Common Name
Australasian Pipit
Alternate name
Richard's Pipit, Australian Pipit
Comment
Widespread and not uncommon.
Stronghold population
False
Regionally significant/rationale
False
Restricted distribution/rationale
False
Historical abundance
Increasing
Local distribution
Common sedentary species that inhabits most grasslands including pasture, coastal dunes and roadsides
Known location
Oxenford, Merrimac, Surfers Paradise, Burleigh Heads, Southport, Ormeau, South Stradbroke Island, Ja
Other locality
Widespread and not uncommon on short grasslands, most of which are artificially created. A beneficiary of clearing.
General ecology
Grassland, paddocks.
Specific ecology
Short grass.
Habitat comment
Forest clearing has benefited this bird, by creating short grasslands, its preferred habitat. This habitat would have probably been restricted to coastal saltmarshes prior to European settlement.
