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Pipit

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The pipits are a cosmopolitan genus, Anthus, of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. [1]

91 relations: African pipit, African rock pipit, Alaska, Allopatric speciation, Alpine pipit, Atlantic Ocean, Australasian pipit, Autonous, Beak, Berthelot's pipit, Bird, Bird flight, Bird migration, Blyth's pipit, Buff-bellied pipit, Buffy pipit, Bushveld pipit, Camouflage, Canary Islands, Claw, Correndera pipit, Cosmopolitan distribution, Crest (feathers), Drakensberg, Eurasian rock pipit, Family (biology), Flight feather, Golden pipit, Handbook of the Birds of the World, Hellmayr's pipit, Helm Identification Guides, Hemimacronyx, Ibis (journal), Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Kakamega greenbul, Kingfisher, Lark, Latin, Long-billed pipit, Long-legged pipit, Longclaw, Lynx Edicions, Madeira, Malindi pipit, Meadow pipit, Miocene, Miombo, Monogamy, Monotypic taxon, Motacillidae, ..., Mountain pipit, New Zealand outlying islands, Nilgiri pipit, Ochre-breasted pipit, Olive-backed pipit, Paddyfield pipit, Pampas pipit, Paramo pipit, Passerida, Passerine, Pechora pipit, Peruvian pipit, Plain-backed pipit, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Plumage, Puna pipit, Red-throated pipit, Richard's pipit, Rosy pipit, Sexual dimorphism, Short-billed pipit, Short-tailed pipit, Sokoke pipit, South Africa, South Georgia pipit, Species, Sprague's pipit, Striped pipit, Sylvioidea, Syrinx (bird anatomy), Tarsometatarsus, Tawny pipit, Territory (animal), Tree pipit, Upland pipit, Wagtail, Water pipit, Wood pipit, Yellow-breasted pipit, Yellowish pipit. Expand index (41 more) »

African pipit

The African pipit (Anthus cinnamomeus) is a fairly small passerine bird belonging to the pipit genus Anthus in the family Motacillidae.

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African rock pipit

The African rock pipit (Anthus crenatus), also known as the yellow-tufted pipit, is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Alaska

Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.

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Allopatric speciation

Allopatric speciation (from the ancient Greek allos, meaning "other", and patris, meaning "fatherland"), also referred to as geographic speciation, vicariant speciation, or its earlier name, the dumbbell model, is a mode of speciation that occurs when biological populations of the same species become isolated from each other to an extent that prevents or interferes with genetic interchange.

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Alpine pipit

The alpine pipit (Anthus gutturalis) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Australasian pipit

The Australasian pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae) is a fairly small passerine bird of open country in Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea.

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Autonous

In Greek mythology, Autonous (Ancient Greek: Αὐτόνοος, "man with a mind of his own") was an owner of a large herd of horses which were pastured by his wife and children.

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Beak

The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure of birds that is used for eating and for preening, manipulating objects, killing prey, fighting, probing for food, courtship and feeding young.

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Berthelot's pipit

The Berthelot's pipit (Anthus berthelotii) is a small passerine bird which breeds in Madeira and the Canary Islands.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Bird flight

Bird flight is the primary mode of locomotion used by most bird species.

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Bird migration

Bird migration is the regular seasonal movement, often north and south along a flyway, between breeding and wintering grounds.

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Blyth's pipit

The Blyth's pipit (Anthus godlewskii) is a medium-sized passerine bird which breeds in Mongolia and neighbouring areas.

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Buff-bellied pipit

The buff-bellied pipit (Anthus rubescens), or American pipit as it is known in North America, is a small songbird found on both sides of the northern Pacific.

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Buffy pipit

The buffy pipit (Anthus vaalensis) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Bushveld pipit

The Bushveld pipit, bush pipit, or little pipit, (Anthus caffer) is a species of bird in the pipit and wagtail family Motacillidae.

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Camouflage

Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see (crypsis), or by disguising them as something else (mimesis).

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Canary Islands

The Canary Islands (Islas Canarias) is a Spanish archipelago and autonomous community of Spain located in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Morocco at the closest point.

