Munia bird (maya pula)

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PHILIPPINES SAIJIKI

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Munia bird (maya)

***** Location: Philippines
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***** Category: Animal

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Explanation


It used to be the National Bird (symbol) of the Philippines. In 1995 the Philippine Eagle took its place when then Philippine President Ramos proclaimed it as the new National Bird.

Angelo Ancheta

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Lonchura
is a genus of the estrildid finch family, and includes munias (or minias), mannikins, and silverbills. They are resident breeding birds in Africa and in South Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia and the Philippines. The name mannikin is from Middle Dutch mannekijn 'little man' (also the source of the different bird name manakin).

Some of the Lonchura species were formerly placed in Spermestes. Others have been placed in a genus of their own, Euodice.

List of various species:
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The Philippine Maya Bird
Chestnut Munia
Lonchura atricapilla jagori

Known as maya pula ("red maya", to distinguish it from the predominantly brownish Tree Sparrow which is also called maya) in the Philippines.

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Worldwide use


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU


shortly before dusk
chirping munias roost on trees
to pass the night


December dusk
twittering munias roost
on dying branches

Wilfredo R. Bongcaron


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after a drizzle
on an old twig
maya feathers

Angelo Ancheta


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Related words

Finch, finches in all seasons
Bird Saijiki


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