Data Sheet Info

Red-throated Pipit, Anthus cervinus, is a species of passerine bird in the wagtail and pipit family found in heathland and shrub and wetland ecosystems. It is a widespread summer visitor to northern Fennoscandia and Russia. This species breeds in the arctic tundra. It favours willow (Salix) mires with small creeks, sedge (Carex) marshes and peat mounds, both above the treeline and in the mountain birch (Betula) forest (European Red List 2015).

Anthus cervinus has a breeding population size of 1000-2600 pairs and a breeding range size of 12000 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Unknown in the short term and Decreasing in the long term.

The EU population status for Anthus cervinus is Unknown, as the data reported were not sufficient to assess the population status of the species.