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The Java sparrow (Lonchura oryzivora; Japanese: 文鳥, bunchō), also known as the Java finch, Java rice sparrow or Java rice bird, is a small passerine bird. [3] This estrildid finch is a resident breeding bird in Java, Bali and Bawean in Indonesia. It is a popular cage bird, and has been introduced into many other countries.
New World sparrows are related to Old World buntings, and until 2017, were included in the Old World bunting family Emberizidae. [10] [11] [4] The hedge sparrow or dunnock (Prunella modularis) is similarly unrelated. It is a sparrow in name only, a relict of the old practice of calling more types of small birds "sparrows". [12]
[2] [3] The type species was subsequently designated as the house sparrow (Passer domesticus). [3] [4] The name Passer is the Latin word for "sparrow." [5] A mixed group of Passer sparrows containing a Eurasian tree sparrow, a male house sparrow, and female house or Spanish sparrows, feeding on grain in the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan
Estrildidae, or estrildid finches, is a family of small seed-eating passerine birds of the Old World tropics and Australasia. They comprise species commonly known as munias, mannikins, firefinches, parrotfinches and waxbills. They are gregarious and often colonial seed eaters with short, thick, but pointed bills. They are all similar in ...
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Padda is a genus of estrildid finches restricted to islands in southern Indonesia.. These are small, plump, gregarious passerine birds.They frequent open grassland and cultivation and feed mainly on grain and other seeds, including rice.
White-browed sparrow-weaver: Plocepasser mahali Smith, A, 1836: 4 Chestnut-crowned sparrow-weaver: Plocepasser superciliosus (Cretzschmar, 1827) 5 Donaldson Smith's sparrow-weaver: Plocepasser donaldsoni Sharpe, 1895: 6 Chestnut-backed sparrow-weaver: Plocepasser rufoscapulatus Büttikofer, 1888: 7 Rufous-tailed weaver: Histurgops ruficauda ...
The Old World sparrow genus Passer is a group of small passerine birds that is believed to have originated in Africa, and which contains 15–25 species depending on the authority. [10] Its members are typically found in open, lightly wooded, habitats, although several species, notably the house sparrow (P. domesticus) have adapted to human ...