Tree Pipit
Anthus trivialis
Also known as: Brown Tree-Pipit, Piula Dels Arbres
Habitat
Ground
Diet
Invertebrate
Active Time
Diurnal
Size
23 g
About This Species
A streaky, ground-feeding songbird of open woodland edges, heath and scrub with scattered trees across Europe and western Asia, it is most conspicuous during its parachuting song flight, rising from a perch and gliding back down while singing. It walks rather than hops while foraging for insects on bare or short ground, often near woodland margins in spring and early summer. Migration brings it through open country more widely in April and again in autumn as it heads to winter in sub-Saharan Africa.
Ethical Viewing Guidelines
- A distance of 15-20 metres from a displaying male is enough to watch the full song flight without cutting it short, and nests on the ground in long grass or heather are very easily trampled if approached directly.
- Nests and eggs are protected under wildlife legislation across most of its European breeding range while birds are nesting.
- Keeping to paths through heath and woodland-edge habitat during the spring breeding season is the most practical way to avoid disturbing ground nests.
Seasonal Activity
1,334,257 sightings · 2000–2026
Citizen science records via GBIF
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Motacillidae
Traits
- Diet
- Invertebrate
- Foraging
- Ground
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Body mass
- 23 g
Photo
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Occurrence data from GBIF.