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Claw

A claw is a curved, pointed appendage, found at the end of a toe or finger in most amniotes (mammals, reptiles, birds).

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Correndera pipit

The correndera pipit (Anthus correndera) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Cosmopolitan distribution

In biogeography, a taxon is said to have a cosmopolitan distribution if its range extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats.

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Crest (feathers)

The crest is a prominent feature exhibited by several bird and other dinosaur species on their heads.

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Drakensberg

The Drakensberg (Afrikaans: Drakensberge, Zulu: uKhahlamba, Sotho: Maluti) is the name given to the eastern portion of the Great Escarpment, which encloses the central Southern African plateau.

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Eurasian rock pipit

The Eurasian rock pipit (Anthus petrosus), or just rock pipit, is a species of small passerine bird that breeds in western Europe on rocky coasts.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Flight feather

Flight feathers (Pennae volatus) are the long, stiff, asymmetrically shaped, but symmetrically paired pennaceous feathers on the wings or tail of a bird; those on the wings are called remiges, singular remex, while those on the tail are called rectrices, singular rectrix.

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Golden pipit

The golden pipit (Tmetothylacus tenellus) is a distinctive pipit of dry country grassland, savanna and shrubland in eastern Africa.

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Handbook of the Birds of the World

The Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) is a multi-volume series produced by the Spanish publishing house Lynx Edicions in partnership with BirdLife International.

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Hellmayr's pipit

The Hellmayr's pipit (Anthus hellmayri) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Helm Identification Guides

The Helm Identification Guides are a series of books that identify groups of birds.

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Hemimacronyx

Hemimacronyx is a proposed genus of birds in the pipit and wagtail family Motacillidae.

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Ibis (journal)

Ibis, subtitled the International Journal of Avian Science, is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the British Ornithologists' Union.

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Johann Matthäus Bechstein

Johann Matthäus Bechstein (11 July 1757 – 23 February 1822) was a German naturalist, forester, ornithologist, entomologist, and herpetologist.

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Kakamega greenbul

Kakamega greenbul (Arizelocichla kakamegae), is a species of the bulbul family of passerine birds.

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Kingfisher

Kingfishers or Alcedinidae are a family of small to medium-sized, brightly colored birds in the order Coraciiformes.

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Lark

Larks are passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Long-billed pipit

The long-billed pipit or brown rock pipit (Anthus similis) is a passerine bird which has a wide distribution.

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Long-legged pipit

The long-legged pipit or long-clawed pipit (Anthus pallidiventris) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Longclaw

The longclaws are a genus, Macronyx, of small African passerine birds in the family Motacillidae.

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Lynx Edicions

Lynx Edicions is a Spanish ornithological publishing company.

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Madeira

Madeira is a Portuguese archipelago situated in the north Atlantic Ocean, southwest of Portugal.

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Malindi pipit

The Malindi pipit (Anthus melindae) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Meadow pipit

The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis) is a small passerine bird which breeds in much of northwestern Eurasia, from southeastern Greenland and Iceland east to just east of the Ural Mountains in Russia, and south to central France and Romania; there is also an isolated population in the Caucasus Mountains.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Miombo

Miombo is the vernacular word for Brachystegia, a genus of tree comprising a large number of tree species together with Julbernadia species in woodlands.

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Monogamy

Monogamy is a form of relationship in which an individual has only one partner during their lifetime — alternately, only one partner at any one time (serial monogamy) — as compared to non-monogamy (e.g., polygamy or polyamory).

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Monotypic taxon

In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.

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Motacillidae

The wagtails, longclaws and pipits are a family, Motacillidae, of small passerine birds with medium to long tails.

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Mountain pipit

The mountain pipit (Anthus hoeschi) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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New Zealand outlying islands

The New Zealand outlying islands comprise nine island groups, located in the subtropics and subantarctic, which are part of New Zealand but lie outside of the New Zealand continental shelf.

