Peruvian Pipit

About the Peruvian Pipit

The Peruvian pipit (Anthus peruvianus) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae, the wagtails and pipits. It is found in Chile and Peru. The Peruvian pipit was described by Francis Nicholson in 1878 with the binomial Anthus peruvianus. For much of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first it was treated as a subspecies of what is now the yellowish pipit (originally A. chii, then A. lutescens, and now again A. chii). Nicholson had noted its similarity to A. chii. It was again recognized as a full species following a study published in 2018.

The Peruvian pipit is monotypic. The Peruvian pipit is one of the smallest members of genus Anthus. It is 13 to 14 cm (5.1 to 5.5 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a brown head with a weak whitish supercilium and a thin white eye-ring. Their upperparts are brown with dark streaks and white "braces" on the shoulders. Their wing coverts have pale tips that show as two wing bars. Their flight feathers are blackish brown with buff edges. Their tail is mostly blackish brown with much white on the outer two pairs of feathers. Their throat and underparts are whitish with dark... Wikipedia →