Plain-backed Pipit

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Motacillidae

Genus

Anthus

eBird Code

plbpip1

Vocalizations

Subspecies (9)

• Anthus leucophrys ansorgei

  southern Mauritania to Senegambia and Guinea-Bissau

• Anthus leucophrys bohndorffi

  Angola to southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, southeastern Gabon, Zambia, northern Malawi, and Tanzania

• Anthus leucophrys goodsoni

  central and southwestern Kenya to far northern Tanzania

• Anthus leucophrys gouldii

  Sierra Leone to Liberia and Ivory Coast

• Anthus leucophrys leucophrys

  Mozambique to Eswatini, Lesotho, and South Africa

• Anthus leucophrys omoensis

  southeastern Sudan, eastern South Sudan, Eritrea, and northern and western Ethiopia

• Anthus leucophrys saphiroi

  southeastern Ethiopia and northwestern Somalia

• Anthus leucophrys tephridorsus

  southern Angola to southwestern Zambia, northeastern Namibia, and northwestern Botswana

• Anthus leucophrys zenkeri

  southern Mali and Guinea to southwestern Sudan and South Sudan southward to northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, and northwestern Tanzania