Red-throated Pipit

Anthus cervinus

Least ConcernNear ThreatenedVulnerableEndangeredCritically Endangered

KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
PhylumChordata (Chordates)
ClassAves (Birds)
OrderPasseriformes (Perching Birds)
FamilyMotacillidae (Wagtails and Pipits)
GenusAnthus (Pipits)
SpeciesAnthus cervinus (Red-throated Pipit)

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data

at Camargue

4 Verified sightings at Camargue From 2019 to 2026

565 Verified sightings across all 33 parks From 2019 to 2026

☀️ Diurnal When it's spotted during daytime hours (6am–6pm)

About the Red-throated Pipit

The red-throated pipit (Anthus cervinus) 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, wintering to Africa and South-East Asia and western Alaska in North America. It is vagrant to Western Europe.

The scientific name is from Latin. The generic name Anthus is the name for a small bird of grasslands, and the specific name cervinus means "stag-coloured", from cervus, "stag". This is a small pipit, with an adult easily identified in the breeding season by its brick-red face and throat. In other plumages, this is an undistinguished-looking species, heavily streaked brown above, with whitish mantle stripes, and with black markings on a white background below. It is very similar in appearance to the meadow pipit, and in the autumn, it much resembles the tree pipit, but has an altogether more striped appearance because of the larger numbers of streaks on the cap, back, flank, rump, and chest. The flight of the red-throated pipit is strong and direct, and it gives a characteristic psii call as it flies.

The red-throated pipit is native... Wikipedia →

Closest Relatives at Camargue

Anthus pratensis

Daily sighting probability ~20% · Possible

Anthus campestris

Daily sighting probability ~10% · With luck

Anthus spinoletta

Daily sighting probability <5% · Rare

Anthus trivialis

Daily sighting probability <5% · Rare

Anthus richardi

Daily sighting probability Insufficient data

Motacilla flava

Daily sighting probability ~30% · Possible

Motacilla alba

Daily sighting probability ~10% · With luck

LC Endemic

Motacilla cinerea

Daily sighting probability <5% · Rare

Cettia cetti

Daily sighting probability ~50% · Likely

LC Endemic

Curruca melanocephala

Daily sighting probability ~50% · Likely

Hirundo rustica

Daily sighting probability ~40% · Likely

Galerida cristata

Daily sighting probability ~40% · Likely

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Global Distribution

Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.

where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is) · parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there

Parks Where Found

#	Park	Country	Daily sighting probability
1	Bale Mountains National Park	🇪🇹 Ethiopia	~20%
2	Kiskunság National Park	🇭🇺 Hungary	~10%
3	Fertő-Hanság National Park	🇭🇺 Hungary	<5%
4	Hortobágy National Park	🇭🇺 Hungary	<5%
5	Khao Yai National Park	🇹🇭 Thailand	<5%
6	Nairobi National Park	🇰🇪 Kenya	<5%
7	Amboseli National Park	🇰🇪 Kenya	<5%
8	Białowieża National Park	🇵🇱 Poland	<5%
9	Masai Mara National Reserve	🇰🇪 Kenya	<5%
10	Biebrza National Park	🇵🇱 Poland	<5%
11	Serengeti National Park	🇹🇿 Tanzania	<5%
12	Taroko National Park	🇹🇼 Taiwan	<5%
13	Tsavo East National Park	🇰🇪 Kenya	<5%
14	Tsavo West National Park	🇰🇪 Kenya	<5%
15	Wadden Sea National Park	🇩🇪 Germany	<5%
16	Ngorongoro Conservation Area	🇹🇿 Tanzania	<5%
17	Keoladeo National Park	🇮🇳 India	Insufficient data
18	Great Bear Rainforest	🇨🇦 Canada	Insufficient data
19	Triglav National Park	🇸🇮 Slovenia	Insufficient data
20	Aberdare National Park	🇰🇪 Kenya	Insufficient data
21	Royal Bardia National Park	🇳🇵 Nepal	Insufficient data
22	Niokolo-Koba National Park	🇸🇳 Senegal	Insufficient data
23	Camargue	🇫🇷 France	Insufficient data
24	El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve	🇲🇽 Mexico	Insufficient data
25	Murchison Falls National Park	🇺🇬 Uganda	Insufficient data
26	Chitwan National Park	🇳🇵 Nepal	Insufficient data
27	Khao Sok National Park	🇹🇭 Thailand	Insufficient data
28	Kaeng Krachan National Park	🇹🇭 Thailand	Insufficient data
29	Lake Nakuru National Park	🇰🇪 Kenya	Insufficient data
30	Samburu National Reserve	🇰🇪 Kenya	Insufficient data
31	Redwood National Park	🇺🇸 United States	Insufficient data
32	Bavarian Forest National Park	🇩🇪 Germany	Insufficient data
33	Pacific Rim National Park Reserve	🇨🇦 Canada	Insufficient data

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Red-throated Pipit

About the Red-throated Pipit

Closest Relatives at Camargue

Meadow Pipit

Tawny Pipit

Water Pipit

Tree Pipit

Richard's Pipit

Western Yellow Wagtail

White Wagtail

Grey Wagtail

Cetti's Warbler

Sardinian Warbler

Barn Swallow

Crested Lark

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found