deserts, rainforest and the mainland of Antarctica.

They are slender, often drab, ground-feeding insectivores of open country. Like their relatives in the family, the pipits are monogamous and territorial. Pipits are ground nesters, laying up to six speckled eggs.

Taxonomy and systematics

The genus Anthus was introduced in 1805 by German naturalist Johann Matthäus Bechstein.

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