Green Twinspot (Mandingoa nitidula)

Other Names (World)
Green Twinspot, Green-backed Twinspot, Schlegel's Twinspot (schlegeli)

Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)

Size
10 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hartlaub, 1865)

Range (Guide)

Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files

Green Twinspot (Mandingoa nitidula) [XC398118]
by Peter Boesman from Chowo forest, Nyika NP, Zambia (song)

Green Twinspot (Mandingoa nitidula) [XC739800]
by id from Kibale National Park, Western Region, Uganda (call)

Subspecies
Genus sometimes subsumed in Hypargos, but more closely related to Cryptospiza.

Proposed subspecies virginiae (described from R Opu, on Bioko I) treated as a synonym of schlegeli.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

schlegeli (Sharpe, 1870) - Western Guinea and Sierra Leone east, discontinuously, to DRCongo and western Uganda, south to north-western Angola. Also Bioko I (Fernando Póo).
chubbi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1912) - Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania (including Pemba I), Zanzibar, Zambia and northern Malawi.
nitidula (Hartlaub, 1865) - Southern Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, eastern South Africa (Limpopo Province, KwaZulu-Natal and eastern Eastern Cape) and western Swaziland.
virginiae (Amadon, 1953) - Bioko (Gulf of Guinea).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Green Twinspot (Mandingoa nitidula) - 10 files

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