Chestnut Munia (Philippine)

Lonchura atricapilla jagori

Classification

Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Estrildidae

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 accepted 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.

Distribution

Chestnut Munia (Philippine) — (c) gery-dupas, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by gery-dupas · CC-BY-SA

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 1

Sources and credits

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Chestnut Munia (Philippine)

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