NEW ZEALAND PIPIT

Photographed on Te Mata Peak, New Zealand, June 2017

1213                NEW ZEALAND PIPIT              Anthus novaeseelandiae 

NEW ZEALAND                   77

Found in open habitats from coast to alpine tops, but avoids intensely farmed areas; mainly near coast, on shingle riverbeds, gravel roads, and scree slopes. 19 cm. Uncommon endemic found throughout New Zealand.

PADDYFIELD PIPIT

Photographed on Langkawi, April 2017

(* 897)                PADDYFIELD PIPIT              Anthus rufulus

MALAYSIA               32

Found on short grass such as airfields and golf courses. 16 cm. Range: India and S China through Indo-Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, the Philippines and Lesser Sundra.

PADDYFIELD PIPIT

March 2017

(*  897)               PADDYFIELD PIPIT              Anthus rufulus  

SRI LANKA                 118

Found in grassland and low scrub. 15 cm. Fairly common breeding resident throughout Sri Lanka.

TREE PIPIT

945              TREE PIPIT             Anthus trivialis

AUSTRALIA (Cocos Islands)          674

Breeds across most of Europe and temperate western and central Asia; long-distance migrant to Africa and south-eastern Asia.

NOTE:  this is the first record, and first photographs, of this bird in Australian territory.

PADDYFIELD PIPIT

Photographed in Singapore November 2016

897                  PADDYFIELD PIPIT              Anthus rufulus

SINGAPORE               (40)

Abundant resident of grassland, open scrub, playing fields, golf courses and barren ground on cleared or reclaimed land. 16 cm. Distribution: Afghanistan and much of Indian sub-continent, SW China and mainland Southeast Asia, east to Philippines and Lesser Sundas.

EURASIAN ROCK PIPIT

464            EURASIAN ROCK PIPIT                    Anthus petrosus

Britain         (13)

16 cm. Breeds on the rocky coasts of Western Europe, mainly resident in Ireland, Great Britain and France, and in the east Scandinavia and Russia. Found along rocky coastlines.   

RICHARD'S PIPIT

128        RICHARD'S PIPIT        Anthus ricardi

Australia   (128)

Also known as Groundlark. 16-19 cm. Range all over Australia, also found e Europe, Africa to Asia, Indonesia, PNG, NZ and sub-Antartic Islands. Found tropical, temperate grasslands, crops, pastures, roadsides, woodlands, meadows, golf courses.