Nicholson's pipit

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| name = Nicholson's pipit

| image = Long-billed Pipit - Natal - South Africa S4E6593 (16378617574).jpg

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| genus = Anthus

| species = nicholsoni

| authority = Sharpe, 1884

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Nicholson's pipit (Anthus nicholsoni) is a small passerine bird belonging to the pipit genus Anthus in the family Motacillidae. It was formerly included with the long-billed pipit (Anthus similis) but is now frequently treated as a separate species. It is a bird found in southern Africa. They are non-migratory.{{cite web|editor1-last=Gill|editor1-first=Frank|editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist)|editor2-last=Donsker|editor2-first=David|year=2019|title=Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits|work=World Bird List Version 9.2 |url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/waxbills/|publisher=International Ornithologists' Union|accessdate=23 June 2019}}

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