Short-tailed Pipit (Anthus brachyurus) [XC699779]
by Dries Van de Loock from Chitunta Plains, Northwestern Province, Zambia (flight call)
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.