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Bird Sightings : Hebrides : Red-throated Pipit

 

Awaiting image for this species (could be a long wait!)

 

Red-throated Pipit

Anthus cervinus

 

• Red-throated Pipit
• Anthus cervinus
• UK: Scarce Visitor
• UK: 9 records a year (406 birds 1958 - 2006) BTO
• WI: Rare visitor (10 or less records)
• Breeds: Open country: mountains, marsh, tundra, wet meadows. Nests on hummock in marsh, elsewise on ground. Far North of Europe & Asia, Alaska
• Winters: Africa, Asia West Europe (vagrant to UK)
• Insecteater: small insects. Some seeds
• Small pipit. Breeding adults: brick-red face &throat. Otherwise a pipit heavily streaked brown above with whitish mantle stripes. Below has black markings on white background .

 

Red-throated Pipit records in the Western Isles

Rare visitor (10 or less records)
Source: Outer Hebrides Bird Report (2001)

 

The chart below shows how abundant the Red-throated Pipit is during a month or when you are more likely to see it.

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(Source: Outer Hebrides Birds Checklist)

 

 

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