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title: "Olive-backed Pipit"
description: "Anthus hodgsoni — Vogels. The olive-backed pipit (Anthus hodgsoni) is a small passerine bird of the pipit (Anthus) genus, which breeds across southern, north central and eastern Asia, as well as in the north-eastern European Russia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/olive-backed-pipit
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Olive-backed Pipit

> Anthus hodgsoni — Vogels. The olive-backed pipit (Anthus hodgsoni) is a small passerine bird of the pipit (Anthus) genus, which breeds across southern, north central and eastern Asia, as well as in the north-eastern European Russia.

- Scientific name: *Anthus hodgsoni*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Weiden en velden)
- iNaturalist observations: 8623
- Wikidata: [Q726873](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q726873)
- iNaturalist taxon: [13724](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/13724)

## Names

- en: Olive-backed Pipit
- de: Waldpieper
- es: Bisbita de Oriente
- fr: Pipit à dos olive
- pt: Petinha-silvestre
- pl: Świergotek tajgowy

## Countries with the most observations

CN (1808), RU (1219), HK (1189), IN (610), KR (486), TW (420), JP (286), TH (251), NP (127), US (80), VN (68), BT (66)

## Summary

The olive-backed pipit (Anthus hodgsoni) is a small passerine bird of the pipit (Anthus) genus, which breeds across southern, north central and eastern Asia, as well as in the north-eastern European Russia. It is a long-distance migrant moving in winter to southern Asia and Indonesia. Sometimes it is also called Indian pipit or Hodgson's pipit, as well as tree pipit owing to its resemblance with the tree pipit. However, its back is more olive-toned and less streaked than that species, and its head pattern is different with a better-marked supercilium.
The genus name Anthus is from Latin and is the name for a small…

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

## Photo

![Olive-backed Pipit](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/olive-backed-pipit/medium.jpg)

Photo: Сергей · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/278931193

## Machine access

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