Order Passeriformes Genus Anthus Higher classification Pipit | Phylum Chordata Scientific name Anthus hodgsoni Rank Species | |
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Similar Bird, Pipit, Red‑throated pipit, Water pipit, Richard's pipit |
Olive backed pipit
The olive-backed pipit (Anthus hodgsoni) is a small passerine bird of the pipit (Anthus) genus, which breeds across South, north Central and East Asia, as well as in the northeast of 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.
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- Olive backed pipit
- Olive backed pipit wells woods 19th september 2014
- Distribution
- Description
- Nesting
- References

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.

Olive backed pipit wells woods 19th september 2014
Distribution

Description

Nesting

The scientific name of this bird commemorates the British ornithologist Brian Houghton Hodgson.