Bird / Anthus spinoletta
Water Pipit
Lowest risk
Vagrant
The water pipit is a small passerine bird which breeds in the mountains of Southern Europe and the Palearctic eastwards to China. It is a short-distance migrant; many birds move to lower altitudes or wet open lowlands in winter.
- Range depth
- 0 to 0 m
- Range mass
- 19.5 to 24 g
- Average mass
- 23.9 g
- Range length
- 127 to 222 mm
- Range wingspan
- 21 to 26 cm
- Breeding interval
- Water pipits breed twice a year.
- Breeding season
- These birds start breeding in late May or early June.
- Range eggs per season
- 2 to 7
- Average time to hatching
- 15 days
- Average fledging age
- 15 days
- Range lifespan
Status: wild - 8.8 (high) years
- Average territory size
- 160 m^2
Cheng, K. 2014. "Anthus spinoletta" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed November 10, 2020 at https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Anthus_spinoletta/
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