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Field Guide for all the Birds of North America


American Pipit

4 Letter (english names) Alpha Code: AMPI (1)

Pipit d'Amérique

Anthus rubescens

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Life, Habitat & Pictures of the North American Pipits

B L W W W Family Latin Name
6.5" 16.5cm 10.5" 26.7cm 0.75 oz. 21.3g Motacillidae Anthus rubescens

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Distribution: The American Pipit is the most common pipit seen in North America. These birds nest on the tundra in the high arctic. They are seen in Newfoundland and Labrador, right across the most northern regions of Quebec and around the shores of Hudson Bay and Baffin Island. It is also seen across all the territories and Alaska and south through British Columbia as well as touching into Alberta, Montana and Wyoming. During the non-breeding season they are found from California across the southern states to the tip of southern Florida.


References to Other Bird Sites:

Avibase - the world bird database This site provides the user with a complete list of bird species, broken down per country, or in the example of the US or Canada, per state and province. Here, bird species names are available in other languages, a great asset to be used as a translation of foreign bird names.

ABA - American Birding Association This site represents an organization that maintains official records of all birds species that have been proven to have been seen inside the perimeters of the North American Continent and the surrounding bodies of water. Regular revised versions are posted to keep the bird list current at all times. This is the list used by all serious birders over their lifetime. You may be aware of the movie called the "Big Year". It was with this list that all the competing birders used in an attempt to set a new record as to how many bird species that could be seen by an individual birder in one calendar year.

I hope you will take advantage of these suggested websites. I have used each of them, in one way or another, throughout the years in my quest to better identify and understand our fine feathered friends.


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