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Lonchura leucogastroides

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Location: Java, Indonesia

[edit] Identification

11 cm. Head, upper breast, upperparts blackish brown; lower breast and belly white (no streaking); tail brown. Genders look alike. Juvenile: As adult but face, throat and breast brown; rest of underparts buff.

Call: Described as a soft prruitor tit; in alarm a louder call.

[edit] Distribution

Java, Sumatra and Lombok.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.

[edit] Habitat

[edit] Behaviour

Diet includes grass seeds.

Nest are made of dried grass leaves and stems, lined with soft fluffy grass seeds and are placed in trees and bushes. 5-6, up to 9, white eggs are laid. Both parents may incubate, or just the female for 13 days; young are fed regurgitated seeds, the parents choosing soft ripening seeds rather than hard, dry ones. After they fledge in 18-20 days, the young may stay with the parents near the nest for some time.

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