Least ConcernBerthelot's Pipit
Anthus berthelotii
2 countries5 parks
Species group · Birds
WAnimals has 4 species of pipit, in the family Motacillidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 4.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 48 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
It is endemic to the Canaries and Madeira: it lives nowhere else in the world.
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Its Spanish name refers to its habit of moving along tracks and paths, where it is very easy to see despite its unobtrusive plumage.
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It was described in 1862 by the German naturalist Carl Bolle, who dedicated it to Sabin Berthelot, the French naturalist settled on Tenerife and co-author of the Histoire Naturelle des Îles Canaries.
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It sings on a parachuting descent to mark its territory.
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It is one of the commonest hosts of the common cuckoo in northern Europe and on the Iberian Peninsula too.
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In the breeding season its diet consists almost entirely of invertebrates under five millimetres long: flies, midges and beetles.
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It makes a very marked altitudinal migration: it breeds high in the mountains and comes down in winter to rice fields and marshes, sometimes to sea level.
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A 2013 study reconstructed its movements from a hundred years of ringing and recovery data.
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