Pink-throated twinspot

Pink-throated twinspot
Male in Mkhuze Game Reserve, South Africa
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
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.

External links

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   Media related to Hypargos margaritatus at Wikimedia Commons
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   Data related to Hypargos margaritatus at Wikispecies
• Pink-throated twinspot - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.