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title: "Tawny Pipit"
description: "Anthus campestris — Uccelli. The tawny pipit (Anthus campestris) is a medium-large passerine bird which breeds in much of the central Palearctic from northwest Africa and Portugal to Central Siberia and on to Inner Mongolia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/tawny-pipit
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Tawny Pipit

> Anthus campestris — Uccelli. The tawny pipit (Anthus campestris) is a medium-large passerine bird which breeds in much of the central Palearctic from northwest Africa and Portugal to Central Siberia and on to Inner Mongolia.

- Scientific name: *Anthus campestris*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Prati e campi)
- iNaturalist observations: 5575
- Wikidata: [Q27226](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27226)
- iNaturalist taxon: [13712](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/13712)

## Names

- en: Tawny Pipit
- de: Brachpieper
- es: Bisbita campestre
- fr: Pipit rousseline
- pt: Petinha-dos-campos
- pl: Świergotek polny

## Countries with the most observations

RU (787), FR (707), IN (489), ES (477), IT (284), UA (275), PT (238), DZ (179), KZ (163), GR (125), RO (101), HR (76)

## Summary

The tawny pipit (Anthus campestris) is a medium-large passerine bird which breeds in much of the central Palearctic from northwest Africa and Portugal to Central Siberia and on to Inner Mongolia. It is a migrant moving in winter to tropical Africa and the Indian subcontinent.

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

## Photo

![Tawny Pipit](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/tawny-pipit/medium.jpg)

Photo: Лариса Артемьева · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/166032157

## Machine access

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