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The meadow pipit was formally described by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Alauda pratensis. [4] The type locality is Sweden. [5] The meadow pipit is now the type species of the genus Anthus that was introduced in 1805 by German naturalist Johann Matthäus Bechstein.
Many authors split the Australasian pipit further into two species. The genus Anthus was introduced in 1805 by German naturalist Johann Matthäus Bechstein. [1] The type species was later designated as the meadow pipit. [2] The generic name Anthus is the Latin word for a small bird of grasslands mentioned by Pliny the Elder. [3]
Many local legends and traditions are based on this. In Scotland , gowk stanes (cuckoo stones) sometimes associated with the arrival of the first cuckoo of spring. "Gowk" is an old name for the common cuckoo in northern England , [ 47 ] derived from the harsh repeated "gowk" call the bird makes when excited. [ 4 ]
The Siberian pipit was described and illustrated by the ornithologists Coenraad Jacob Temminck and Hermann Schlegel in 1847 based on a specimen collected in Japan. They considered it a subspecies of meadow pipit and coined the trinomial name Anthus platensis japonicus.
This is a small pipit, which resembles meadow pipit. It is an undistinguished-looking species, streaked brown above and with black markings on a white belly and buff breast below. It can be distinguished from the slightly smaller meadow pipit by its heavier bill and greater contrast between its buff breast and white belly.
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The water pipit is closely related to the Eurasian rock pipit and the meadow pipit, [4] and is rather similar to both in appearance. Compared to the meadow pipit, the water pipit is longer-winged and longer-tailed than its relative, and has much paler underparts. It has dark, rather than pinkish-red, legs.
The wagtails, longclaws, and pipits are a family, Motacillidae, of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. Around 70 species occur in five genera.The longclaws are entirely restricted to the Afrotropics, and the wagtails are predominantly found in Europe, Africa, and Asia, with two species migrating and breeding in Alaska.