Golden Pipit (Tmetothylacus tenellus)

Family
Motacillidae (Pipits And Wagtails)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Cabanis, 1878)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 1,000 m, occasionally to 1,800 m.

Range (Guide)

Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

Vagrant to Oman, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

South-eastern Sudan and north-eastern Uganda, and from north-western Somalia and eastern and south-eastern Ethiopia south to eastern Kenya and north-eastern and central Tanzania.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files

Golden Pipit (Tmetothylacus tenellus) [XC455420]
by id from Samburu National Reserve, Samburu County, Kenya (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Apparently closely related to Hemimacronyx and Macronyx.

References
See References.

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