Paramo Pipit

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Motacillidae

Genus

Anthus

eBird Code

parpip1

Subspecies (4)

• Anthus bogotensis bogotensis

  Andes in western Venezuela (Páramo de Tamá, southern Táchira), central and eastern Andes of Colombia, east slope of the Andes in Ecuador, and Andes of northern Peru (southward to Ancash, presumably this subspecies)

• Anthus bogotensis immaculatus

  east slope of Andes from northern Peru (central Amazonas) southward to Bolivia (La Paz and Cochabamba)

• Anthus bogotensis meridae

  Andes of northwestern Venezuela (Mérida, Táchira, and Trujillo)

• Anthus bogotensis shiptoni

  Andes of northwestern Argentina (Tucumán); records from Bolivia (northward to La Paz) may be of austral migrants, although possibly resident in south (Tarija)