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Birds

Olive-backed
Pipit

Least Concern

Stable

Olive-backed Pipit

Anthus hodgsoni

It breeds across South, north Central and East Asia, as well as in the northeast of European Russia. It is a long-distance migrant moving in winter to southern Asia and Indonesia. Sometimes it is also called Indian pipit or Hodgson's pipit, as well as tree pipit owing to its resemblance with the tree pipit. However, its back is more olive-toned and less streaked than that species, and its head pattern is different with a better-marked supercilium.

Greenish brown streaked with darker brown above. Supercilium, double wingbar and outer rectrices whitish. Whitish to buff below streaked with dark brown on breast and flanks. Sexes alike.

Indian Pipit, Hodgson's Pipit

Regional Names
  • French:
    Pipit à dos olive
  • Malayalam:
    പച്ച വരമ്പൻ
  • Marathi:
    शेवाळी तिरचिमणी, हिरवट पाठीची चरचरी
  • Nepali:
    रूख चुइयाँ
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Taxanomy

PASSERIFORMES
MOTACILLIDAE
Anthus hodgsoni

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