Snow Mountain Munia
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The Snow Mountain Munia, Lonchura montana also known as Snow Mountain Mannikin or Western Alpine Mannikin is a small, approximately 11.5 cm long, estrildid finch
. Both sexes are similar with dark brown plumage, black face, buff chest and black-barred white abdomen. The young has black bill
, dark brown plumage and buffy-white below.
An Indonesia
n endemic
, the Snow Mountain Munia is distributed in alpine grassland of Snow Mountains and Star Mountains
in western New Guinea
. It usually found in flocks of six to twenty birds. The diet consists mainly of seeds, grasses and other vegetation matters.
A common species in its limited habitat range, the Snow Mountain Munia is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List
of Threatened Species.
Estrildid finch
The estrildid finches are small passerine birds of the Old World tropics and Australasia. They can be classified as the family Estrildidae , or as a sub-group within the family Passeridae, which also includes the true sparrows....
. Both sexes are similar with dark brown plumage, black face, buff chest and black-barred white abdomen. The young has black bill
Beak
The beak, bill or rostrum is an external anatomical structure of birds which is used for eating and for grooming, manipulating objects, killing prey, fighting, probing for food, courtship and feeding young...
, dark brown plumage and buffy-white below.
An Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
n endemic
Endemism in birds
An endemic bird area is a region of the world that contains two or more restricted-range species, while a "secondary area" contains one or more restricted-range species. Both terms were devised by Birdlife International....
, the Snow Mountain Munia is distributed in alpine grassland of Snow Mountains and Star Mountains
Star Mountains
The Star Mountains are a mountain range in western Papua New Guinea, stretching from the border with Indonesia, at about to the Hindenburg Range...
in western New Guinea
Western New Guinea
West Papua informally refers to the Indonesian western half of the island of New Guinea and other smaller islands to its west. The region is officially administered as two provinces: Papua and West Papua. The eastern half of New Guinea is Papua New Guinea.The population of approximately 3 million...
. It usually found in flocks of six to twenty birds. The diet consists mainly of seeds, grasses and other vegetation matters.
A common species in its limited habitat range, the Snow Mountain Munia is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List
IUCN Red List
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species , founded in 1963, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species. The International Union for Conservation of Nature is the world's main authority on the conservation status of species...
of Threatened Species.