Mountain pipit | |
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At Naude's Neck Pass, South Africa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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.