![]() ![]() ![]() During the construction process, they very deftly penetrate the building material (literally "sew, weave"), therefore they are often called "weavers" among the people. For construction, birds choose leaves from trees and various plant fibers. It is worth noting the oval nests that the parrot Amadina builds. 3-month-old Amadines become sexually mature and ready to reproduce. Thus, one pair of parrots can grow up to 4 broods per year. Young parrots leave the nest about 2 months after birth. ![]() After successful breeding, the female lays up to 4 eggs, which incubate for 14 days. During a short period of "courtship", the male lures his beloved with a variety of trills. After the departure of the grown young, the couple immediately goes to the mating season. The Amadins are looking for food with the whole flock and fly away only to feed their offspring. But during the feeding of the offspring, birds switch to protein foods - insects, larvae. In the wild, birds feed mainly on plant seeds, rarely grain. With nutritional deficiencies, some subspecies can roam, and even sometimes settle in parks near people or raid farmlands. Nesting places rarely leave - they fly only in the vicinity, looking for food and water. And there are also differences that differ depending on the species.īlack beak and less variegated plumage up to a year.įlocks of birds, which number up to several thousand birds, are found both in open areas and in remote forest groves. Males of some subspecies change clothes before the breeding season, and become similar to females.Ĭoral and larger beak in males, orange and smaller in females. Singing resembles whistling, chirping, hissing, gurgling, while females sing worse than males. They are classified according to the size of the body and the color of the plumage. In length they reach almost 8 cm, and in span up to 16 cm. Thickened, bent in an arc, looks almost transparent, as if made of wax (for this, birds are also called "wax-billed"). Subtropics and tropics - a combination of red, black, blue, green, purple, yellow. Temperate latitudes - combinations of gray, brown, white shades, The color of the plumage varies depending on the habitat: ![]() White-faced munia Lonchura vana (Hartert, 1930) Description Sharp-tailed bronze finch Lonchura striata (Linnaeus, 1766)īlack Munia Lonchura stygia Stresemann, 1934īlack-breasted Munia Lonchura teerinki Rand 1940įuneral finch Lonchura tristissima (Wallace, 1865) Magnificent Munia Lonchura spectabilis (Sclater, 1879) Lonchura quinticolor five-color munia (Vieillot, 1807) Scaly-breasted finch Lonchura punctulata (Linnaeus, 1758) White-bellied Munia Lonchura pallidiventer Restall, 1996 Pale-headed munia Lonchura pallida (Wallace, 1863) Yellow-breasted Munia Lonchura nevermanni Stresemann, 1934įuneral Munia Lonchura nigerrima (Rothschild & Hartert, 1899)īrown-backed munia Lonchura nigriceps (Cassin, 1852) Highland Munia Lonchura montana Junge, 1939Īlpine Munia Lonchura monticola (De Vis, 1897) Moluccan finch Lonchura molucca (Linnaeus, 1766) Thick-billed finch Lonchura melaena (Sclater, 1880) Malabar finch Lonchura malabarica (Linnaeus, 1758)īlack-headed munia Lonchura malacca (Linnaeus, 1766) White-headed munia Lonchura maja (Linnaeus, 1766) Spotted finch Lonchura leucosticta (Albertis & Salvadori, 1879) Javanese finch Lonchura leucogastroides (Horsfield & Moore, 1858) White-bellied finch Lonchura leucogastra (Blyth, 1846) Gold-lumbar finch Lonchura kelaarti (Jerdon, 1863) Gray-necked munia Lonchura hunsteini (Finsch, 1886) Pearl-headed finch Lonchura griseicapilla Delacour, 1943 Great Munia Lonchura grandis (Sharpe, 1882) Large finch-shirt Lonchura fringilloides (Lafresnaye, 1835)īrown finch Lonchura fuscans (Cassin, 1852) Lonchura forbesi striped munia (Sclater, 1879) Yellow Munia Lonchura flaviprymna (Gould, 1845) Javanese Munia Lonchura ferruginosa (Sparrman, 1789) Silver-billed finch Lonchura cantans (Gmelin, 1789)Ĭhestnut-breasted finch Lonchura castaneothorax (Gould, 1837)īronze-winged finch Lonchura cucullata (Swainson, 1837) Gray-headed munia Lonchura caniceps (Salvadori, 1876) malacca atricapilla)īlack and white finch Lonchura bicolor (Fraser, 1843) Eastern black-headed munia Lonchura atricapilla (Vieillot, 1807), sometimes considered a subspecies of the black-headed munia (L. ![]()
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