Rotkehlpieper

Bestimmung

This is a small pipit, with an adult easily identified in the breeding season by its brick-red face and throat. In other plumages, this is an undistinguished-looking species, heavily streaked brown above, with whitish mantle stripes, and with black markings on a white background below. It is very similar in appearance to the meadow pipit, and in the autumn, it much resembles the tree pipit, but has an altogether more striped appearance because of the larger numbers of streaks on the cap, back, flank, rump, and chest. The flight of the red-throated pipit is strong and direct, and it gives a characteristic psii call as it flies.

Taxonomie

Wissenschaftlicher Name

Anthus cervinus

Autorität

(Pallas, 1811)

Ordnung

Passeriformes

Familie

Bachstelzen

Gattung

Anthus

Verbreitung und Lebensraum

Brutgebiet

PAL, NA : n Europe to nw Alaska

Überwinterungsgebiet

AF, OR : wc to ec Africa, se Asia to e China, Philippines

Zugverhalten

Complete migrants

Verhalten

The red-throated pipit is native to the boreal regions of Northern Europe and Asia. The breeding habitat is open country including mountains, marshland, and tundra. The nest is built on the ground, often beside a tussock of grass, on rough grassland, or on a hummock in a marsh. It is made of dry grasses and sedges with a soft lining of reindeer hair or down. Four to six eggs are laid and incubated by the female for nearly two weeks. The young are fledged and ready to leave the nest about 12 days later. The red-throated pipit is insectivorous, like its relatives, but also eats seeds.

Schutzstatus

Bestandstrend

stable