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Tawny Pipit

Anthus campestris

Classification

Class
Aves

The tawny pipit (Anthus campestris) is a medium-large passerine bird which breeds in much of the central Palearctic from northwest Africa and Portugal to Central Siberia and on to Inner Mongolia. It is a migrant moving in winter to tropical Africa and the Indian subcontinent. Taxonomy The tawny pipit was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.

Distribution

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Spain · 16,499France · 11,805Netherlands · 2,056Italy · 1,038Germany · 416Switzerland · 128Belgium · 84United Kingdom · 55Luxembourg · 5