Anthus cervinus
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
The red-throated pipit (Anthus cervinus) is a small passerine bird, which breeds in the far north of Europe and the Palearctic, with a foothold in northern Alaska. It is a long-distance migrant, wintering to Africa and South-East Asia and western Alaska in North America. It is vagrant to Western Europe.
The scientific name is from Latin. The generic name Anthus is the name for a small bird of grasslands, and the specific name cervinus means "stag-coloured", from cervus, "stag". This is a small pipit, with an adult easily identified in the breeding season by its brick-red face and throat. In other plumages, this is an undistinguished-looking species, heavily streaked brown above, with whitish mantle stripes, and with black markings on a white background below. It is very similar in appearance to the meadow pipit, and in the autumn, it much resembles the tree pipit, but has an altogether more striped appearance because of the larger numbers of streaks on the cap, back, flank, rump, and chest. The flight of the red-throated pipit is strong and direct, and it gives a characteristic psii call as it flies.
The red-throated pipit is native... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bale Mountains National Park | 🇪🇹 Ethiopia | |
| 2 | Kiskunság National Park | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 3 | Hortobágy National Park | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 4 | Amboseli National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 5 | Nairobi National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 6 | Aberdare National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 7 | Tsavo East National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 8 | Masai Mara National Reserve | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 9 | Biebrza National Park | 🇵🇱 Poland | |
| 10 | Camargue | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 11 | Taroko National Park | 🇹🇼 Taiwan | |
| 12 | Fertő-Hanság National Park | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 13 | Khao Yai National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 14 | Ngorongoro Conservation Area | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 15 | Wadden Sea National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Novosibirsk | 🇷🇺 Russia | |
| 2 | Riyadh | 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia | |
| 3 | Tel Aviv | 🇮🇱 Israel | |
| 4 | Luxor | 🇪🇬 Egypt | |
| 5 | Manama | 🇧🇭 Bahrain | |
| 6 | Yekaterinburg | 🇷🇺 Russia | |
| 7 | Kathmandu | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 8 | Abu Dhabi | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates | |
| 9 | Jerusalem | 🇮🇱 Israel | |
| 10 | Beirut | 🇱🇧 Lebanon |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Red-throated Pipit sighting in Luxor on a given day, based on 14 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 58th most-seen of the 82 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October and December–February
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Red-throated Pipit in Luxor on a given day, against under 5% in March–September and November, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Red-throated Pipit sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Among the best
Of the 35 cities where we can rate Red-throated Pipit sightings, Luxor ranks 4th at about 10%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Novosibirsk (Russia, about 10%), Riyadh (Saudi Arabia, about 10%) and Tel Aviv (Israel, about 10%).
Same family: Motacillidae
The closest relatives of the Red-throated Pipit that you can see in Luxor (family Motacillidae, Wagtails and Pipits) are White Wagtail (about 30%) and Western Yellow Wagtail (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Red-throated Pipit is recorded against all the birds logged in Luxor (14 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.
