Meadow Pipit
Anthus pratensis
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The meadow pipit is a small passerine bird that breeds throughout much of the Palearctic, from south-eastern Greenland and Iceland east to just east of the Ural Mountains in Russia, and south to central France and Romania; an isolated population also occurs in the Caucasus Mountains. It is migratory over most of its range, wintering in southern Europe, North Africa, and south-western Asia, but is resident year-round in western Europe, although even here many birds move to the coast or lowlands in winter.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Motacillidae
- Genus
- Anthus