Wagtails, Pipits

Wood Pipit

Anthus nyassae

The Wood Pipit (Anthus nyassae) is a 24 g grassland bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It stays put all year.

Family

Wagtails, Pipits

Order

Passeriformes

Weight

24 g

Habitat

Grassland

Diet

Invertivore

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

11

Recorded in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Malawi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, Tanzania, Botswana, Gabon, Mozambique, Republic of the Congo.

Where to see it: Mt. Moco Reserve IBA (Angola); Dzalanyama Forest Reserve (Malawi); Amano Christian School (Zambia); Frontier Mine (Democratic Republic of the Congo); Lesio-Louna Reserve · Iboubikro and track to Mah (Republic of the Congo).

Photo: (c) Brian Gratwicke, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist