Golden Pipit

Tmetothylacus tenellus

Other Names

    Pipit doré   Goldpieper   Bisbita Dorada   Guldpiplärka     Pispola dorata

World: Africa, from the extreme South-East of Sudan, East to Somalia and south to Kenya and Tanzania.

Kenya: Mostly found in the eastern half of the country although occasionally wandering as far West as Baringo.

A very distinctive pipit of bushed grassland in dry country. The adult male, unlike most pipits, is very easy to identify. It's Yellow - yellow below and yellow in the wings. From the front the yellow throat and breast with the dark band does resemble the Yellow-throated Longclaw or Pangani Longclaw but neither have yellow wings (very obvious in flight) and both have a black line in the face. The female Golden pipit is a fairly typical brown pipit but has a yellow underside to the wing.