Rosy Pipit Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Anthus cervinus
Family : Motacillidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Haors
Description : The Rosy Pipit is a small, sleek, streaked olive-brown terrestrial passerine with olive in the wings (length 15 cm, weight 20g, wing 8.7 cm, bill 1.6 cm, tarsus 2.3 cm, tail 6 cm approximately). In the breeding season, the upperpars are grey-olive heavily streaked with blackish, the wing shows an olive-green panel in the secondaries and tertials and double whitish wing-bars, and the brown tail has a white fringe. It has a prominent pinkish supercilium, broad dark eye-stripe and moustachial stripe, and white eye-ring. It has a beautiful pink wash to the throat, breast and upper belly, a white lower belly, and irregular black streaks on the sides of the breast and flanks. It breeds in the Himalayas in May-September. It feeds insects, seeds, and berries from the ground or vegetation.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Anthus roseatus
(Richard's Pipit) -
Motacilla flava
(Grey Wagtail) -
Motacilla cinerea
(Citrine Wagtail) -
Motacilla maderaspatensis
(White Wagtail) -
Lonchura striata
(Scaly‑breasted Munia) -
Lonchura punctulata
(Tricoloured (Black‑headed) Munia) -
Passer montanus
(Forest Wagtail) -
Euodice malabarica
(White‑rumped Munia) -
Anthus godlewskii
(Tawny Pipit) -
Ploceus philippinus
(Red Avadavat)
Species groups
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Bee-eaters -
Booby -
frigatebird -
phalarope -
tropicbird -
Martins and Swallows -
Crows, Drongos & allies -
Woodpeckers -
Eared Nightjars -
Ibises & Spoonbills -
Trogons -
Coucals -
Pelicans -
Darters -
Gulls -
Warblers and allies -
Flowerpeckers & Sunbirds -
Sparrows, Wagtails, Pipits a& allies -
moonbird -
Hawks & Eagles -
Snipes, Sandpipers, Plovers & allies -
Small Kingfishers -
Cisticola & Prinia -
Plovers & Lapwings -
Rails, Gallinules & Coots -
Tits -
Parrots -
Rosefinches and Buntings -
Bustards -
Grebes -
Pheasants & Partridges -
Old World flycatcher -
Starlings and Mynas -
Hornbills -
Buttonquails -
Rollers -
Bluebirds -
Crested Kingfishers -
Cormorants -
Pigeons and Doves -
Jacanas -
Typical Owl -
Finfoots &booby -
Flamingo -
Herons and Bitterns -
Treecreepers -
Nuthatch -
Barbets -
Treeswifts -
Swifts -
Crab-plovers, Coursers and Pratincoles -
Bulbuls -
Frogmouths -
Larks -
Storks -
Broadbills -
Thick-knees -
Painted-snipes -
Nightjars -
Barn-owls -
Large-billed Kingfishers -
Falcons -
Pittas -
Cranes -
Whistling-ducks -
Ducks, Geese & Swans -
Hoopoe
References:
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;photo credit: Kelvin Joshua Che(www.inaturalist.org/people/ Kelvin Joshua Che),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;bird song owner:Teet Sirotkin(www.xeno-canto.org/Teet Sirotkin), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; more information, please contact us.
description written by:Sharmin Rahman,Department of Zoology, Jagannath University,Dhaka;information source: Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol-26, iucnredlist.org;photo credit: Kelvin Joshua Che(www.inaturalist.org/people/ Kelvin Joshua Che),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;bird song owner:Teet Sirotkin(www.xeno-canto.org/Teet Sirotkin), bird sound copyright reserved according to www.xeno-canto.org rules; more information, please contact us.