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Anthus campestris (Tawny Pipit)

Synonyms: Alauda campestris (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The tawny pipit (Anthus campestris) is a medium-large passerine bird which breeds in much of temperate Europe and Asia, and northwest Africa. It is a migrant moving in winter to tropical Africa and the Indian subcontinent. The scientific name is from Latin. Anthus is the name for a small bird of grasslands, and the specific campestris means "of the fields". Its song is a short repetition of a loud disyllabic chir-ree chir-ree. The breeding habit is dry open country including semi-deserts. The nest is on the ground, with 4-6 eggs being laid.
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Infraspecies

Anthus campestris campestris
Anthus campestris griseus
Anthus campestris kastschenkoi

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
14
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.40872
EDGE Score: 1.68801
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  25 grams
Birth Weight [2]  2.7 grams
Female Weight [1]  23 grams
Male Weight [1]  27 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  17.4 %
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Ectothermic [3]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  70 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  20 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Clutch Size [6]  4
Clutches / Year [4]  1
Fledging [4]  14 days
Incubation [5]  12 days
Mating Display [2]  Non-acrobatic aerial display
Migration [7]  Intercontinental

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Schistocerca gregaria (desert locust)[8]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Anonchotaenia globata[9]
Biuterina triangula[9]
Brachydistomum ventricosum[9]
Platynosomum kirgisensis[9]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n
♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 6Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 7Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 8SYMENS, P. (1988). Effects of the mass migration of desert locusts Schistocerca gregaria on birds in the Taif area. Arabia.
♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0