Pipit
Pacific Water Pipit
The Pipit ( Anthus ) are a bird genus from the subordination of the songbirds. There is relatively little birds with a medium-to long tail. Together with the stilts and the two monotypic genera Tmetothylacus and Dendronanthus they belong to the family of Wagtail.
Pieper are slender, usually inconspicuously colored insectivores. They usually go a monogamous couple relationships and defend a breeding territory. There are ground-nesting birds, their nests comprises up to six eggs. The genus can be attributed to 40 species, making them the most species-rich genus within the family. The taxonomic assignment of individual species and subspecies, however, is debatable; some authors include fewer species in this genus.
Pieper are represented almost all the world, she only lacks in the tropical rain forests in the drier deserts and on the Antarctic continent. In the Subarctic of Petschorapieper, the Meadow Pipit and Red-throated Pipit occur. In the sub-Antarctic Giant Pieper and Correnderapieper breed. Among the represented in Central Europe Anthus species include Tree Pipit, Meadow Pipit, Red-throated Pipit, Tawny Pipit and Water Pipit.
Species
- Richard's Pipit (Anthus richardi )
- Oriental Pipit (Anthus rufulus )
- Zimtspornpieper (Anthus cinnamomeus )
- Australasian Pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae )
- Brown back Pipit ( Anthus leucophrys )
- Vaalpieper (Anthus vaalensis )
- Stilts Pipit ( Anthus pallidiventris )
- Malindipieper (Anthus melindae )
- Kimberleypieper (Anthus pseudosimilis )
- Tawny Pipit (Anthus campestris )
- Steppe Pipit ( Anthus godlewskii )
- Canaries Pipit ( Anthus berthelotii )
- Langschnabel Pipit ( Anthus similis )
- Jackson Pipit ( Anthus latistratus )
- Short-tailed Pipit ( Anthus brachyurus )
- Bush Pipit ( Anthus caffer )
- Tree Pipit (Anthus trivialis )
- Nilghiripieper (Anthus nilghiriensis )
- Forest Pipit ( Anthus hodgsoni )
- Petschorapieper (Anthus gustavi )
- Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis)
- Red-throated Pipit (Anthus cervinus )
- Rose Pipit ( Anthus roseatus )
- Water Pipit ( Anthus spinoletta )
- Beach Pipits (Anthus petrosal )
- Pacific Pipit ( Anthus rubescens )
- Matt Pipit ( Anthus sylvanus )
- Prairie Pipit ( Anthus spragueii )
- White-bellied Pipit ( Anthus furcatus )
- Hellmayr Pipit ( Anthus hellmayri )
- Savannah Pipit ( Anthus lutescens )
- Chacopieper (Anthus chacoensis )
- Correnderapieper (Anthus correndera )
- Ocher chest Pipit ( Anthus nattereri )
- Paramopieper (Anthus bogotensis )
- Giant Pipit ( Anthus antarcticus )
- Papua Pipit ( Anthus gutturalis )
- Sokokepieper (Anthus sokokensis )
- Clip Pipit ( Anthus crenatus )
- Strip Pipit ( Anthus lineiventris )
- Yellow-breasted Pipit ( Anthus chloris )
- Long-tailed Pipit ( Anthus longicaudatus )
- Highland Pipit ( Anthus hoeschi )