Short-tailed Pipit

When to see the Short-tailed Pipit

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Short-tailed Pipit

The map shades 6 countries with regular records, and 1 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 Congo - Kinshasa.

About the Short-tailed Pipit

The short-tailed pipit is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Mozambique, Rwanda, 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.

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Easily confused with

Pampas PipitAnthus chacoensisThe Pampas pipit is a very small member of its genus; it is about 14 cm (5.5 in) long. Sokoke PipitAnthus sokokensisThe Sokoke pipit is a species of bird in the family Motacillidae. Alpine PipitAnthus gutturalisThe alpine pipet is a medium-sized bird that lives in the alpine grasslands.