Olive-backed pipit

Olive-backed pipit
A. h. hodgsoni
Mount Phulchowki, Nepal
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Motacillidae
Genus: Anthus
Species:
A. hodgsoni
Binomial name
Anthus hodgsoni

The olive-backed pipit (Anthus hodgsoni) is a small passerine bird of the pipit (Anthus) genus, which breeds across southern, north central and eastern Asia, as well as in the north-eastern European Russia. It is a long-distance migrant moving in winter to southern Asia and Indonesia. Sometimes it is also called Indian pipit or Hodgson's pipit, as well as tree pipit owing to its resemblance with the tree pipit. However, its back is more olive-toned and less streaked than that species, and its head pattern is different with a better-marked supercilium.

The genus name Anthus is from Latin and is the name for a small bird of grasslands. The specific hodgsoni commemorates English diplomat and collector Brian Houghton Hodgson.[4]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Anthus hodgsoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22718550A88191672. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22718550A88191672.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Blackwelder, Eliot (1907). Research in China. Vol. 1, Part 2. p. 493.
  3. ^ Williamson, Walter (1947). "On Anthus hodgsoni". Ibis. 89 (3): 492–494. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1947.tb04366.x.
  4. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London, United Kingdom: Christopher Helm. pp. 49, 193. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.