African Pipit

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Motacillidae

Genus

Anthus

eBird Code

afrpip1

Vocalizations

Subspecies (15)

• Anthus cinnamomeus annae

  Eritrea to Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, eastern Kenya, and northeastern Tanzania

• Anthus cinnamomeus bocagii

  Angola to Botswana, Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique, and northern Cape Province

• Anthus cinnamomeus camaroonensis

  Cameroon (mounts Cameroon and Manenguba)

• Anthus cinnamomeus cinnamomeus

  highlands of western and southeastern Ethiopia

• Anthus cinnamomeus eximius

  Yemen

• Anthus cinnamomeus grotei

  salt pans of northern Namibia and northern Botswana

• Anthus cinnamomeus itombwensis

  eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (Itombwe highlands and Mount Kabobo)

• Anthus cinnamomeus lacuum

  Kenya to southeastern Uganda and central Tanzania

• Anthus cinnamomeus latistriatus

  eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo; winters to southwestern Uganda, northwestern Tanzania, and western Kenya

• Anthus cinnamomeus lichenya

  northeastern Angola to southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda, western Tanzania, and Mozambique

• Anthus cinnamomeus lynesi

  southeastern Nigeria to Cameroon and western Sudan (Darfur)

• Anthus cinnamomeus rufuloides

  South Africa (except northwestern), Eswatini, and Lesotho lowlands

• Anthus cinnamomeus spurium

  northeastern Namibia to northern Botswana, southern Malawi, and southern Mozambique

• Anthus cinnamomeus stabilis

  central and southeastern Sudan and eastern South Sudan

• Anthus cinnamomeus winterbottomi

  northeastern Zambia, southern Tanzania, northern Malawi, and northwestern Mozambique