Editing Red-throated pipit

{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{Speciesbox
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2019 |title=''Anthus cervinus'' |volume=2019 |page=e.T22718560A137415441 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T22718560A137415441.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
| image = Red-throated Pipit.jpg
| taxon = Anthus cervinus
| authority = ([[Peter Simon Pallas|Pallas]], 1811)
| range_map = AnthusCervinusIUCN.svg
| range_map_caption = Range of ''A. cervinus''{{leftlegend|#00FF00|Breeding|outline=gray}} {{leftlegend|#00FFFF|Passage|outline=gray}} {{leftlegend|#007FFF|Non-breeding|outline=gray}} 
}}

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 [[bird migration|migrant]], wintering to Africa and [[South-East Asia]] and the west coast of the United States{{refnec|date=March 2025}}. It is vagrant to Western Europe.

==Etymology==
The scientific name is from [[Latin]]. The [[genus|generic name]] ''Anthus'' is the name for a small bird of grasslands, and the [[species|specific 
 name]] ''cervinus'' means "stag-coloured", from ''cervus'',  "[[stag]]".<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], 97 }}</ref>

==Description==
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.<ref name=NatureGate>{{cite web |url=http://www.luontoportti.com/suomi/en/linnut/red-throated-pipit |title=Red-throated Pipit: ''Anthus cervinus''|publisher=NatureGate |access-date=2013-12-13}}</ref>

==Behaviour==
[[File:Anthus cervinus MHNT.ZOO.2010.11.205.17.jpg|thumb|''Anthus cervinus'' - [[MHNT]]]]
The red-throated pipit is native to the boreal regions of Northern Europe and Asia. The breeding habitat is open country including mountains, marshland, and tundra. The nest is built on the ground, often beside a tussock of grass, on rough grassland, or on a hummock in a marsh. It is made of dry grasses and sedges with a soft lining of reindeer hair or down. Four to six eggs are laid and incubated by the female for nearly two weeks. The young are fledged and ready to leave the nest about 12 days later. The red-throated pipit is insectivorous, like its relatives, but also eats seeds.<ref name=NatureGate/>

==Status==

The red-throated pipit has a very large range and the global population has been estimated to be about two million individuals. It is rated as being of [[least concern]] by the [[IUCN]], as its population is believed to be stable, and it faces no particular threats.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=8450 |title=Species factsheet: ''Anthus cervinus'' |publisher=BirdLife International |access-date=2013-12-13}}</ref>

==Gallery==
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File:Anthus cervinus by pdsoki.jpg|Red-throated pipit
Image:Red-throated Pipit.ogv|Thumamah, KSA 1992
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==References==
{{Commons category|Anthus cervinus}}
{{Wikispecies|Anthus cervinus}}
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