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Huy Nam Dang National Park, Thailand

Anthus hodgsoni

[edit] Identification

15cm

• Upperparts greenish brown streaked with darker brown
• Bold white supercilium
• White double wingbar and outer rectrices
• Underparts white to buff streaked with dark brown on breast and flanks
  

Sexes similar.

[edit] Distribution

Widespread throughout Asia and the northeast of Russia.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• A. h. yunnanensis:

• North-eastern Eurasia; winters in India, Myanmar, Philippines and Borneo

• A. h. hodgsoni (berezowskii):

• Himalayas to China and Japan; winters in south-eastern Asia

A third subspecies, berezowskii is not recognised by all authorities^[2]

[edit] Habitat

Open woodland and orchards, gardens, grasslands, wetlands and town parks.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

Diet includes insects, grass and weed seeds.

[edit] Breeding

It builds a cupshaped nest of moss and grass placed on the ground under a tuft of grass or boulder. The 3-5 eggs are dark brown, spotted darker. Usually two broods are raised.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia
4. BF Member observations

• List of references

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