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I’m off to one of my favourite birding destinations tomorrow - South Africa. I’m only there for a couple of days before coming home, but I’m planning to rent a car as usual and go and have a look at some truly superb sites like Suikerbosrand, Marievale, the Zaagkuildift Road etc etc. I’ll also take [...]

Grassland/African Pipit Anthus cinnamomeus Nairobi, Kenya, June 2006
 
Described as “the ’standard pipit’ throughout much of the region, against which others must be compared” by Ian Sinclair and Peter Ryan (Birds of Africa south of the Sahara Struik 2003), the Grassland, Grassveld, or African Pipit seems to be one of the most variable ’species’ anywhere in [...]