Yellowish Pipit (Anthus lutescens)
About the Yellowish Pipit
The yellowish pipit (Anthus chii) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae, the wagtails and pipits. It is found in Panama and in every mainland South American country except Ecuador and Chile. The yellowish pipit was described in 1818 with the binomial Anthus chii. For much of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first it bore the binomial Anthus lutescens. A paper published in 2021 showed that by the principle of priority its original binomial was correct and taxonomic systems soon made the change. The yellowish pipit has two subspecies, the nominate A. c. chii (Vieillot, 1818) and A. c. parvus (Lawrence, 1865). What is now the Peruvian pipit (A. peruvianus) was previously treated as a third subspecies. It was separated based on a study published in 2018.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 102 recordings for this species: 8 CC BY-NC-SA · 6 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
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This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.