Tawny Pipit Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Anthus godlewskii
Family : Motacillidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Grasslands
Description : The Tawny Pipit is a faintly streaked, sandy-grey, small terrestrial passerine with a long tail (length 15 cm, weight 20 g, wing 9 cm, bill 2 cm, tarsus 2.6 cm, tail 6.7 cm approximately). It looks entirely sandy-grey. The sandy grey back is faintly streaked, the wing is brown with pale fringes to the feathers, with black-centred median coverts, and white outer tail feathers. It has a prominent creamy square ended supercilium and dark lores. The underparts are pale buffy-white with a little feint streaking on the breast. The bill is bicolured: a dark brown upper mandible and pinkish-flesh lower mandible. It has dark brown irises, yellowish-flesh legs and feet, and dusky claws. It feeds on insects and seeds, and often wags it tail while foraging. It breeds in central Asia in April-August and nests in natural depressions on the ground or a tuft of grass.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
-
Anthus richardi
(Paddyfield Pipit) -
Anthus hodgsoni
(Red‑throated Pipit) -
Ploceus philippinus
(Red Avadavat) -
Lonchura striata
(Scaly‑breasted Munia) -
Amandava amandava
(Indian Silverbill) -
Lonchura atricapilla
(House Sparrow) -
Anthus rufulus
(Blyth's Pipit) -
Euodice malabarica
(White‑rumped Munia) -
Motacilla maderaspatensis
(White Wagtail) -
Motacilla alba
(Common Rosefinch)
Species groups
-
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;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: Andreas Trepte (www.inaturalist.org/people/Andreas Trepte ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;James Lidstermore 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;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: Andreas Trepte (www.inaturalist.org/people/Andreas Trepte ),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;James Lidstermore information, please contact us.