Pipit - Irish Rare Birds Committee

Kirwin, G.M. & Grieve, A. 2010. Studies of Socotran birds V. On the validity of Anthus similissokotrae and a few remarks on Arabian and northeast African populations of Long-billed Pipit A.similis. Sandgrouse 32: 43-49.Kopij, G. et al 2002. Diet of pipits in South African grassland. Ostrich 73(1-2): 71-73.Kylänpää, J. 2000. Birds of Dera Ismail Khan District of North West Frontier Province in Pakistan.Forktail 16: 15-28 (26).Laird, W. & Gencz, A. 1993. Field identification of Long-billed Pipit in the West Palearctic. BritishBirds 86(1): 6-15.Macdonald, J.D. & Cave, F.O. 1948. Recent additions to the Sudan check-list of birds. Ibis 90(2):240-251.Martins, R.P. et al 1996. The status of passerines in southern Yemen and records of the OSMEsurvey in spring 1993. Sandgrouse 17: 54-72 (57).Praveen, J. & Nameer, P.O. 2007. A checklist of birds of Nelliampathy Hills, Southern WesternGhats. Zoos' Print Journal 22(6): 2695-2701 (2700).Sehhatisabet, M.E. et al 2006. Further significant extensions of migrant distribution and breeding andwintering ranges in Iran for over sixty species. Sandgrouse 28(2): 146-155.Serle, W. 1954. A second contribution to the ornithology of the British Cameroons. Ibis 96(1): 47-80.van IJzendoorn, E.J. 1985. Finding Long-billed Pipit in spring. Dutch Birding 7(3): 108.Walsh, T.A. & Wassink, A. 1980. Field identification of adult Long-billed Pipit. British Birds 73: 313-314.White, C.M.N. 1957. Taxonomic notes on African pipits with the description of a new race of Anthussimilis. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 77: 31-33.Wood PipitAnthus nyassae [Neumann 1906, between Sangesi and Songea, S Tanzania].[A.n. nyassae] Zambia, SW & SE Tanzania, Malawi & NW Mozambique.[A.n. schoutedeni] SE Gabon & S PR Congo E to S DR Congo and S to SC & SE Angola, NENamibia & N Botswana.[A.n. frondicolus] Zimbabwe & adjacent S Mozambique.The proposed form chersophilus is included with A.n. schoutedeni.Previously regarded as conspecific with A. similis.Other names: Woodland Pipit, Brachystegia Pipit, Chaplin’s Pipit.Sir Francis Drummond Percy Chaplin (1866-1933), cival servant administrator in Rhodesia andNyasaland between 1914 and 1923.Clancey, P.A. 1985. Species limits in the long-billed pipits of the southern Afrotropics. Ostrich 56(1-3): 157-169.Clancey, P.A. 1988. The Wood Pipit – a species new to the South West African avifauna.Cimbebasia 10: 47-50.Buffy PipitAnthus vaalensis [Shelley 1900, Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa].[A.v. vaalensis] S Botswana E to S Mozambique, NE South Africa & W Lesotho.[A.v. exasperatus] NE Botswana. Winters N to W Zimbabwe.[A.v. namibicus] NE & C Namibia.[A.v. neumanni] Angolan plateau and SC & S DR Congo. During the rains moves S to Namibia &Botswana.[A.v. chobiensis] SE DR Congo & W Tanzania S to SE Angola, extreme NE Namibia, N Botswana,Zimbabwe & adjacent Mozambique.[A.v. marungensis] N Zambia E to S Tanzania.Treated by del Hoyo et al 2004 to include the races saphiroi and goodsoni here included with PlainbackedPipit.The validity of chobiensis & marungensis is doubtful, with both possibly better included in neumanni.The proposed form clanceyi included with A.v. vaalensis.Other names: Sandy Pipit, Plain-backed Pipit.Borrett, R.P. & Wilson, K.J. 1969. Comparative feeding ecology of Anthus novaeseelandiae andAnthus vaalensis in Rhodesia. Ostrich 40(Supplement 1): 333-341.Winterbottom, J.M. 1963. The South African subspecies of the Buffy Pipit Anthus vaalensis Shelley.Annals of the South African Museum 46: 341-352.13