Anthus furcatus
Silhouette: Susan Murphy (original photograph), T. Michael Keesey (vectorization) · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The short-billed pipit (Anthus furcatus) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae, the wagtails and pipits. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. The short-billed pipit was described in 1837 with the binomial Anthus furcatus, and has retained that name ever since.
Most taxonomic systems treat the short-billed pipit as monotypic. They formerly included what is now the puna pipit (A. brevirostrus) as a subspecies but separated them following a study published in 2018. However, the independent South American Classification Committee retains the puna pipit as a subspecies of the short-billed.
The short-billed pipit is 14 to 14.5 cm (5.5 to 5.7 in) long and weighs about 20 g (0.71 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a blackish brown head with a whitish supercilium, a whitish eye-ring, and a black "moustache". Their upperparts are blackish brown with buffy brown feather edges that give a scaled appearance. Their wings are dusky with thin white edges on the primaries, buffy edges on the secondaries and tertials, and buffy edges on the coverts that show as two wing bars. Their tail is mostly dusky with much... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Península Valdés | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Short-billed Pipit sighting in Península Valdés on a given day, based on 41 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 63rd most-seen of the 96 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March and September–December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Short-billed Pipit in Península Valdés on a given day, against under 5% in January–February, April–May and August, the lowest months. June and July have too few records to rate.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Short-billed 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.
Only Península Valdés, in our data
Península Valdés is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Short-billed Pipit sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Short-billed Pipit is recorded against all the birds logged in Península Valdés (41 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.
