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The generic name Anthus is the Latin name for a small bird of grasslands mentioned by Pliny the Elder, and the specific name pratensis means "of a meadow ", from pratum, "meadow". [9] The name "pipit", first documented by Thomas Pennant in 1768, is onomatopoeic, from the call note of this species. [10]
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]
The striped pipit (Anthus lineiventris) and the African rock pipit (Anthus crenatus) were nested with the longclaws in Macronyx. [4] The type species of Anthus , the meadow pipit , was nested with the other Palearctic species in Clade 2.
Common name Binomial Status Gray wagtail: Motacilla cinerea: Western yellow wagtail: Motacilla flava: Citrine wagtail: Motacilla citreola: A White wagtail: Motacilla alba: Richard's pipit: Anthus richardi: A Tawny pipit: Anthus campestris: Meadow pipit: Anthus pratensis: Tree pipit: Anthus trivialis: Olive-backed pipit: Anthus hodgsoni: A Red ...
They considered it a subspecies of meadow pipit and coined the trinomial name Anthus platensis japonicus. [2] [3] It was formerly considered to be conspecific with both the water pipit and rock pipit, before being split into the buff-bellied pipit alongside the American pipit. The differences between the two have long been noted, and are most ...
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.
Eurasian hoopoe, Upupa epops Linnaeus, 1758; Ancient Egyptian: hieroglyph of the bird almost always used as or in the word db "sundried brick" (literal meaning: "one that blocks up"); therefore one of the ancient names must have been Db(3)w/Db(3).t "the one who blocks up (its nest hole)"; a later name would be q(w)q(w)p.t > Coptic koukoupat ...
More than 100 host species have been recorded: meadow pipit, dunnock and Eurasian reed warbler are the most common hosts in northern Europe; garden warbler, meadow pipit, pied wagtail and European robin in central Europe; brambling and common redstart in Finland; and great reed warbler in Hungary. [4]