Mountain Pipit | |
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Top of Sani Pass, border of South Africa and Lesotho. | |
Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Motacillidae |
Genus: | Anthus |
Species: | A. hoeschi |
Binomial name | |
Anthus hoeschi Stresemann, 1938 |
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General summer range: the Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands |
The Mountain Pipit (Anthus hoeschi) is a species of bird in the Motacillidae family. It is found in Lesotho, South Africa, possibly Botswana, possibly Democratic Republic of the Congo, possibly Namibia, and possibly Zambia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.