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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 | last1=Rasmussen | first1=Pamela C. | author1-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | last2=Anderton | first2=John C. | year=2012 | title=Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide | volume=2: Attributes and Status | edition=2nd | publisher=Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Lynx Edicions | ___location=Washington D.C. and Barcelona | isbn=978-84-96553-87-3 | page=572 }}</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 name=baker/> 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 name=paynter/><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>

Introduced populations exist in several locations worldwide: southern [[Spain]],<ref>{{cite journal|title=Une nouvelle espèce à classer parmi les oiseaux de la Péninsule Ibérique: ''Estrilda (Amandava) amandava'' L. (Ploceidae, Passeriformes)|trans-title= A new species for the Iberian Peninsula: ''Estrilda (Amandava) amandava'' L. (Ploceidae, Passeriformes)|author1=De Lope F. |author2=Guerrero J. |author3=De La Cruz C. |journal= Alauda| year=1984| volume=52| issue=4}}</ref> [[Brunei]], [[Fiji]],<ref>{{cite journal|last=Langham|first=N.P.E.|year=1987|title=The annual cycle of the Avadavat ''Amandava amandava'' in Fiji|journal=Emu|volume=87|pages=232–243|doi=10.1071/MU9870232|issue=4}}</ref> [[Egypt]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/handlistofbirdso00nico#page/29/mode/1up|page=30|title=Handlist of the birds of Egypt|author=Nicoll, MJ |year=1919| publisher=Government Press, Cairo}}</ref> Malaysia, the United States, [[Bahrain]], [[Guadeloupe]], Iran, Italy, [[Réunion]], Malaysia, Mexico, the [[Dominican Republic]], [[Martinique]], Portugal, Japan, [[Puerto Rico]], [[Singapore]] Hawaii, and the Radomski’s houseHawaii.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Oiseaux granivores exotiques implantés en Guadeloupe, à Marie-Galante et en Martinique (Antilles françaises)|trans-title= Seed eating exotic birds established in Guadeloupe, Marie Galante and in Martinique (French West Indies)|author1=Barre N. |author2=Benito-Espinal E. |journal=L'Oiseau et la Revue française d'Ornithologie|year=1985| volume=55| issue=3 |pages=235–241}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Ticehurst | first=C.B. |year=1930 |title= The Amandavat (''Aamandava amandava'') in Mesopotamia| journal= Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society |volume=34|issue=2|page= 576|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48296085}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22719614/94635498|title = IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Amandava amandava|journal = IUCN Red List of Threatened Species|date = October 2016}}</ref>

==Behaviour and ecology==