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I got my first and only sighting of a Striped Pipit in the KNP at Olifants Camp on the steep slopes below the restaurant. I didn't get good pix of it, though. The photograph posted below comes from a bird seen regularly at a mountain reserve in Rustenburg.


Large view

Anthus lineiventris does most of its foraging between rocks, in sparse vegetation and on roadsides, feeding on insects such as grasshoppers. It often interrupts forraging to perch in trees.

It is a distinctive pipit with extensive streaking from the throat down onto the flanks, over the belly, ending at the vent. The feathers on the wings have distinctive lemon-yellow edges that gives the wing a greenish appearance.