#1102 · 🐦 birds

American Pipit

🇳🇱 Pacifische Waterpieper ·Anthus rubescens

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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what is it?

The buff-bellied pipit ( Anthus rubescens ), or American pipit as it is known in North America, is a small songbird found on both sides of the northern Pacific. It was first described by Marmaduke Tunstall in his 1771 Ornithologia Britannica . It was formerly classified as a form of the water pipit.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 24,947iNaturalist 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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
24,947 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Marmaduke Tunstall in 1771 (255 years ago).