Bird / Anthus cervinus
Red-Throated Pipit
Lowest risk
Vagrant
The red-throated pipit is a small passerine bird which breeds in the far north of Europe and the Palearctic, with a foothold in northern Alaska. It is a long-distance migrant moving in winter to Africa, south and east Asia and west coast United States. It is a vagrant to western Europe.
- Range length
- 14.5 to 15 cm
- Range wingspan
- 17.0 to 18.3 cm
- Average wingspan
- 17.5 cm
- Breeding interval
- Red-throated pipits breed once yearly, producing one clutch.
- Breeding season
- Available evidence suggests breeding occurs in June and July.
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (female)
- 1 years
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (male)
- 1 years
Gayk, Z. 2008. "Anthus cervinus" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed November 10, 2020 at https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Anthus_cervinus/
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