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Black-throated wattle-eye

<p>The <b>black-throated wattle-eye</b> (<i><b>Platysteira peltata</b></i>) is a species of <a href="/en/Bird" title="Bird" class="wl">bird</a> in the family <a href="/en/Platysteiridae" title="Platysteiridae" class="mw-redirect wl">Platysteiridae</a>.
It is found in <a href="/en/Angola" title="Angola" class="wl">Angola</a>, <a href="/en/Burundi" title="Burundi" class="wl">Burundi</a>, <a href="/en/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo" class="wl">Democratic Republic of the Congo</a>, <a href="/en/Eswatini" title="Eswatini" class="wl">Eswatini</a>, <a href="/en/Kenya" title="Kenya" class="wl">Kenya</a>, <a href="/en/Malawi" title="Malawi" class="wl">Malawi</a>, <a href="/en/Mozambique" title="Mozambique" class="wl">Mozambique</a>, <a href="/en/Somalia" title="Somalia" class="wl">Somalia</a>, South Africa, <a href="/en/Tanzania" title="Tanzania" class="wl">Tanzania</a>, <a href="/en/Uganda" title="Uganda" class="wl">Uganda</a>, <a href="/en/Zambia" title="Zambia" class="wl">Zambia</a>, and <a href="/en/Zimbabwe" title="Zimbabwe" class="wl">Zimbabwe</a>.</p>

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<td colspan="2" style="text-align: center"><span class="mw-default-size"><a href="/en/File:Female_Black-throated_Wattle-eye_(Platysteira_peltata)_front_view.jpg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:Female_Black-throated_Wattle-eye_(Platysteira_peltata)_front_view.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Female_Black-throated_Wattle-eye_%28Platysteira_peltata%29_front_view.jpg/220px-Female_Black-throated_Wattle-eye_%28Platysteira_peltata%29_front_view.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="767" data-file-height="768" data-file-type="bitmap" height="220" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Female_Black-throated_Wattle-eye_%28Platysteira_peltata%29_front_view.jpg/330px-Female_Black-throated_Wattle-eye_%28Platysteira_peltata%29_front_view.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Female_Black-throated_Wattle-eye_%28Platysteira_peltata%29_front_view.jpg/440px-Female_Black-throated_Wattle-eye_%28Platysteira_peltata%29_front_view.jpg 2x" alt="Female_Black-throated_Wattle-eye_%28Platysteira_peltata%29_front_view.jpg"></a></span></td></tr>
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<td colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size: 88%">Female, <a href="/en/Umhlanga,_KwaZulu-Natal" title="Umhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal" class="mw-redirect wl">Umhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal</a>, South Africa</td></tr>
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<td colspan="2" style="text-align: center"><span class="mw-default-size"><a href="/en/File:Black-throated_Wattle-eye_(Platysteira_peltata)_from_side.jpg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:Black-throated_Wattle-eye_(Platysteira_peltata)_from_side.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Black-throated_Wattle-eye_%28Platysteira_peltata%29_from_side.jpg/220px-Black-throated_Wattle-eye_%28Platysteira_peltata%29_from_side.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="755" data-file-height="614" data-file-type="bitmap" height="179" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Black-throated_Wattle-eye_%28Platysteira_peltata%29_from_side.jpg/330px-Black-throated_Wattle-eye_%28Platysteira_peltata%29_from_side.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Black-throated_Wattle-eye_%28Platysteira_peltata%29_from_side.jpg/440px-Black-throated_Wattle-eye_%28Platysteira_peltata%29_from_side.jpg 2x" alt="Black-throated_Wattle-eye_%28Platysteira_peltata%29_from_side.jpg"></a></span></td></tr>
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<td colspan="2"><div style="text-align: center"><span class="mw-default-size"><span><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Status_iucn3.1_LC.svg/220px-Status_iucn3.1_LC.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="137" data-file-type="drawing" height="59" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Status_iucn3.1_LC.svg/330px-Status_iucn3.1_LC.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Status_iucn3.1_LC.svg/440px-Status_iucn3.1_LC.svg.png 2x" alt="Status_iucn3.1_LC.svg"></span></span><br><a href="/en/Least_Concern" title="Least Concern" class="mw-redirect wl">Least Concern</a> <small><span>&nbsp;</span>(<a href="/en/IUCN_Red_List" title="IUCN Red List" class="wl">IUCN 3.1</a>)<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-iucn_status_12_November_2021_1-0"><a href="#cite_note-iucn_status_12_November_2021-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span></small></div></td></tr>

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<td>Kingdom:</td>
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<td>Phylum:</td>
<td><a href="/en/Chordate" title="Chordate" class="wl">Chordata</a></td></tr>
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<td>Class:</td>
<td><a href="/en/Bird" title="Bird" class="wl">Aves</a></td></tr>
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<td>Order:</td>
<td><a href="/en/Passerine" title="Passerine" class="wl">Passeriformes</a></td></tr>
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<td>Family:</td>
<td><a href="/en/Wattle-eye" title="Wattle-eye" class="wl">Platysteiridae</a></td></tr>
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<td>Genus:</td>
<td><a href="/en/Platysteira" title="Platysteira" class="wl"><i>Platysteira</i></a></td></tr>
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<td>Species:</td>
<td><div style="display:inline" class="species"><i><b>P.<span>&nbsp;</span>peltata</b></i></div></td></tr>








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<td colspan="2" style="text-align: center"><b><span class="binomial"><i>Platysteira peltata</i></span></b><br><div style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/en/Carl_Jakob_Sundevall" title="Carl Jakob Sundevall" class="wl">Sundevall</a>, 1850</div></td></tr>
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The black-throated wattle-eye is a species of bird in the family Platysteiridae.
It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. 