Pink-throated twinspot
Pink-throated twinspot | |
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Male in Mkhuze Game Reserve, South Africa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Estrildidae |
Genus: | Hypargos |
Species: | H. margaritatus |
Binomial name | |
Hypargos margaritatus (Strickland, 1844) |
The pink-throated twinspot (Hypargos margaritatus) is a small seed-eating bird in the family Estrildidae. It inhabits dry savanna and moist, subtropical/tropical (lowland) shrubland habitats near the southeast African coast in Mozambique, South Africa and Eswatini. It has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 160,000 km2.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Hypargos margaritatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22719416A131993715. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22719416A131993715.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ BirdLife International. "Species factsheet: Pink-throated Twinspot (Hypargos margaritatus)". datazone.birdlife.org. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
External links
[edit]- Media related to Hypargos margaritatus at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Hypargos margaritatus at Wikispecies
- Pink-throated twinspot - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.