Anthus cinnamomeus
Silhouette: Susan Murphy (original photograph), T. Michael Keesey (vectorization) · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~70% in a week ~90%
The African pipit (Anthus cinnamomeus) is a fairly small passerine bird belonging to the pipit genus Anthus in the family Motacillidae. It is also known as the grassveld pipit or grassland pipit. It was formerly lumped together with the Richard's, Australian, mountain and paddyfield pipits in a single species, Richard's pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae), but is now often treated as a species in its own right.
It has some defining characteristics, such as light brown feathers on the head and back, dark brown feathers on the lower back and tail, and a white chest. Some 15 subspecies are recognized: A. (c.) camaroonensis Shelley, 1900 – highlands of western Cameroon Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dar es-Salaam | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 2 | Maputo | 🇲🇿 Mozambique | |
| 3 | Mombasa | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 4 | Kigali | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 5 | Kampala | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 6 | Nairobi | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 7 | Durban | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 8 | Pretoria | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 9 | Harare | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | |
| 10 | Johannesburg | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Grassveld Pipit sighting in Dar es-Salaam on a given day, based on 56 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 20th most-seen of the 138 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August and October
In those months about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Grassveld Pipit in Dar es-Salaam on a given day, against about 20% in February and September, the lowest months. Those are among Dar es-Salaam's driest months, with about 40 mm of rain a month against 260 mm in April.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Grassveld Pipit sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Yes
Of the 11 cities where we can rate Grassveld Pipit sightings, Dar es-Salaam has the highest daily chance: about 30%. Next come Maputo (Mozambique, about 20%) and Mombasa (Kenya, about 10%).
Same family: Motacillidae
The closest relatives of the Grassveld Pipit that you can see in Dar es-Salaam (family Motacillidae, Wagtails and Pipits) are African Pied Wagtail (about 10%) and Yellow-throated Longclaw (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Grassveld Pipit is recorded against all the birds logged in Dar es-Salaam (56 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
