Mountain pipit
| Mountain pipit | |
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| At Naude's Neck Pass, South Africa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Motacillidae |
| Genus: | Anthus |
| Species: | A. hoeschi
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| Binomial name | |
| Anthus hoeschi Stresemann, 1938
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| Approximate summer range: the Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands | |
The mountain pipit (Anthus hoeschi) is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae.
Its breeding range is in Lesotho and adjacent South Africa. Its non-breeding range possibly includes Botswana, the DRC, Namibia and Zambia. Its natural overwintering habitat is subtropical or tropical grassland, and it breeds in temperate high altitude grassland in summer.
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2017). "Anthus hoeschi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T22718467A118896194. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22718467A118896194.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
External links
- Mountain pipit - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.