#Twinspot

[herpsandbirds]

Pink-throated Twinspot (Hypargos margaritatus), male, family Estrildidae, South Africa

photograph by Rich Lindie

#twinspot #finch #estrildidae #hypargos #bird #ornithology #animals #nature #africa

[leochbatteryglobal]

Leoch lead-acid batteries are commonly used in self-contained emergency lighting, such as a twinspot.

Also they are still widely used in central battery systems.

Emergency backup power is a matter of human life and safety.🚨

#EmergencyLight #Twinspot #LeadAcidBattery #CentralBatterySystems #LeochBattery #emergencylightbattery #emergencylighting #batterytechnology #poweroutage #emergencypreparedness #safetyequipment #backuppower #rechargeablebatteries #emergencyresponse #disasterpreparedness

[alonglistofbirds]

[1758/10977] Brown twinspot - Clytospiza monteiri

Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri Superfamily: Passeroidea Family: Estrildidae (estrildid finches)

Photo credit: Nik Borrow via Macaulay Library

#birds #Brown twinspot #Passeriformes #Passeri #Passeroidea #Estrildidae #Clytospiza #birds a to z #undescribed

[proton-wobbler]

Loser's Bracket, Poll 2

Image Sources: Myna (Lars Petersson); Twinspot (Dubi Shapiro); Vireo (All About Birds); Hornbill (Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok)

#hipster bird losers bracket #javan myna #pink throated twinspot #gray vireo #helmeted hornbill #polls #i literally typed 'gravy' for gray vireo HELP #i miss them even tho they were annoying af. i love them

[theanoninyourinbox]

some dragons for Smaugust!

#my art #hello from the void #dragon #dragons #dragon design #dragons designs #bird based dragons #cream colored courser #pink throated twinspot #rainbow bee eater #hornbill #smaugust

[pillarboxstudio]

#philately #postage stamp #ephemera #vintage stamps #vintage #snail mail #animals #malawi #malawi stamps #green-backed twinspot #birds

[is-the-snake-video-cute]

Couple of hoggie questions! I feel like I recall you answering some similar things before but I can’t find anything so sorry if you have.

A lot of the sources I’ve seen say that a 20 gal long (for males) and a 40 gal (for females) is good for adult hogs. Is this actually good, or more of a bare minimum type thing? Based on the typical sizes it seems like most hognoses would be able to fully stretch out unless they were particularly large.

Is it fine for baby hognoses to be kept on paper towels? I know they’re a burrowing species so should they get substrate when they get moved to a bigger enclosure, or earlier?

What’s your favorite hognose morph? I love lavenders and snows! :)

I’ve heard that lavenders can sometimes have fertility issues if you breed visual to visual. Have you heard of this?

I love your hoggie Sirius! Is he a normal morph? It might just be the lighting but he looks a little darker than normal in the pictures I’ve seen.

Thank you so much for running this blog! Not only is it incredibly informative, but also super fascinating, and I can’t imagine how much good you must be doing for the reptile community by educating and combating misinformation.

I hope your grandma’s recovering well!

I love getting hognose questions!!

I prefer a 40 gallon at least for all hognoses, but males can get by in a 20 gallon. Hoggies are small enough that a 40 gallon is honestly perfect for every one I've ever met - you can go bigger, but a 40 gallon hits that nice sweet spot of big enough for the snake but not so big they have trouble thermoregulating (they're small enough I'd hesitate to drop a male into a 120 gallon). I've never met even big female hoggies who have outgrown their 40 gallons!

I don't recommend paper towel for any hognoses for two big reasons. The first is that hoggies really really need to burrow, and paper towel just doesn't cut it to satisfy those instincts, so hoggies kept on paper towel often feel unsafe and uncomfortable. The second is that hognoses are not intelligent snakes, and they will more than likely shove their food all over the place while they try to eat, and I've seen more than one hognose kept on paper towel swallow large pieces of paper towel that got stuck to their food because of this. It's okay for snakes to swallow small pieces of substrate while eating, but paper towel is a different matter and can cause a lot of issues.

