Also known as the Green-backed Twinspot.
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Photo Properties
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Aperture Value
f/6.4
Color Space
sRGB
Exposure Bias Value
-0.33 EV
Exposure Program
Aperture Priority
Flash
Compulsory Flash
Focal Length
420 mm
ISO
500
Metering Mode
Multi-Segment
Shutter Speed Value
1/60 sec
Date/Time
Fri 31 May 2013 01:22:08 PM EDT
English Green Twinspot
Scientific (Mandingoa nitidula)
Order PASSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Estrildidae
Family (English) Waxbills, Munias & Allies
Other name(s) Bengali vert tacheté, Green-backed Twinspot
Breeding Regions AF
Breeding Range Subregions w, c, e, se
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Angola,Benin,Burundi,Cameroon,Central African Republic,Congo,Democratic Republic of Congo,Equatorial Guinea,Ethiopia,Gabon, Ghana,Guinea,Ivory Coast,Kenya,Liberia,Malawi,Mozambique,Nigeria,Rwanda,Sierra Leone, South Africa,South Sudan,Sudan,Swaziland,Tanzania,Togo,Uganda,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
schlegeli Sierra Leone and Guinea to w Uganda, DR Congo and nw Angola
virginiae Bioko I.
chubbi Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, ne Zambia and n Malawi
nitidula s Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and e South Africa
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Hartlaub, 1865)
German Tropfengrünastrild
French Astrild vert
Chinese 绿背斑雀
Japanese オトヒメチョウ
Russian Зелёный астрильд
Spanish Estrilda verde
Portuguese pintadinho-verde
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Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)