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Tricoloured munia

Lonchura malacca

Description:

This species like the chestnut munia has been known as the black-headed munia. Immature birds have pale brown upperparts, lack the dark head found in adults, and have uniform buff underparts that can be confused with immatures of other munias such as the scaly-breasted munia.

Habitat:

spotted near a swamp inside IIM Trichy campus, Tamilnadu.

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Nidhin Basheer
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Nidhin Basheer

Tamil Nadu, India

Spotted on Jan 23, 2017
Submitted on Jan 23, 2017

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