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Chestnut-breasted Mannikin photographed at Currumbin Sanctuary
Image by ozwildlife - Some rights reserved.
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BIRD FACTS |
Description
The Chestnut-breasted Mannikin is a small finch with strong silvery bill
Other Names
Barley bird, Bullfinch
Size
10 cm
Habitat
grasslands, pastures, wastelands, roadsides
Food
Mainly seeds, also insects
Breeding
cup made of twigs, grass, lined with soft plat material, fur. 4-6 blue-white spotted eggs.
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Passeriformes | | Family: | Estrildidae | | Genus: | Lonchura | | Species: | castaneothorax | | Common Name: | Chestnut-breasted Mannikin |
Relatives in same Genus
Java Sparrow (L. oryzivora)
Nutmeg Munia (L. punctulata)
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