Striped Pipit (Anthus lineiventris)

Other Names (World)
Striped Pipit, Large Striped Pipit

Family
Motacillidae (Pipits And Wagtails)

Size
18 cm

First Described (Guide)
Sundevall, 1851

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

Range (Guide)

Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (32)...)

Striped Pipit (Anthus lineiventris) [XC755410]
by Peter Boesman from Wumingu (near Wundanyi), Wundanyi, Taita-Taveta County, Kenya (song)

Striped Pipit (Anthus lineiventris) [XC346109]
by Frank Lambert from Mbatamila, Mecula, Niassa, Mozambique (song)

Subspecies
Was previously sometimes thought to form a superspecies with Yellow-tufted Pipit (Anthus crenatus), but the two species differ widely in plumage characters and ecology. Described subspecies sylvivagus included in nominate and angolensis (from Angola) in stygium. Furthermore, stygium considered by some authors to be indistinguishable from nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

stygium Sundevall, 1851 - Western Angola, and disjunctly from north-western and western Tanzania, south-eastern Kenya (Taita Hills, Chyulu Hills), south-eastern DRCongo and west, eastern and southern Zambia south to north-eastern Botswana, Zimbabwe, north, western and southern Mozambique and coastal eastern South Africa.
lineiventris Sundevall, 1851 - South-eastern Botswana east to north-eastern South Africa and western Swaziland.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Striped Pipit (Anthus lineiventris) - 10 files

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