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Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
Sales Professional with great love for nature, collecting various birds on my camera, fighting for conservation of nature. My wife,Gaythri Devi also sharing similar interests and also being a better photographer, you can find us on Sundays in some jungle!

Saturday, December 11, 2010

White Rumped Munia


Lonchura striata 10-11cm
Venmuthuguchillai in Tamil (வெண்முதுகுசில்லை)
Resident. Dark breast and white rump. Souther L.s.striata has clean black throat and breast, and unstreaked creamy-white or white belly. Northern acuticauda has pale streaking on ear-coverts, rufous brown to whitish fringes to brown breast, and dingy underparts with faint streaking. Open wooded areas and scrub.

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