Lonchura malacca
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In 3 days <5% in a week ~10%
The tricoloured munia (Lonchura malacca) is an estrildid finch, native to Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and southern China. The species has also been introduced to the Caribbean, in Trinidad, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Venezuela. This species, like the chestnut munia has been known as the black-headed munia. Immature birds have pale brown upperparts, lack the dark head found in adults, and have uniform buff underparts that can be confused with immatures of other munias such as the scaly-breasted munia.
The tricolored munia was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1766 in the twelfth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Loxia malacca. Linnaeus mistakenly specified the locality as China, Java and Malacca. This was corrected by E. C. Stuart Baker in 1926 as Belgaum in the state of Karnataka in southwest India. The specific epithet malacca is a geographical misnomer; the species does not occur on the Malay Peninsula. The tricolored munia is now placed in the genus Lonchura that was introduced by the English naturalist William Henry Sykes in 1832. This species was formerly treated as conspecific with the... Wikipedia →
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Horton Plains National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 2 | Caroni Swamp | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago | |
| 3 | Yala National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 4 | Wilpattu National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 5 | Minneriya National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 6 | Udawalawe National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 7 | Los Haitises National Park | 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic | |
| 8 | Chitwan National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 9 | Royal Bardia National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 10 | Palo Verde National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 11 | Lago de Yojoa | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 12 | Manuel Antonio National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 13 | Kanha National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 14 | Carara National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 15 | Bandipur National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 16 | Nagarhole National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 17 | Bandhavgarh National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 18 | Satpura National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 19 | Sinharaja Forest Reserve | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 20 | Cerro Azul Meámbar National Park | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 21 | Sundarbans National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 22 | Jim Corbett National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 23 | Braulio Carrillo National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 24 | Keoladeo National Park | 🇮🇳 India |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vijayawada | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Tamluk | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Vasai-Virar | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Surat | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Kolkata | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Thiruvananthapuram | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Ponnani | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | San Pedro Sula | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 9 | Jamshedpur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Chattogram | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Tricolored Munia sighting in Dhaka on a given day, based on 26 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 124th most-seen of the 185 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, and over a week to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June and October
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Tricolored Munia in Dhaka on a given day, against under 5% in July–September and November–May, the lowest months. Those are among Dhaka's wettest months, with about 280 mm of rain a month against 10 mm in January.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Tricolored Munia sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
29th of 44
Of the 44 cities where we can rate Tricolored Munia sightings, Dhaka ranks 29th at under 5%. The best odds are in Vijayawada (India, about 20%), Tamluk (India, about 10%) and Vasai-Virar (India, about 10%).
Same genus: Lonchura
The closest relatives of the Tricolored Munia that you can see in Dhaka (genus Lonchura, Typical Munias and Mannikins) are Nutmeg Mannikin (about 10%) and Chestnut Munia (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Tricolored Munia is recorded against all the birds logged in Dhaka (26 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
