Javan Munia (Lonchura leucogastroides)

Javan Munia (Lonchura leucogastroides). Indonesian-Bondol Jawa, Pipit, Emprit. Easy to watch this birds in Krapyak Wetan Jogjakarta. Sometime this birds is captured by hunters for food. You can eat fried munia in street stall (angkringan). The density this birds very high. This birds can be pests for farmers. So, farmers usually made orang-orangan to scary birds away from the ricefields. Some elaborate bird-scaring devices have been developed, using either wind power or a small boy sits in a raised hut in the middle of the field, pulling strings to activate rattles.

Birdwatching In Krapyak Wetan Jogjakarta

It located south side jogjakarta city (about 3,5 km). See http://wikimapia.com/ with html code

or
search by keyword “makam krapyak wetan”. Birdwatching in Krapyak Wetan
Jogjakarta I found several birds:

1. Javan
   Munia (Lonchura leucogastroides)


2. white-headed
   Munia (Lonchura maja)


3. Eurasian
   Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus)


4. White
   bellied Swiftlet (Collocalia esculenta)


5. Olive-backed
   Sunbird (Nectarinia jugularis)


6. Sooty
   headed bulbuls (Pycnonotus goiavier)

I use nude eye to see all that birds. So, many birds can be
loss to record. To identify the bird I use field guide book. John
MacKinnon Field Guide Book to the Birds
of Java and Bali is my choice. With compare my note, sketch and Field Guide
Book, I can make unmistakable to identify that birds. Date of birdwatching on
Sunday, o6 May 2007.

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