Anthus campestris
Silhouette: Susan Murphy (original photograph), T. Michael Keesey (vectorization) · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
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.
The tawny pipit was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. He placed it with the larks and pipits in the genus Alauda and coined the binomial name Alauda campestris. Linnaeus specified the type locality as Europe but this has been restricted to Sweden. The specific epithet campestris is Latin meaning "of the fields", from campus meaning "field". The tawny pipit is now one of over 40 species placed in the genus Anthus that was introduced in 1805 by German naturalist Johann Matthäus Bechstein. The species is considered to be monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
This is a large pipit, 16 centimetres (6.3 in) long with wing-span 25–28 centimetres (9.8–11.0 in), but is an undistinguished looking species on the ground, mainly sandy brown above and pale below. It is very similar to Richard's pipit, but is slightly... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cévennes National Park | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 2 | Kiskunság National Park | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 3 | Sierra Nevada National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 4 | Camargue | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 5 | Ranthambore National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Awash National Park | 🇪🇹 Ethiopia | |
| 7 | Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 8 | Sierra de Guadarrama National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 9 | Keoladeo National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Hortobágy National Park | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 11 | Satpura National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 12 | Jim Corbett National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 13 | Biebrza National Park | 🇵🇱 Poland | |
| 14 | Kanha National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 15 | Bandhavgarh National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 16 | Chitwan National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 17 | Doñana National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 18 | Pyrénées National Park | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 19 | Monfragüe National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vasai-Virar | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Lahore | 🇵🇰 Pakistan | |
| 3 | Nashik | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Kalyan-Dombivli | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Abu Dhabi | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates | |
| 6 | Tel Aviv | 🇮🇱 Israel | |
| 7 | Doha | 🇶🇦 Qatar | |
| 8 | Beirut | 🇱🇧 Lebanon | |
| 9 | Pune | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Ramallah | 🇵🇸 Palestine |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Tawny Pipit sighting in Camargue on a given day, based on 155 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 99th most-seen of the 212 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Tawny Pipit in Camargue on a given day, against under 5% in August and October–March, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Tawny Pipit sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Among the best
Of the 19 parks where we can rate Tawny Pipit sightings, Camargue ranks 4th at about 10%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Cévennes National Park (France, about 10%), Kiskunság National Park (Hungary, about 10%) and Sierra Nevada National Park (Spain, about 10%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Tawny Pipit is recorded against all the birds logged in Camargue (155 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
