White-rumped Munia (Lonchura striata)

Other Names (World)
White-rumped Munia, Sharp-tailed Munia, Long-tailed Munia, Striated Munia, White-backed Munia, Hodgson's Munia, White-rumped Mannikin, Striated Mannikin, Striated Finch, Bengalese Munia, Bengalee, Bengalese Finch, Society Finch

Family
Estrildidae (Waxbills)

Size
10 - 11.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaus, 1766)

Habitat
Scrub and forest edges, croplands.

Range (Guide)

Bangladesh, Bhutan (B), Cambodia, China (mainland), India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore (B), Sri Lanka, Taiwan (China), Thailand, Vietnam.

Introduced to Japan (B).

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Habits
In small noisy flocks.

Voice
A thin, twittering 'chee chee, peet peet', and a high-pitched, rolling 'prreee' or 'breeet' uttered in flight.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (81)...)

White-rumped Munia (Lonchura striata) [XC447338]
by Albert Lastukhin from Tambon Mae Win, \u0e2d\u0e33\u0e40\u0e20\u0e2d \u0e41\u0e21\u0e48\u0e27\u0e32\u0e07, Chang Wat Chiang Mai, Thailand (call)

White-rumped Munia (Lonchura) [XC399209]
by Werzik from Tambon Sai Ma, Amphoe Mueang Nonthaburi, Chang Wat Nonthaburi, Thailand (call, investigative call)

Nest
Large, domed, composed of grass located in a bush, tree or grass.

Eggs (Guide)
3 - 8; white.

Subspecies
Has been thought to form a superspecies with Javan Munia (Lonchura leucogastroides).

All subspecies apart from nominate sometimes considered a separate species, but the two forms appear to intergrade in south-eastern India. Taiwan population sometimes separated as subspecies phaethontoptila, but appear hardly different from swinhoei, and therefore included within latter. Proposed subspecies explita, a replacement for preoccupied sumatrensis (described from Tanjong Kassan, in Sumatra), is treated as a synonym of subsquamicollis.

The following 7 subspecies are recognised:

striata (Linnaus, 1766) - Western and north-eastern peninsular India, and Sri Lanka.
acuticauda (Hodgson, 1836) - Northern India (eastern from Uttarakhand) and southern Nepal eastern in Himalayan foothills to Bangladesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar (except south), north-western Thailand, northern Laos and north-western Vietnam (western Tonkin).
fumigata (Walden, 1873) - Andaman Is.
semistriata (Hume, 1874) - Nicobar Is.
subsquamicollis (Baker, ECS, 1925) - Southern Myanmar (Tenasserim), Thailand (except north-west), central and southern Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia south to Singapore, Sumatra and Bangka I.
swinhoei (Cabanis, 1882) - Southern and south-eastern China (eastern from Yunnan), north-eastern Vietnam (eastern Tonkin), Hainan I and Taiwan.
explita (Chasen, 1940) - Sporadic but locally common on Sumatra and Bangka I.

References
See References.

Files:

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