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Olive-backed Pipit
Anthus hodgsoni
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About the Olive-backed Pipit
The olive-backed pipit (Anthus hodgsoni) is a small passerine bird of the pipit (Anthus) genus, which breeds across southern, north central and eastern Asia, as well as in the north-eastern 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. The genus name Anthus is from Latin and is the name for a small bird of grasslands. The specific hodgsoni commemorates English diplomat and collector Brian Houghton Hodgson.
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Anthus hodgsoni
- Family
- Wagtails and Pipits
- Order
- Passeriformes
Similar species
Other members of the wagtails and pipits family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- American Pipit Anthus rubescens
- Citrine Wagtail Motacilla citreola
- Eastern Yellow Wagtail Motacilla tschutschensis
- Gray Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
- Pechora Pipit Anthus gustavi
- Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus
- Siberian Pipit Anthus japonicus
- Sprague's Pipit Anthus spragueii
- Tree Pipit Anthus trivialis
- White Wagtail Motacilla alba
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