Long‑billed Pipit Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Anthus campestris
Family : Motacillidae
Order : Passeriformes
Class : Aves
Phylum : Chordata
Habitat : Grasslands
Description : The Long-billed Pipit is a sleek, long tailed, pale-brown terrestrial passerine (length 20 cm, wing 10 cm, bill 2 cm, tarsus 3 cm, tail 8.5 cm approximately). It is pale grey-brown above with some fine streaks on the head and mantle and darker wings fringed with buff. The tail is dark brown with buff to rufous outer feathers. It has a buff supercilium, dark lores, and pinkish-buff underparts with a whitish throat and faint brown streaking on the breast. It has a large dark horn bill with a pale base to the lower mandible, dark irises and flesh coloured legs and feet with a short hind claw. It feeds on insects and seeds. It breeds in northwest India in April-August and nests on the ground among grass, small bushes or stones.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Anthus cervinus
(Rosy Pipit) -
Motacilla alba
(Common Rosefinch) -
Lonchura striata
(Scaly‑breasted Munia) -
Euodice malabarica
(White‑rumped Munia) -
Motacilla maderaspatensis
(White Wagtail) -
Anthus godlewskii
(Tawny Pipit) -
Motacilla tschutschensis
(White‑browed Wagtail) -
Lonchura punctulata
(Tricoloured (Black‑headed) Munia) -
Passer montanus
(Forest Wagtail) -
Dendronanthus indicus
(Tree Pipit)
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;taxonomic checklist:P. M. Thompson and S. U. Chowdhury (2020). A checklist of birds of Bangladesh.Birds Bangladesh;photo credit: Sergei Drovetski(www.inaturalist.org/people/Sergei Drovetski),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Giuseppe Speranzamore 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: Sergei Drovetski(www.inaturalist.org/people/Sergei Drovetski),photo shared from iNaturalist, photo copyright reserved according to iNaturalist rules;Giuseppe Speranzamore information, please contact us.