About Anthus cervinus (Pallas, 1811)
This is a small pipit species. Adult red-throated pipits are easy to identify during the breeding season by their brick-red face and throat. In other plumage stages, the species has an undistinguished appearance: it is heavily streaked brown on its upperparts, has whitish mantle stripes, and has black markings on a white underpart background. It is very similar in appearance to the meadow pipit, and strongly resembles the tree pipit in autumn. However, it has an overall more striped appearance, due to a larger number of streaks on its cap, back, flank, rump, and chest. Its flight is strong and direct, and it gives a characteristic "psii" call while flying.
