Colourful terrestrial passerines of the grassland, light savanna and wetland edges.Similar to pipits, but larger, brighter coloured with shorter tails and more scalloped upperparts. The long hindclaws (up to 2 cm) possibly assist in walking through grass.
Most longclaws are ground-feeding insectivores of slightly open country. They take a wide range of invertebrate prey, especially insects, but also including spiders, worms, and small aquatic molluscs and arthropods.
The are monogamous and the nest is a bulky cup of dry grass, lined with finer grass and rootlets. Thye lay clutches of 3 - 4 whitish eggs, covered with fairy heavy speckling and splotching. Incubation and care of young is done by both sexes.

Macronyx = big claw

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