Anthus trivialis
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In 3 days <5% in a week ~10%
The tree pipit (Anthus trivialis) is a small passerine bird that breeds throughout most of Europe and the Palearctic as far east as the East Siberian Mountains. It is a long-distance migrant, migrating in winter to Africa and southern Asia. The scientific name is from Latin: anthus is the name of a small bird of grasslands, and the specific trivialis means "common".
The breeding habitat is open woodland and scrub. The nest is placed on the ground and usually 4–6 eggs are laid. This species is insectivorous like its relatives, but will also eat seeds. The tree pipit was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Alauda trivialis. Linnaeus noted that the species occurred in Sweden. The specific epithet trivialis is Latin meaning "common" or "ordinary" from Latin trivium meaning "public street". The tree pipit is now placed in the genus Anthus that was introduced in 1805 by the German naturalist Johann Matthäus Bechstein.
Two subspecies are recognised: Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kalyan-Dombivli | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Kuwait City | 🇰🇼 Kuwait | |
| 3 | Nashik | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Abu Dhabi | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates | |
| 5 | Istanbul | 🇹🇷 Turkey | |
| 6 | Ludhiana | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Jerusalem | 🇮🇱 Israel | |
| 8 | Ramallah | 🇵🇸 Palestine | |
| 9 | Vasai-Virar | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Tel Aviv | 🇮🇱 Israel |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Tree Pipit sighting in Nairobi National Park on a given day, based on 28 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 297th most-seen of the 371 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, and over a week to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March and April
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Tree Pipit in Nairobi National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May to February, the lowest months. Those are among Nairobi National Park's wettest months, with about 130 mm of rain a month against 15 mm in July.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Tree 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.
34th of 47
Of the 47 parks where we can rate Tree Pipit sightings, Nairobi National Park ranks 34th at under 5%. The best odds are in Mercantour National Park (France, about 40%), Vanoise National Park (France, about 20%) and Cairngorms National Park (United Kingdom, about 20%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Tree Pipit is recorded against all the birds logged in Nairobi National Park (28 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.
