Pink-throated Twinspot (Hypargos margaritatus) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernSeeds

ShrublandDomed nestTiny · 13 g

Pink-throated Twinspot (Hypargos margaritatus), photo 5 — Photo: (c) nmoorhatch, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Pink-throated Twinspot (Hypargos margaritatus), photo 6 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Pink-throated Twinspot (Hypargos margaritatus), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Robert Taylor, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Pink-throated Twinspot (Hypargos margaritatus), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Justin Ponder, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Pink-throated Twinspot (Hypargos margaritatus), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Justin Ponder, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Pink-throated Twinspot (Hypargos margaritatus), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Peter Archdale, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

When to see the Pink-throated Twinspot

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 Pink-throated Twinspot

Regular range

The map shades 3 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

South Africa Eswatini Mozambique

About the Pink-throated Twinspot

The pink-throated twinspot 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.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Red-throated TwinspotHypargos niveoguttatusThe red-throated twinspot or Peters's twinspot is a common species of bird found in sub-saharan Africa.

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