American Pipit
Anthus rubescens
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The American pipit, formerly known as the buff-bellied pipit, is a small songbird native to North America. It was first described by Marmaduke Tunstall in his 1771 Ornithologia Britannica. It was formerly classified as a form of the water pipit. The former subspecies, Siberian pipit, is now considered a distinct species.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Motacillidae
- Genus
- Anthus