#0696 · 🐦 birds

Rock Pipit

🇳🇱 Oeverpieper ·Anthus petrosus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Paul Roberts · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © thegreatdodo · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Mark Kilner · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Stanley Davis · CC BY 4.0
5. Buitenhaven Stellendam, Stellendam, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
6. IJmuiden, Netherlands:© Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
7. Striep, Netherlands:© Igor Kim · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. De Cocksdorp, Niederlande:© Fabian Karner · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. IJmuiden, Nederland:© floris_heemskerk · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. IJmuiden, North Holland, NL:© Bart Torenvlied · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Eurasian rock pipit ( Anthus petrosus ), or just rock pipit , is a species of small passerine bird that breeds in western Europe on rocky coasts. It has streaked greyish-brown upperparts and buff underparts, and is similar in appearance to other European pipits. There are three subspecies, of which only the Fennoscandian form is migratory, wintering in shoreline habitats further south in Europe. The Eurasian rock pipit is territorial at least in the breeding season, and year-round...

base stats

NL sightings 164iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,346iNaturalist observations
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).