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 LC    Plain-backed Pipit* Id (Atlas):
    Anthus leucophrys

Description (10)
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Family
Motacillidae (Pipits And Wagtails)

Size
17 cm

First Described (Guide)
Vieillot, 1818

Habitat
Dry savanna. From sea-level - 2,200 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Eritrea, Gabon, Lesotho.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (33)...)

 
Plain-backed Pipit (Anthus leucophrys) [XC508700]
     by Peter Boesman from Nyachisala Forest, Kakoma, Mwinilunga, Northwestern Province, Zambia (call)

 
Plain-backed Pipit (Anthus leucophrys) [XC299954]
     by Lynette Rudman from Liben plain, Ethiopia (call)

Subspecies
Subspecies goodsoni and saphiroi of Buffy Pipit (Anthus vaalensis) included in present species by some authors. Variation partly clinal, with subspecies intergrading from west to east. Subspecies ansorgei also intergrades with zenkeri in Guinea-Bissau. Other described subspecies are prunus (Angola), merged with bohndorffi, turneri (north-western Kenya), synonymized with zenkeri, and enunciator (Swaziland), merged with nominate.

The following 9 subspecies are recognised:

  • ansorgei White, CMN, 1948   -  Southern Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia and Guinea-Bissau.
  • zenkeri Neumann, 1906   -  Guinea and southern Mali east to Ghana, thence east to southern Chad, Central African Republic and southern Sudan, and south to Cameroon, northern and eastern DRCongo, Burundi, north-western Tanzania and western Kenya.
  • gouldii Fraser, 1843   -  Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast.
  • omoensis Neumann, 1906   -  South-eastern Sudan and north, central and western Ethiopia.
  • bohndorffi Neumann, 1906   -  South-eastern Gabon, central PRCongo, and southern DRCongo east to western Tanzania and south to central Angola, north-western Zambia and northern Malawi (R Songwe).
  • tephridorsus Clancey, 1967   -  Southern Angola and southern Zambia south to northern Namibia, north-western Botswana and north-eastern Zimbabwe.
  • leucophrys Vieillot, 1818   -  South-eastern Botswana east to extreme southern Mozambique, south to eastern and southern South Africa.
  • saphiroi Neumann, 1906   -  South-eastern Ethiopia and north-western Somalia. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Buffy Pipit (Anthus vaalensis).
  • goodsoni Meinertzhagen, R, 1920   -  Central and south-western Kenya and extreme northern Tanzania. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Buffy Pipit (Anthus vaalensis).



References
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Files:
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