My favorite hognose morph is honestly just the normal! I love the pattern and the cute checkered bellies. I also like sables, though - they remind me of eastern hognoses!

Lavender is one of those morphs where lots of people suspect there are issues but there's no real proof. I've heard the visual x visual resulting in inferility thing before, and there's rumors that high-content lavenders who've been bred visual x visual for generations might have issues like spinal kinking and facial deformities. It's genuinely very hard to say if these things are morph-related or if they're because of heavy inbreeding in lavender lines - lavender is so popular that a lot of them on the market are heavily inbred.

I love Sirius too, he's my specialest little boy! His pairing was normal x twinspot - in coloration he's a normal but he is a very very low expression twinspot. He's got a couple double spots down his back but the best ones are right behind his head. You're right he's a little on the darker side but he's normal!

#not a rating #hognose snakes #snake morphs

[maxs-creature-corner]

Western Hognose Snake Morphs pt.7

Note: I am not a snake breeder/owner, this is simply information and photos i have found online and believe to be factual after researching. If i get anything wrong, please tell me and i will correct or remove it :)

SHADOW

SWISS CHOCOLATE

SUPERARCTIC SWISS CHOCOLATE

SUPERARCTIC SWISS CHOCOLATE ANACONDA

SWISS CHOCOLATE AXANTHIC

SWISS CHOCOLATE AXANTHIC ANACONDA

ARCTIC ALBINO SWISS CHOCOLATE

SUPERARCTIC ALBINO SWISS CHOCOLATE

SWISS CHOCOLATE LAVENDER

TOFFEE CHOCOLATE/ TOFFEEBELLY SWISS CHOCOLATE

TOFFEE NUT CHOCOLATE/ TOFFEEBELLY SWISS CHOCOLATE ANACONDA

TOFFEEBELLY SWISS CHOCOLATE SUPERCONDA

TOFFEEGLOW CHOCOLATE

TOFFEEGLOW CHOCOLATE ANACONDA

TIGER/BANDED

TOFFEE/TOFFEEBELLY

TWINSPOT

#animals #exotic animals #snake #snakes #snakeblr #snakblr #western hognose #hognose snake #snake morphs #hognose morphs #morphs

[witchstone]

okay, birds seen at home in june round up! comes to a total of 62 species, which is oddly high for the middle of winter. the highlight was the green twinspot, which i’d only got my first ever sighting of two weeks earlier. presumably it had only found its way to our garden because of the heavy rains and flash floods (and the tornado what the fuck) a few days prior - they’re forest birds, whereas our area is more broad-leaf woodland.

full list and photos under the cut!

bar-throated apalis, black-collared + crested + white-eared barbet, cape batis, dark-capped bulbul, green-backed camaroptera*, yellow-fronted canary, fork-tailed drongo, crowned eagle*, southern black flycatcher, african dusky flycatcher, african paradise flycatcher (odd for this time of year), egyptian goose, gymnogene, southern hadeda, purple-crested loerie. speckled mousebird, black-headed oriole, rose-ringed parakeet*, black-backed puffback, red-capped robin-chat, cape glossy + black-bellied + red-winged starling, collared + greater double-collared + olive + amethyst + white-bellied sunbird, olive + kurrichane thrush, golden-rumped tinkerbarbet, southern black tit, spectacled + village weaver, cape white-eye, cardinal + golden-tailed woodpecker, red-eyed + tambourine* dove, brown-hooded kingfisher, red-backed + bronze mannikin, klaas’s cuckoo*, lesser honeyguide, grey-headed bushshrike*, familiar chat, southern grey-headed sparrow, woolly-necked stork, sombre greenbul*, green woodhoopoe, cape wagtail, southern boubou, black sparrowhawk, african palm swift, green twinspot, black cuckooshrike?, black-headed heron, little sparrowhawk?, pied crow, african goshawk

