#0589 · 🐦 birds

Meadow Pipit

🇳🇱 Graspieper ·Anthus pratensis

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Valia Pavlou · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Erik Eckstein · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Pedro Henriques · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Gitte Langgaard Jensen · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © steve vowles · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Mark Kilner · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. © egorbirder · CC BY 4.0
8. © John Bray · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Phil James · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The meadow pipit ( Anthus pratensis ) is a small passerine bird which breeds in much of northwestern Eurasia, from southeastern Greenland and Iceland east to just east of the Ural Mountains in Russia, and south to central France and Romania; there is also an isolated population in the Caucasus Mountains. It is migratory over most of its range, wintering in Southern Europe, North Africa and Southwestern Asia, but is resident year-round in Western Europe. However, even here,...

base stats

NL sightings 1,113iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 36,599iNaturalist observations
weight 2.1 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).