Red Avadavat - BirdForum Opus

Alternative name: Red Munia, Strawberry Finch

Nominate subspecies : Male in breeding plumage
Photo © by vinaydarbal
Mysore, India, June 2010

Amandava amandava

Identification

Nominate subspecies : Female
Photo © by Alok Tewari
Dist. Gurgaon, Haryana, India, April 2016

9·5 cm (3¾ in)
The Red Avadavat is the size of a sparrow. The males in their breeding season have colourful plumage.

Distribution

Juvenile
Photo © by Shantilal Varu
Pariej, Kheda, Gujarat, India, 23 December 2012

South Asia - Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand and Vietnam.

Introduced populations also exist in southern Spain, Brunei, Fiji, Malaysia, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Singapore and Hawaii.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Amandava amandava has three subspecies:^[1]

• A. a. amandava

• Lowlands of Pakistan to India, southern Nepal and Bangladesh

• A. a. punicea

• South-eastern China to south-eastern Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Java and Bali

• A. a. flavidiventris

• South-western China (Yunnan) to Myanmar, Malay Peninsula and Lesser Sundas

Habitat

Open grassland and paddy fields

Behaviour

They breed in the monsoon season.

Vocalisation

Recording © by Alok Tewari
Male giving lovely song close to a railway track; sound of a passing locomotive and train is heard in the BG.

Gallery

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  Subspecies A. a. punicea : Non-breeding male (left) and female (right)
  Photo © by Ayuwat J
  Nam Kham Nature Reserve, Chiang San, Chiang Rai, Thailand

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  Flight
  Photo © by bambuza
  Chiangmai,Thailand, 12 October 2009

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Red Avadavat. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 18 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Red_Avadavat

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