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Barnes, K. N. 2000. The Eskom Red Data Book of birds of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. BirdLife South Africa, Johannesburg.
Bird, J.P., Martin, R., Akçakaya, H.R., Gilroy, J., Burfield, I.J., Garnett, S.G., Symes, A., Taylor, J., Şekercioğlu, Ç.H. and Butchart, S.H.M. 2020. Generation lengths of the world’s birds and their implications for extinction risk. Conservation Biology 34(5): 1252-1261. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13486.
Clancey, P.A. 1985. The rare Birds of Southern Africa. Winchester Press, Johannesburg.
Clancey, P.A. 1990. A review of the indigenous pipits (Genus Anthus Bechstein: Motacillidae) of the Afrotropics. Durban Museum Novitates 15: 42-72.
Clancey, P.A. 1997. Yellow-breasted Pipit Hemimacronyx chloris. In: Harrison, J.A.; Allan, D.G; Underhill, L.G.; Herremans, M.; Tree, A.J.; Parker, V.; Brown, C.J. (ed.), The Atlas of Southern African Birds Vol. 2: Passerines, BirdLife South Africa, Johannesburg.
IUCN. 2021. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2021-3. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 09 December 2021).
Jansen, R, Little, RM & Crowe, TM. 1999. Implications of grazing and burning of grasslands on the sustainable use of francolins (Francolinus spp.) and on overall bird conservation in the highlands of Mpumalanga province, South Africa. . Biodiversity and Conservation 8: 587-602.
Little, I.T. 2015. Yellow-breasted pipit Anthus Chloris. In: Taylor, M.R.; Peacock, F.; Wanlass, R.M. (ed.), The 2015 Eskom Red Data Book of Birds of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland , pp. 261-263. BirdLife South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Little, I.T.; Hockey, P.A.R.; Jansen, R. 2013. A burning issue: Fire overrides grazing as a disturbance driver for South African grassland bird and arthropod assemblage structure and diversity. Biological Conservation 158: 258-270.
Maphisa, D.H., Smit-Robinson, H., and Altwegg, R. 2019. Dynamic multi-species occupancy models reveal individualistic habitat preferences in a high-altitude grassland bird community. PeerJ 7:e6276.
Peacock, F. 2006. Pipits of southern Africa. Faansie Peacock, Pretoria.
Pietersen, D.W.; Little, I.T.; Jansen, R.; McKechnie, A.E. 2018. Predicting the distribution of the vulnerable Yellow-breasted Pipit (Anthus chloris) using species distribution modelling. Emu 118(2): 166-172.
Simmons, R.E.; Barnard, P.; Dean, W. R.J.; Midgley, G. F.; Thuiller, W.; Hughes, G. 2004. Climate change and birds: perspectives and prospects from southern Africa. Ostrich 75: 295-308.
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BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Yellow-breasted Pipit Hemimacronyx chloris. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/yellow-breasted-pipit-hemimacronyx-chloris on 26/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 26/12/2024.