The chestnut munia or black-headed munia (Lonchura atricapilla) is a small passerine. It was formerly considered conspecific with the closely related tricoloured munia, but is now widely recognized as a separate species. This estrildid finch is a resident breeding bird in Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Burma, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and Hawaii. It also has been introduced to all the Greater Antilles and Martinique in the Caribbean.
Before 1995, it was the national bird of the Philippines,[2]
where it is known as mayang pula ("red maya") because of its brick red patch on the lower back which is visible only when it flies. (This distinguishes it from other birds locally called maya, notably the predominantly brownish "mayang simbahan" (tree sparrow)[3] which is more common in urban areas.)
^BirdLife International (2016). "Lonchura atricapilla". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22729138A95007301. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22729138A95007301.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
^Kennedy, Robert; et al. (21 September 2000). A Guide to the Birds of the Philippines. OUP Oxford. ISBN 0-19-854668-8.
The chestnutmunia or black-headed munia (Lonchura atricapilla) is a small passerine. It was formerly considered conspecific with the closely related tricoloured...
Rico, Cuba, and Venezuela. This species, like the chestnutmunia has been known as the black-headed munia. Immature birds have pale brown upperparts, lack...
Lonchura is a genus of the estrildid finch family, and includes munias (or minias) and mannikins. They are seed-eating birds that are found in South Asia...
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World tropics and Australasia. They comprise species commonly known as munias, mannikins, firefinches, parrotfinches and waxbills. Despite the word "finch"...
collected grass, or take over abandoned nests built by smaller birds (chestnutmunia). Nesting can occur in a wide variety of different environments, but...
shape. It flies together/commonly with Eurasian tree sparrows and chestnutmunias. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rhipidura nigritorquis. "Philippine...
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