Pink-throated Twinspot

Hypargos margaritatus (Strickland, 1844) — also called PTTW, Verreaux's Twinspot. Occurrence records of the Pink-throated Twinspot are shared on GBIF from around 11 parks and reserves in the directory, most of all uMkhuze Game Reserve (1 252 records), in 3 provinces.

IUCN: Least concernEstrildidae

11reserves with records

2 732records around them

3provinces

LCIUCN category

Pink-throated Twinspot (Hypargos margaritatus) — Photo: Alan Manson · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Where it is recorded

Reserve	Province	Records
uMkhuze Game ReserveGame reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	1 252
St. Lucia SystemProtected area	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	822
Bonamanzi Game ReserveGame reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	259
St. Lucia Game ParkNature reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	181
Phinda Resource ReserveGame reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	58
False Bay ParkNature reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	41
Manyoni Private Game ReserveGame reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	39
Dumaneni ReserveNature reserve	MP Mpumalanga	28
Sodwana Bay National ParkNational park	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	22
Ndumo Game ReserveGame reserve	KZN KwaZulu-Natal	15
Thohoyandou National Botanical GardenBotanical garden	LP Limpopo	15

By province

KwaZulu-Natal: 9 reserves
Mpumalanga: 1 reserve
Limpopo: 1 reserve

Taxonomy

Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Estrildidae
Scientific name: Hypargos margaritatus
GBIF taxon: 2493647
Wikidata: Q367677

More of the Estrildidae family

Common Waxbill Blue Waxbill Bronze Mannikin Swee Waxbill African Firefinch Green-winged Pytilia Jameson's Firefinch Red-billed Firefinch Red-headed Finch Violet-eared Waxbill Black-and-white Mannikin Cut-throat Finch Black-faced Quail-Finch Black-faced Waxbill Green Twinspot Grey Waxbill Orange-breasted Waxbill

Source: GBIF.org occurrence records within the radius of each reserve's point; taxonomy and IUCN category from the GBIF backbone; photo from Wikimedia Commons, credit on the picture. Records near a reserve do not prove the species lives inside it.