Black-throated Wattle-eye

Platysteira peltata

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestCup nestTiny · 14 g

When to see the Black-throated Wattle-eye

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Black-throated Wattle-eye

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 12 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Burundi, Nigeria.

About the Black-throated Wattle-eye

The black-throated wattle-eye is a species of bird in the family Platysteiridae. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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