Meadow Pipit, Anthus pratensis, is a species of passerine bird in the wagtail and pipit family found in grassland, heathland and shrub and wetland ecosystems. This species is widespread across Europe. Its range extends from eastern Greenland (Denmark) in the west, across northern Europe to the central and southern high mountains and to the River Ob, east of the Urals, Russia. This species breeds in a wide range of open habitats, such as tundra, moorland and heathland, bogs, saltmarshes, dunes, coastal meadows, hillsides, forest clearings, fallow land and occasionally in arable land. In northern Europe peatland is a preferred habitat, while in the British uplands it favours a mosaic of heather (Calluna), bog and grassland. In the winter it is also found along seashores (European Red List 2015).

Anthus pratensis has a breeding population size of 4250000-7200000 pairs and a breeding range size of 1990000 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Decreasing in the short term and Decreasing in the long term.

The EU population status of Anthus pratensis was assessed as Threatened, as the species meets one or more of the IUCN Red List criteria for threatened at the EU27 scale.