When do tree pipits arrive in and leave the UK?
A summer visitor in the records: sightings jump in mid April and fall away after early October.
- When do tree pipits arrive in the UK?
- In the GBIF records, UK sightings of the tree pipit rise sharply from mid April and are near their peak by mid April.
- When do tree pipits leave the UK?
- UK sightings fall away after early October.
- Where do tree pipits go in winter?
- From December to February the strongest signal in the effort-adjusted GBIF records is around Kenya and Nigeria. The globe shows the whole winter range month by month.
Tree pipit in the UK, month by month
Bars: this speciesā share of all UK bird records in GBIF (CC0/CC BY 4.0 only), by month, scaled to the peak month. Based on 29,029 UK records (occurrence search API, country=GB, weekly). Dates come from sightings, not a survey, so treat them as a guide.
See the tree pipit migration on the 3D globe ā
About the tree pipit
The tree pipit is a small passerine bird that breeds throughout most of Europe and the Palearctic as far east as the East Siberian Mountains. It is a long-distance migrant, migrating in winter to Africa and southern Asia. ā¦
From the Wikipedia article āTree pipitā (revision 1365997034), CC BY-SA 4.0, shortened at a sentence end. Winter/summer areas: country containing the monthly hotspot of effort-adjusted GBIF records, using Natural Earth boundaries (public domain).
Other UK summer visitors: see the full list with arrival and departure dates.