Editing Richard's pipit (section)

{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{Speciesbox
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2019 |title=''Anthus richardi'' |volume=2019 |page=e.T103821389A155458715 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T103821389A155458715.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}</ref>
| image = Anthus richardi - Laem Pak Bia.jpg
| image_caption = In Thailand
| taxon = Anthus richardi
| authority = [[Louis Pierre Vieillot|Vieillot]], 1818
}}

'''Richard's pipit''' ('''''Anthus richardi''''') is a medium-sized [[passerine]] [[bird]] which breeds in open grasslands in the East [[Palearctic]]. It is a long-distance [[bird migration|migrant]] moving to open lowlands in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It is a rare but regular vagrant to western Europe.

The genus name ''Anthus'' is the [[Latin]] name for a small bird of grasslands. The English name and ''richardi'' are for the French naturalist Charles Richard (1745–1835), director of postal services at [[Lunéville]] and friend of [[Francois Levaillant]].<ref name =job>{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A. | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm | location = London, United Kingdom | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n49 49], 335 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|year=2015|title=The identity of Richard of Richard's pipit (Anthus richardi Vieillot, 1818)|journal=Archives of Natural History|volume=42|issue=1|pages=85–90|doi=10.3366/anh.2015.0281|author1=Mearns, Richard|author2=Gouraud, Christophe|author3=Chevrier, Laurent}}</ref>

It belongs to the [[pipit]] genus ''Anthus'' in the family [[Motacillidae]]. It was formerly lumped together with the [[Australasian pipit|Australasian]], [[African pipit|African]], [[mountain pipit|mountain]] and [[paddyfield pipit]]s in a single species: Richard's pipit, ''Anthus novaeseelandiae''. These pipits are now commonly considered to be separate species although the African and paddyfield pipits are sometimes treated as part of ''A. richardi''.