Anthus rubescens
(Tunstall, 1771) · speciesAt a glance
Sources11 archives
Databases and archives Anthus rubescens's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation12 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 237 104 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI19 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics19 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
IOC World Bird ListIOCbird checklist↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
The buff-bellied pipit or American pipit (Anthus rubescens) is a small songbird found on both sides of the northern Pacific. It was first described by Marmaduke Tunstall in his 1771 Ornithologia Britannica. It was formerly classified as a form of the water pipit. It is known as "American pipit" in North America and "buff-bellied pipit" in Eurasia.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology13
Life cycle & reproduction11
Diet & foraging7
Habitat & environment4
Other traits1
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Anthus rubescens has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
The complete instruction manual Anthus rubescens carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type1 237 104 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions37 of 62 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 484 |
| Washington State University, Charles R. Conner Museumlocation not on record | 184 |
| Seattle, US | 175 |
| Wuzhou, CN | 81 |
| Louisiana State University, Museum of Zoologylocation not on record | 81 |
| Edmonton, CA | 78 |
| Moore Laboratory of Zoology, Occidental Collegelocation not on record | 73 |
| München, DE | 63 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 62 |
| Philip L. Wright Zoological Museumlocation not on record | 57 |
| Tacoma, US | 42 |
| NSMKlocation not on record | 42 |
| Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 37 |
| San Diego, US | 29 |
| Chicago, US | 29 |
| Berkeley, US | 28 |
| South Kensington, GB | 25 |
| Mongolian Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 23 |
| Cambridge, US | 19 |
| Albany, US | 16 |
| Vancouver, CA | 16 |
| Zacatecas, MX | 16 |
| Delaware Museum of Nature and Sciencelocation not on record | 15 |
| University of Nebraska State Museumlocation not on record | 14 |
| Royal Saskatchewan Museumlocation not on record | 13 |
| University of California Los Angeleslocation not on record | 11 |
| New Haven, US | 11 |
| Iowa City, US | 11 |
| Ithaca, US | 10 |
| Washington, US | 9 |
| 8 | |
| St. Paul, US | 7 |
| Mexico City, MX | 6 |
| Los Angeles, US | 6 |
| CASlocation not on record | 6 |
| ASNHClocation not on record | 5 |
| Denver, US | 5 |
| RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record | 5 |
| Brussels, BE | 5 |
| Saint John, CA | 5 |
| Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collectionlocation not on record | 5 |
| US | 4 |
| Tall Timbers Research Stationlocation not on record | 3 |
| Central Michigan University Museum of Cultural and Natural Historylocation not on record | 3 |
| Ohio State University - Bird Division, Columbus, OH (OSUM)location not on record | 3 |
| Ciudad de México, MX | 3 |
| Helsinki, FI | 3 |
| University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrateslocation not on record | 2 |
| Morelia, MX | 2 |
| Paris, FR | 2 |
| Chicago, US | 2 |
| Mexico City, MX | 2 |
| Facultad de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja Californialocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad Católica de Manizaleslocation not on record | 1 |
| Santa Cruz, US | 1 |
| Cincinnati, US | 1 |
| University of Victorialocation not on record | 1 |
| EL PASO, US | 1 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Tuxtla Gutiérrez, MX | 1 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 1 |
| Stockholm, SE | 1 |
Where the DNA of Anthus rubescens was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.