Red-throated Pipit

Anthus cervinus cervinus (Pallas, 1811)

2012-04-11 Mangistau district, Fetisovo	© Andrey Vilyayev

Description

Streaks on upperparts are lighter, the outer fringes of feathers are darker and more olive, less yellowish, than in rufogularis; the upperparts pattern is less contrast and less clear than in rufogularis.

Distribution

Observed during migration almost everywhere in plain part of Kazakhstan – from Volga-Ural interfluves and lower Ural river eastward to Semipalatinsk. One bird was collecled in lower reaches of Turgay river in October 10, 1975, the other one recorded in September 17 on Kyzylkol lake, in Karatau foothills.

References

Gavrilov E. I., Gavrilov A. E. "The Birds of Kazakhstan". Almaty, 2005. "Птицы Казахстана" том 3. "Наука". Алма-Ата, 1970. В.К.Рябицев. "Птицы Урала, Приуралья и Западной Сибири". Екатеринбург, Изд-во Уральского университета, 2000. Э.И.Гаврилов. "Фауна и распространение птиц Казахстана". Алматы, 1999.