VLEK R & JANSEN JFJ (2013) Additional evidence of Tawny Pipit Anthus campestris breeding in the Dutch coastal dunes. LIMOSA 86 (4): 236-239.

The question whether or not Tawny Pipit has bred in the Dutch coastal dunes in historical times has been a controversial issue in recent discussions on Dutch internet bird fora. In 2005 Vlek published an overview of the historical documentation in Dutch ornithological literature and in museum collections. Documentation was presented for a 100 year period, from 1828 (two lectotypes in the C.L. Brehm collection at the American Natural History Museum, New York, usa) up to 1927 when Jac. P. Thijsse found the species still present in the sand-dunes of Western Texel (Vlek 2005). New evidence was found in the form of three separate clutches, collected in the dunes of North- and South-Holland, present in egg-collections of some small-scale private collectors, from the period 1900-1941. It is concluded that Tawny Pipit disappeared as a coastal breeding bird during the Second World War, some 15 years later than was assumed by Vlek (2005).

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