Richard’s Pipit
Anthus richardi
LCLeast Concern
- Family
- Wagtails and Pipits (Motacillidae)
- Order
- Passeriformes
Overview
Richard's pipit (Anthus richardi) is a medium-sized passerine bird which breeds in open grasslands in the East Palearctic. It is a long-distance migrant moving to open lowlands in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It is a rare but regular vagrant to western Europe.
The genus name Anthus is the Latin name for a small bird of grasslands.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Breeds southeastern Russia to eastern Kyrgyzstan and eastward to Sea of Okhotsk and southward to central and southeastern China; winters to southern and southeastern Asia.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Countries
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Chad
- China
- Denmark
- DR Congo
- Equatorial Guinea
- Finland
- Gabon
- Germany
- Greece
- Guinea
- India
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Mali
- Malta
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Republic of the Congo
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sweden
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Turkey
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- Vietnam
- Yemen
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Richard's pipit
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
