Wood Pipit
Photo: Maans Booysen, Birding Weto · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wagtails and Pipits

Wood Pipit

Anthus nyassae

LCLeast Concern
Family
Wagtails and Pipits (Motacillidae)
Order
Passeriformes

Overview

The wood pipit or woodland pipit (Anthus nyassae) is a small passerine bird belonging to the pipit genus Anthus in the family Motacillidae. It was formerly included in the long-billed pipit (Anthus similis) but is now frequently treated as a separate species. It is a bird of miombo woodland in south-central Africa, unlike the long-billed pipit which inhabits open grassland. It perches in trees when flushed but forages on the ground for invertebrates.

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Sources and further reading

Last updated September 29, 2026.