Richard’s Pipit Anthus richardi [Vieillot, 1818] |
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Order:
Passeriformes
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Family: Motacillidae |
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BTO Codes:
PR, RICPI
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EURING No: 10020 | |
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Number in Britain:
127 records/year
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Conservation Status:
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Status in UK:
(A) Scarce Visitor
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Subspecies:
recorded in Britain (of 11 subsp. in the world)
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Length:
18 cm
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Wingspan: 31 cm |
Weight:
M/F: 31 g
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Scientific name from:
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Gr.: anthos=a small grassland bird described by Aristotle and after M. Richard (fl. 1815), a French collector about whom almost nothing is known |
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World Distribution:
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BREEDS: e Asia, WINTERS: s Asia |
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Habitat:
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Open grassland |
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Diet:
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Mostly ground-living invertebrates |
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First Record:
Middlesex, 1812
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Summary of Annual Totals
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Split from Anthus novaeseelandiae
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| Gaelic: | Welsh: Corhedydd Richard |
| Danish: Storpiber | Dutch: Grote pieper |
| Finnish: Isokirvinen | French: Pipit de Richard |
| German: Stornpieper | Hungarian: Sarkantyús pityer |
| Icelandic: Vingultittlingur | Irish: Riabhóg Richard |
| Italian: Calandro maggiore | Norwegian: Tartarpiplerke |
| Polish: Swiergotek szponiasty | Portuguese: Petinha de Richard |
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Spanish:
Bisbita patilargo
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Swedish: Större piplärka |
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