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 LC    Short-tailed Pipit* Id (Atlas):
    Anthus brachyurus

Description (10)
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Family
Motacillidae (Pipits And Wagtails)

Size
12 cm

First Described (Guide)
Sundevall, 1851

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical seasonally wet / flooded grassland. From sea-level - 1,800 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Gabon, Mozambique, Somalia (B), South Africa, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia.

Vagrant to Burundi, Rwanda, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (4)...)

 
Short-tailed Pipit (Anthus brachyurus) [XC745585]
     by Simon Cavaill\u00e8s from Chitunta plain, Mwinilunga, North-Western province, Zambia (call, song)

 
Short-tailed Pipit (Anthus brachyurus) [XC399106]
     by Hans Matheve from Klerkspruit River Floodplain in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, Free State, South Africa (alarm call)

Subspecies
May form a clade with Bush Pipit (Anthus caffer) and Sokoke Pipit (Anthus sokokensis). Racial differences rather unclear, and correct assignation of population from southern Tanzania disputed.

Proposed subspecies eludens (west-central DRCongo) not reliably separable from leggei.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • leggei Ogilvie-Grant, 1906   -  Disjunct populations in eastern DRCongo, south-western Uganda, Rwanda, northern Burundi and extreme north-western Tanzania; south-eastern Gabon and southern PRCongo through western and southern DRCongo to north-eastern Angola and northern and central Zambia; and (probably this race) southern Tanzania.
  • brachyurus Sundevall, 1851   -  South-central Mozambique (north of Beira); eastern South Africa (Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal) and eastern Lesotho.



References
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Files:
JPG files for Short-tailed Pipit (Anthus brachyurus) - 10 files


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