The short-tailed pipit (''Anthus brachyurus'') is a species of
bird in the family
Motacillidae
The wagtails, longclaws, and pipits are a family, Motacillidae, of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. Around 70 species occur in five genera. The longclaws are entirely restricted to the Afrotropics, and the wagtails are predominan ...
.
It is found in
Angola,
Burundi
Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili language, Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French language, French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the ...
,
Republic of the Congo
The Republic of the Congo (french: République du Congo, ln, Republíki ya Kongó), also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located in the western coast of Central Africa to the w ...
,
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Gabon,
Mozambique,
Rwanda
Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator ...
,
Somalia,
South Africa,
Tanzania,
Uganda,
Zambia, and
Zimbabwe.
Its natural
habitats are subtropical or tropical dry lowland
grassland and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.
References
* Short-tailed pipit
Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds
short-tailed pipit
Birds of Central Africa
Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa
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Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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