Pink-throated Twinspot

Pink-throated Twinspot

Taxobox
name = Pink-throated Twinspot
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Estrildidae
genus = "Hypargos"
genus_authority = Reichenbach, 1862
species = "H. margaritatus"
binomial = "Hypargos margaritatus"
binomial_authority = Strickland, 1844

The Pink-throated Twinspot ("Hyapargos margaritatus") is an estrildid finch.

Range and habitat

The Pink-throated Twinspot inhabits dry savanna and moist, subtropical/tropical (lowland) shrubland habitats near the southeast African coast in Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland. It has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 160,000 km².

References

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=8625&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
* http://www.phthiraptera.org/Birds/Passeriformes/Estrildidae.html


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