Olive-backed pipit

Olive-backed pipit
Olive-backed pipit
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Motacillidae
Genus: Anthus
Species: A. hodgsoni
Binomial name
Anthus hodgsoni
(Richmond, 1907)

The olive-backed pipit (Anthus hodgsoni) is a small passerine bird of the pipit (Anthus) genus, which breeds across South, north Central and East Asia, as well as in the northeast of European Russia. It is a long-distance migrant moving in winter to southern Asia and Indonesia. Sometimes it is also called Indian pipit or Hodgson's pipit, as well as tree pipit owing to its resemblance with the tree pipit. However, its back is more olive-toned and less streaked than that species, and its head pattern is different with a better-marked supercilium.

Distribution

at Bracebridge in Kolkata, India.

Description

at Bracebridge in Kolkata, India.

Nesting

Breeding at Mailee Thaatch (10000 ft.) in Kullu - Manali District of Himachal Pradesh, India

The scientific name of this bird commemorates the British ornithologist Brian Houghton Hodgson.

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Anthus hodgsoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. Ali, Salim; Sidney Dillon Ripley (2001) [1986]. Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan, 2nd ed.,10 vols (2nd ed.). New Delhi: Oxford University Press.Bird Number 1852, vol. 9, p. 247-249.
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