Anthus cinnamomeus
Silhouette: Susan Murphy (original photograph), T. Michael Keesey (vectorization) · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~60% 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 Ngorongoro Conservation Area on a given day, based on 617 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 48th most-seen of the 519 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Grassveld Pipit in Ngorongoro Conservation Area on a given day, against about 10% in May, August and December, the lowest months. That is one of Ngorongoro Conservation Area's wettest months, with about 190 mm of rain against almost none in July.
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.
5th of 50
Of the 50 parks where we can rate Grassveld Pipit sightings, Ngorongoro Conservation Area ranks 5th at about 30%. The best odds are in Amboseli National Park (Kenya, about 40%), De Hoop Nature Reserve (South Africa, about 40%) and Nairobi National Park (Kenya, about 30%). All parks ranked.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Grassveld Pipit is recorded against all the birds logged in Ngorongoro Conservation Area (617 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
