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 NT    Mountain Pipit* Id (Atlas):
    Anthus hoeschi

Description (10)
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Family
Motacillidae (Pipits And Wagtails)

Size
18 cm

First Described (Guide)
Stresemann, 1938

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical high altitude grassland. From 2,000 - 2,700 m.

Range (Guide)
Lesotho (B), South Africa (B).

Unknown to Botswana (NB), Congo [The Democratic Republic of the] (NB), Namibia (NB), Zambia (NB).

Breeds in the Drakensberg of South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, northern Eastern Cape) and Lesotho; migrates to eastern Angola, southern DRCongo and north-western Zambia.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status NT
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Display flight song is a 3 to 5 note 'trrit-trrit-trrit', deeper and slower than that of African Pipit (Anthus cinnamomeus).

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (5)...)

 
Mountain Pipit (Anthus hoeschi) [XC682264]
     by Peter Boesman from Sani Pass road, Lesotho, Lesotho (call, song)

 
Mountain Pipit (Anthus hoeschi) [XC279815]
     by Christian Nunes from Sani Pass road, Lesotho, Lesotho (song?)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Recent studies suggest that it is most closely linked phylogenetically to Jackson's Pipit (Anthus latistriatus). Formerly treated as part of expanded "Anthus novaeseelandiae complex", and synonymized with subspecies bocagei of African Pipit (Anthus cinnamomeus) by some authors. Described subspecies editus (from Lesotho) and lwenarum (from north-western Zambia) considered indistinguishable from other populations.


References
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Files:
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