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Venue: Sungdung, Rongli, East Sikkim
Date: January 7, 2014
Pic: Swarup Rai
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Lonchura striata (White-rumped Munia)
Venue: Mazhitar, Rangpo, East Sikkim
Date: January 31, 2014
Pic: Santosh Sharma
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Lonchura striata (White-rumped Munia)
Venue: Chisopani, Singtam,, East Sikkim
Date: September 24, 2014
Pic: Shital Pradhan
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Scientific
classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Estrildidae
Genus: Lonchura
Species: L. striata
Binomial name: Lonchura striata (Linnaeus,
1766)
Other Names: white-rumped munia, white-rumped manikin;
sometimes called striated finch.
Special feature: It is native to tropical continental
Asia and some adjacent islands, and has been naturalized in some parts of
Japan. Its domesticated hybrid descendant, the society finch or Bengalese
finch, is found worldwide as a pet and a biological model organism. (Source:
Wikipedia)