Prakruti Parichay
EstrildidaeLonchura

Java Sparrow

Lonchura oryzivora

12.5–13 cmVery Small
Beak
—
Feet
—
Crest
No crest

Introduced resident (probably now extirpated). India and Sri Lanka. Adult is very striking, with pinkish-red bill and eye-ring, black crown and throat contrasting with white cheeks. grey upperparts and breast, pink belly and flanks. and black rump/uppertail~overts and tail. Juvenile is much duller, with dark grey crown and dusky white cheeks, pink base to grey bill, brownish-grey upperparts with rufous fringes to tertials and secondaries, and bullish underparts with diffuse greyish breast. Cultivation, gardens and reedbeds.

Colour

GreyBlackWhitePink
Average size
12.8 cm
Habitat
Cultivation, gardens and reedbeds.
Behaviour
Introduced resident (probably now extirpated).

About this bird

Introduced resident (probably now extirpated). India and Sri Lanka. Adult is very striking, with pinkish-red bill and eye-ring, black crown and throat contrasting with white cheeks. grey upperparts and breast, pink belly and flanks. and black rump/uppertail~overts and tail. Juvenile is much duller, with dark grey crown and dusky white cheeks, pink base to grey bill, brownish-grey upperparts with rufous fringes to tertials and secondaries, and bullish underparts with diffuse greyish breast. Cultivation, gardens and reedbeds.

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Java Sparrow is bigger than Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch but smaller than Ashy Prinia.

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Java Sparrow

Lonchura oryzivora

12.5–13 cm