Plain-backed Pipit

When to see the Plain-backed Pipit

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Plain-backed Pipit

The map shades 30 countries with regular records, and 3 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Mali, Congo - Brazzaville, South Sudan.

About the Plain-backed Pipit

The plain-backed pipit or plain pipit is a medium-sized passerine bird which is a resident breeder in Africa south of the Sahara Desert.

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Easily confused with

Sprague's PipitAnthus spragueiiMeasurements: Length: 5.9–6.7 in (15–17 cm) Weight: 0.6-0.9 oz (18.2-27 g) Wingspan: 10 in (25.4 cm) Yellowish PipitAnthus chiiThe yellowish pipit is one of the smallest members of genus Anthus, and is unusually long-legged and short-tailed. Berthelot's PipitAnthus berthelotiiBerthelot's pipit is a small passerine bird which breeds in Madeira and the Canary Islands.