsten Stegmann · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 10. Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University Campus, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, India:© Dhruva Punde · CC BY-NC 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
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
#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 13724, Wikidata Q726873, GBIF 2490244, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.
