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[[Image:Red Avadavat (Amandava amandava)- Female in Kolkata W IMG 3311.jpg|thumb|left|Female with red rump visible]]This small finch is easily identified by the rounded black tail and the bill that is seasonally red. The rump is red and the breeding male is red on most of the upper parts except for a black eye-stripe, lower belly and wings. There are white spots on the red body and wing feathers. The non-breeding male is duller but has the red-rump while the female is duller with less of the white spotting on the feathers.<ref name=pcr/><ref>{{cite book|author=Whistler, Hugh|year=1949|title=Popular Handbook of Indian Birds|publisher=Gurney and Jackson|pages=216–217|url=https://archive.org/stream/popularhandbooko033226mbp#page/n259/mode/1up}}</ref>
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Red avadavats are found mainly on flat plains, in places with tall grasses or crops, often near water.<ref name=pcr>{{cite book|author1=Rasmussen PC |author2=JC Anderton |name-list-style=amp |year=2005| title =Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide. Volume 2|page=572| publisher= Smithsonian Institution & Lynx Edicions}}</ref> The species has four named subspecies. The nominate subspecies is called ''amandava'' and is found in [[Bangladesh]], [[India]], [[Nepal]] and [[Pakistan]]; the Burmese form is called ''flavidiventris'' (also found in parts of [[China]], [[Indonesia]], [[Thailand]] and [[Vietnam]]);<ref>{{cite journal| author=Baker, E.C.S. | year=1921 | title=The birds of the Indian Empire: Hand-list of the "Birds of India", Part 3 |journal=Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society |volume=27|issue=4|pages= 692–744|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30359388}}</ref> the population further east in Java is called ''punicea'' and in Cambodia, ''decouxi''.<ref>{{cite book|pages=192–193|title=Fauna of British India. Birds. Volume 2|author=Oates, EW|year=1890| publisher=Taylor and Francis, London |url=https://archive.org/stream/faunaofbritishin02oate#page/192/mode/1up/search/amandava}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/stream/bulletinunitedst2261963unit#page/216/mode/1up/search/amandava|pages=216|year=1963| journal=United States National Museum Bulletin |volume =226| title=Checklist of the birds of Thailand| author=Deignan, H.G.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/checklistofbirds141968pete#page/348/mode/1up|pages=348–349| title=Check-list of the birds of the world|volume=14|author=Paynter RA (Ed)|year=1968|publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Baker ECS |title=Fauna of British India. Birds. Volume 3|edition=2nd|pages=95–97| url=https://archive.org/stream/BakerFbiBirds3/BakerFBI3#page/n116/mode/1up/| publisher=Taylor and Francis|year=1926}}</ref>
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