Pipits and Wagtails (Motacillidae)
Striped Pipit (Anthus lineiventris) - HBW 9, p. 755
French: Pipit de Sundevall
German: Streifenpieper
Spanish: Bisbita Rayado
Other common names: Large Striped Pipit
Taxonomy: Anthus lineiventris Sundevall, 1850, Mohapoani, Limpopo River, Botswana.
Was previously sometimes thought to form a superspecies with A. crenatus, but the two species differ widely in plumage characters and ecology. Described race sylvivagus included in nominate and angolensis (from Angola) in stygium; furthermore, stygium considered by some authors to be indistinguishable from nominate. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- stygium Clancey, 1952 - W Angola, and disjunctly from NW & W Tanzania, SE Kenya (Taita Hills, Chyulu Hills), SE DRCongo and W, E & S Zambia S to NE Botswana, Zimbabwe, N, W & S Mozambique and coastal E South Africa.
- lineiventris Sundevall, 1850 - SE Botswana E to NE South Africa and W Swaziland.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Adult singing
Locality Taita Hills, Kenya (ssp stygium)
Nik Borrow 18 November 2008 3 years ago 3.7 -
Feeding on ground
Locality Rusumo, East Province, Rwanda
Jason Anderson 18 October 2010 2 years ago 2.9
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