Pipits and Wagtails (Motacillidae)
Golden Pipit (Tmetothylacus tenellus) - HBW 9, p. 771
French: Pipit doré
German: Goldpieper
Spanish: Bisbita Dorado
Taxonomy: Macronix tenellus Cabanis, 1878, Taita, south-east Kenya.
Apparently closely related to Hemimacronyx and Macronyx. Monotypic.
Distribution: SE Sudan and NE Uganda, and from NW Somalia and E & SE Ethiopia S to E Kenya and NE & C Tanzania.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird on the ground, walking Locality Tsavo West National Park, Kenya (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 21 August 2000 6 years ago 13 sec 2.1
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male perched
Locality Tsavo East National Park, Kenya (Monotypic species)
Krzysztof Blachowiak 21 September 2011 37 weeks ago 4.3 -
A male in an acacia tree.
Locality Shaba National Reserve, Kenya (Monotypic species)
Jean Hupperetz 28 November 2008 4 years ago 4.2 -
Male adult in an acacia bush.
Locality Shaba National Reserve, Kenya (Monotypic species)
Bruno Schmetz 28 November 2008 4 years ago 3.8 -
perching on a green bush in open savannah
Locality Tsavo East National Park, Kenya (Monotypic species)
Marco Valentini 5 February 2012 1 year ago 3.6
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