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Nilgiri pipit

The Nilgiri pipit (Anthus nilghiriensis) is a distinctive species of pipit that is endemic to the high altitude hills of southern India.

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Ochre-breasted pipit

The ochre-breasted pipit (Anthus nattereri) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Olive-backed pipit

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.

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Paddyfield pipit

The paddyfield pipit or Oriental pipit (Anthus rufulus) is a small passerine bird in the pipit and wagtail family.

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Pampas pipit

The Pampas pipit (Anthus chacoensis), also known as the Chaco pipit or Campo pipit, is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Paramo pipit

The paramo pipit (Anthus bogotensis) is a species of bird in the Motacillidae family.

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Passerida

Passerida is, under the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, one of two parvorders contained within the suborder Passeri (standard taxonomic practice would place them at the rank of infraorder).

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Passerine

A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species.

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Pechora pipit

The Pechora pipit (Anthus gustavi) is a small passerine bird which breeds in the tundra of northern Asia, eastwards of Russia.

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Peruvian pipit

The Peruvian pipit (Anthus peruvianus) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae native to Chile and Peru.

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Plain-backed pipit

The plain-backed pipit or plain pipit (Anthus leucophrys) is a medium-sized passerine bird which is a resident breeder in Africa south of the Sahara Desert.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Pliocene

The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) Epoch is the epoch in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years BP.

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Plumage

Plumage ("feather") refers both to the layer of feathers that cover a bird and the pattern, colour, and arrangement of those feathers.

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Puna pipit

The Puna pipit (Anthus brevirostris) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae native to South America.

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Red-throated pipit

The red-throated pipit (Anthus cervinus) is a small passerine bird which breeds in the far north of Europe and Asia, with a foothold in northern Alaska.

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Richard's pipit

Richard's pipit (Anthus richardi) is a medium-sized passerine bird which breeds in open grasslands in northern Asia.

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Rosy pipit

The rosy pipit (Anthus roseatus) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.

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Short-billed pipit

The short-billed pipit (Anthus furcatus) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Short-tailed pipit

The short-tailed pipit (Anthus brachyurus) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Sokoke pipit

The Sokoke pipit (Anthus sokokensis) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South Georgia pipit

The South Georgia pipit (Anthus antarcticus) is a sparrow-sized bird only found on the South Georgia archipelago off the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Sprague's pipit

Sprague's pipit (Anthus spragueii) is a small songbird (passerine) in the family Motacillidae that breeds in the short- and mixed-grass prairies of North America.

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Striped pipit

The striped pipit (Anthus lineiventris) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Sylvioidea

The Sylvioidea are a clade of passerine birds, one of at least three major clades within the Passerida along with the Muscicapoidea and Passeroidea.

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Syrinx (bird anatomy)

The syrinx (Greek σύριγξ for pan pipes) is the vocal organ of birds.

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Tarsometatarsus

The tarsometatarsus is a bone that is only found in the lower leg of birds and certain non-avian dinosaurs.

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Tawny pipit

The tawny pipit (Anthus campestris) is a medium-large passerine bird which breeds in much of temperate Europe and Asia, and northwest Africa.

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Territory (animal)

In ethology, territory is the sociographical area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against conspecifics (or, occasionally, animals of other species).

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Tree pipit

The tree pipit (Anthus trivialis) is a small passerine bird which breeds across most of Europe and temperate western and central Asia.

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Upland pipit

The upland pipit (Anthus sylvanus) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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Wagtail

The wagtails are a genus, Motacilla, of passerine birds in the family Motacillidae.

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Water pipit

The water pipit (Anthus spinoletta) is a small passerine bird which breeds in the mountains of Southern Europe and Southern Asia eastwards to China.

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Wood pipit

The wood pipit or woodland pipit (Anthus nyassae) is a small passerine bird belonging to the pipit genus Anthus in the family Motacillidae.

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Yellow-breasted pipit

The yellow-breasted pipit (Anthus chloris) is a species of bird in the pipit and wagtail family Motacillidae.

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Yellowish pipit

The yellowish pipit (Anthus lutescens) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipit

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