---
title: "Australischer Spornpieper"
description: "Anthus novaeseelandiae — Vögel. The New Zealand pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae) is a fairly small passerine bird of open country in New Zealand and outlying islands."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/new-zealand-pipit
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Australischer Spornpieper

> Anthus novaeseelandiae — Vögel. The New Zealand pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae) is a fairly small passerine bird of open country in New Zealand and outlying islands.

- Scientific name: *Anthus novaeseelandiae*
- Category: `birds` (Vögel)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Wiese & Feld)
- iNaturalist observations: 2796
- Wikidata: [Q782023](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q782023)
- iNaturalist taxon: [204462](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/204462)

## Names

- en: New Zealand Pipit
- de: Australischer Spornpieper
- fr: Pipit de Nouvelle-Zélande
- pl: Świergotek nowozelandzki

## Countries with the most observations

NZ (2542)

## Summary

The New Zealand pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae) is a fairly small passerine bird of open country in New Zealand and outlying islands. It belongs to the pipit genus Anthus in the family Motacillidae.
It was formerly lumped together with the Richard's, African, Mountain and Paddyfield pipits in a single species: Richard's pipit, Anthus novaeseelandiae. Many authors split the Australasian pipit further into two species: Australian pipit (Anthus australis) in Australia and New Guinea and New Zealand pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae), also called pīhoihoi, in New Zealand.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_pipit

## Photo

![Australischer Spornpieper](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/new-zealand-pipit/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jaco Grundling · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/119001226

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/new-zealand-pipit?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).