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#0833 · 🐦 birds

Richard's Pipit

🇳🇱 Grote Pieper ·Anthus richardi

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands
Richard's Pipit, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Анна Голубева · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

Richard's pipit ( Anthus richardi ) is a medium-sized passerine bird which breeds in open grasslands in northern Asia. It is a long-distance migrant moving to open lowlands in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It is a rare but regular vagrant to western Europe.

base stats

  • NL sightings 14iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 2,395iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

  • Spotted 14 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 2,395 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1818 (208 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Richard's Pipit
Nederlands
Grote Pieper
scientific name
Anthus richardi
class
Aves
order
Passeriformes
family
Motacillidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
14
sightings in Europe
212
sightings worldwide
2,395
GBIF records in NL
6,818
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1818 by Louis Pierre Vieillot

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

relatives· Motacillidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 13726, Wikidata Q904790, GBIF 9465111, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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