javan munia

Java Munia is a small bird eaters of rice and grains. The bird is also known by other names such as pipit Munia, piit Munia, emprit Munia and others, following the sound it produces. Lonchura leucogastroides is a scientific name. In the United Kingdom it is referred to as the Javan Munia.

Small birds, beak to the tip of the tail is about 11 cm. adult dominant Birds dark brown on the back, wings and sides of her body, with no strokes-strokes. Face, neck and upper breast black; lower chest, belly and clean white body sides,appeared to contrast with the upper part. The underside brownish tail. Youngbirds with chest and abdomen yellowish brown dirty. Males do not differ from females in such sightings.IRIS Brown eyes; the upper half of the beak is blackish, the bluish-grey; greyish legs. 

Birds that are commonly found in rural and urban environments, especially nearrice fields. Eat rice and a variety of grains, rice visited often Java Munia, meadows, open fields and gardens bervegetasi. This bird is often down to the ground or swinging on a stalk of flowers grass ate the ears of grain. 

Generally live Java Munia pairs or in small groups, including mixed with othertypes of Munia with peking Munia (l. punctulata). The Group was originally composed of several tails, but the rice harvest in this group can achieve hundreds of enlarged tail. It appears strikingly in the afternoon at the time flyingand stood together on her bed. A large group like this can be a very harmfulpests of rice farmers.

 Javan Munia. Darmaga, Bogor. These birds often nest in my yard and home page, on the trees, titled green, at an altitude of 2 – 10 m above the ground. The nest is a ball that is built from the leaves and flowers of grass in layers, put hidden among the leaves and twigs, leaf stalks in the gap or palma. Multiplyingthe recorded throughout the year, each time putting Java Munia laying 4-5 eggs, which are white. Size approx. 14 x 10 mm.

 Munia nest, Java's semarang guava Reads smoother, cri-cri, ii-i. .. or ci-ii..; andpit. .. pit. .. . But in a group, especially when perched together, this sounds sopretty membisingkan. Similarly the sound his hatchlings. Munia is distributed mainly in Java and Bali, Java to a height of 1,500 m above sea level. Also found in the southern part of Sumatra, Lombok, and are introduced to Singapore.