Wood Pipit (Anthus nyassae)
About the Wood Pipit
The wood pipit or woodland pipit (Anthus nyassae) is a small passerine bird belonging to the pipit genus Anthus in the family Motacillidae. It was formerly included in the long-billed pipit (Anthus similis) but is now frequently treated as a separate species. It is a bird of miombo woodland in south-central Africa, unlike the long-billed pipit which inhabits open grassland. It perches in trees when flushed but forages on the ground for invertebrates. It is 16-18 centimetres long. The upperparts are warm brown with dark streaks while the underparts are pale with some streaking on the breast. The bird has a dark eyestripe, white supercilium and pale outer tail-feathers. Juveniles have dark spots above and have more streaking below than the adults. The bird's song is high-pitched and monotonous.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 11 recordings for this species: 7 CC BY-NC-ND · 3 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Zambia, Zimbabwe in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Blyth's PipitAnthus godlewskiirecording
- Buff-bellied PipitAnthus rubescensrecording
- European Rock PipitAnthus petrosusrecording
- Long-billed PipitAnthus similisrecording
- Meadow PipitAnthus pratensisrecording
- Ochre-breasted PipitAnthus nattererirecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.