Red avadavat: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 13:03, 10 April 2007

Revision as of 23:05, 19 May 2007

Line 19:

| range_map_caption =

}}

The '''Red Munia''', ''Amandava amandava'' also known as '''Red Avadavat''' is a sparrow-sized bird of the [[Munia]] family. It is found in [[South AsiaIndia]] with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 10,000,000 km². They are popular cage birds due to the colourful plumage of the males in their breeding season. Their normal habitat is open grassland and paddy fields. They breed in the monsoon season. The species name ''amandava'' and the common name of ''avadavat'' is derived from the city of Ahmedabad in [[Gujarat]] from where these birds were exported into the pet trade.

The species is native to [[Bangladesh]], [[Cambodia]], [[China]], [[Egypt]], [[Republic of India]], [[Indonesia]], [[Myanmar]], [[Nepal]], [[Pakistan]], [[Thailand]] and [[Vietnam]]

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