| South Georgia Pipit | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Motacillidae |
| Genus: | Anthus |
| Species: | A. antarcticus |
| Binomial name | |
| Anthus antarcticus Cabanis, 1884 |
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The South Georgia Pipit (Anthus antarcticus) is a sparrow sized bird, only found on the South Georgia archipelago. It is the Antarctic's only song bird, and South Georgia's only passerine, and one of the few non-seabirds of the region.
It builds nests from dried grass, and lays four eggs a year. It lives off insects and spiders, and beach debris.
It has been threatened by the human introduction to the islands of rats, and also by environmental damage caused by humans themselves.