Anthus peruvianus
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
The Peruvian pipit (Anthus peruvianus) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae, the wagtails and pipits. It is found in Chile and Peru. The Peruvian pipit was described by Francis Nicholson in 1878 with the binomial Anthus peruvianus. For much of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first it was treated as a subspecies of what is now the yellowish pipit (originally A. chii, then A. lutescens, and now again A. chii). Nicholson had noted its similarity to A. chii. It was again recognized as a full species following a study published in 2018.
The Peruvian pipit is monotypic. The Peruvian pipit is one of the smallest members of genus Anthus. It is 13 to 14 cm (5.1 to 5.5 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a brown head with a weak whitish supercilium and a thin white eye-ring. Their upperparts are brown with dark streaks and white "braces" on the shoulders. Their wing coverts have pale tips that show as two wing bars. Their flight feathers are blackish brown with buff edges. Their tail is mostly blackish brown with much white on the outer two pairs of feathers. Their throat and underparts are whitish with dark... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Lima | 🇵🇪 Peru |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Peruvian Pipit sighting in Lima on a given day, based on 206 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 103rd most-seen of the 171 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
Any time of year
In every month with enough records, under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Peruvian Pipit in Lima on a given day, so our monthly data shows no clear season.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Peruvian Pipit sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Lima, in our data
Lima is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Peruvian Pipit sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Peruvian Pipit that you can see in Lima (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Scrub Blackbird (about 80%), Vermilion Flycatcher (about 70%) and Long-tailed Mockingbird (about 60%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Peruvian Pipit is recorded against all the birds logged in Lima (206 verified sightings), 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.
