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 NT    Yellow-tufted Pipit* Id (Atlas):
    Anthus crenatus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Yellow-tufted Pipit, Rock Pipit(!), African Rock Pipit, Large Yellow-tufted Pipit

Family
Motacillidae (Pipits And Wagtails)

Size
17 cm

First Described (Guide)
Finsch & Hartlaub, 1870

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, subarctic grassland. From sea-level - 1,000 - 3,000 m.

Range (Guide)
Lesotho, South Africa.

South Africa from southern and eastern Northern Cape eastern in mountains to Mpumalanga, western Swaziland and Lesotho (Drakensberg); also, isolated population in north-central Northern Cape (lower R Orange).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status NT
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
A far-carrying 'tseeet-tserrroooo', the second note descending. Calls with a typical erect stance, bill pointed upwards, from a low perch.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (136)...)

 
African Rock Pipit (Anthus crenatus) [XC875659]
     by id from Kleinkommetjiesfontein, Springfontein, South Africa (song)

 
African Rock Pipit (Anthus crenatus) [XC501485]
     by Dawie de Swardt from Semongkong Waterfall area, Lesotho (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Was previously sometimes thought to form a superspecies with Striped Pipit (Anthus lineiventris), but the two species differ widely in plumage characters and ecology.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Yellow-tufted Pipit (Anthus crenatus) - 10 files


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