* = call heard, no visuals, ? = i’m reasonably sure it was that, but not 100%

dark-capped bulbul, taken at a nature reserve up the hill

eurytela dryope

not sure yet. maybe a mocker swallowtail judging by the body?

olive sunbird my beloved

the green twinspot!! absolutely not a great photo, but i was surprised to get a pic at all tbh. either a female or juvenile

bosduival’s tree nymph

souther hadeda. chicken sized rats and the worst dawn chorus you’ve ever heard

golden-tailed woodpecker

gold-spotted sylph. have never seen one before in my life, but it was hanging around the laundry

southern black tit!

#fieldnotes #birds #on birds #does tumblr have a birdwatching community tag #birding #birdwatching #bird watching

[christiansperka]

One of the most coveted bird sightings in our area is that of *Pink-throated Twinspots*. This morning Bheki, my very experienced Thanda Safari tracker, spotted four of these beautiful birds and I was lucky to get this shot of a male. I do not often post bird pictures on my photography channel (as I have dedicated birding Instagram and Facebook accounts for bird photography @ChristianSperkaBirding), but I thought this was too beautiful to let it pass! (at Thanda Safari) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChPFmaYqEWX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rockjumperbirdingtours]

Photo of the Day – The Pink-throated Twinspot (Hypargos margaritatus) is one of Southern Africa’s most desirable endemic species, and it’s easy to see why. This is a gorgeous species! Unfortunately for eager birders, this species is not an easy one to find… On top of its restricted range, it is also quite secretive. But the challenge makes actually seeing the bird all the more special.

This photo was taken by Rich Lindie in South Africa

#RockjumperBirding #birds #birding #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #birdphotography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #twinspot

[herpsandbirds]

Green Twinspot (Mandingoa nitidula), male, family Estrildidae, order Passeriformes, South Africa

photograph by The Flacks Photography

#mandingoa #twinspot #finch #estrildidae #passeriformes #animals #nature #africa #bird #ornithology

[birdstudies]

June 19, 2018 - Green Twinspot or Green-backed Twinspot (Mandingoa nitidula)

These estrildid finches are found in a spotty range through central and eastern Africa. Foraging mostly on the ground, or plucking their food directly from plants, they eat grass seeds and some small insects. Pairs build oval nests from grasses, dry leaves, rootlets, twigs, lichen, feathers, and other materials, usually in tall trees. Both parents incubate the eggs and care for the chicks.

#green twinspot #twinspot #estrildid finch #mandingoa nitidula #bird #birds #illustration #art #grassland #birblr art

[transbirds]

Pink-throated Twinspot (Hypargos margaritatus)

© Tesfay M

#pink-throated twinspot #hypargos margaritatus #estrildidae #passeriformes #birds #tesfay m

[proton-wobbler]

Round 1, Poll 36

Pink-throated Twinspot vs Whiskered Auklet

sources under cut

Pink-throated Twinspot Propaganda

eBird Sightings - 1,165

IUCN Status - Least Concern

Location: Africa - South Mozambique, Northeast South Africa, and East Eswatini

"Just look at those colors! Those spots! If that's not a hipster bird, then I don't know what is!"

Whiskered Auklet Propaganda

eBird Sightings - 528

IUCN Status - Least Concern

Location: North Pacific Ocean - Aleutian, Commaner, and Kuril island chains

"beautiful, mysterious, tangerine-scented little guys that get ignored a lot, but i think some people would really love if they Knew!"

Image Sources: Twinspot (Dubi Shapiro); Auklet (Tony Palliser)

#hipster bird main bracket #bracket: true a #poll #polls #round 1 #pink throated twinspot #whiskered auklet

[aaaaagaronia]

beloved big lady 

#artistic carno #ocs #jodi #dinosaurs #spinosaurus #i gotta find my acetone jar so i can repaint her djsknhfjcds #uhhh color inspo is from twinspot lionfish!!