The red-throated pipit (Anthus cervinus) is a small passerine bird, which breeds in the far north of Europe and the Palearctic, with a foothold in northern Alaska.

It is a long-distance migrant, moving in winter to Africa, South and East Asia and the West Coast United States.

The generic name Anthus is the name for a small bird of grasslands, and the specific name cervinus means "stag-coloured", from cervus, "stag".

[2] This is a small pipit, with an adult easily identified in the breeding season by its brick-red face and throat.

In other plumages, this is an undistinguished-looking species, heavily streaked brown above, with whitish mantle stripes, and with black markings on a white background below.