Meadow pipit: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the meadow pipit lives – recorded in 52 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Anthus pratensis
Group	Songbirds & perching birds
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	52 countries
Continents	Africa, Asia, Europe
Mass	2.06 g (birth weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Passeriformes
Family	Motacillidae

Where does the meadow pipit live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the meadow pipit in 52 countries and territories across Africa, Asia and Europe. Wikidata gives its range as: Africa.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a meadow pipit?

Wikidata records the following for the meadow pipit: mass 2.06 g (birth weight).

Is the meadow pipit endangered?

The meadow pipit’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the meadow pipit?

The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis) is a bird in the order Passeriformes and the family Motacillidae, genus Anthus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the meadow pipit

The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis) is a small passerine bird that breeds throughout much of the Palearctic, from south-eastern Greenland and Iceland east to just east of the Ural Mountains in Russia, and south to central France and Romania; an isolated population also occurs in the Caucasus Mountains. It is migratory over most of its range, wintering in southern Europe, North Africa, and south-western Asia, but is resident year-round in western Europe, although even here many birds move to the coast or lowlands in winter.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Meadow pipit (revision 1361100973), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q26956 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).