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Photo by Leon
Nylsvley, north of Pretoria, South Africa, July 2004
Anthus vaalensis

Identification

Distribution

Africa
Western Africa: DRC and Angola
Eastern Africa: Tanzania, Zambia, and Mozambique
Southern Africa: Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho and Swaziland

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 6 subspecies[1]:

  • A. v. neumanni:
  • A. v. chobiensis:
  • A. v. marungensis:
  • A. v. namibicus:
  • A. v. exasperatus:
  • A. v. vaalensis:

Habitat

Dry lowland grassland.

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Avibase
  3. Wikipedia

Recommended Citation

External Links

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