Pink-throated twinspot

Pink-throated twinspot
Male in Mkhuze Game Reserve, South Africa
Scientific classification Edit this 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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ BirdLife International. "Species factsheet: Pink-throated Twinspot (Hypargos margaritatus)". datazone.birdlife.org. Retrieved 23 July 2017.


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