Snow Mountain Munia

Taxobox
name = Snow Mountain Munia
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Estrildidae
genus = "Lonchura"
species = "L. montana"
binomial = "Lonchura montana"
binomial_authority = Junge, 1939The Snow Mountain Munia, "Lonchura montana" also known as Snow Mountain Mannikin or Western Alpine Mannikin is a small, approximately 11.5cm 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 Indonesian 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.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=8730&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
* [http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=53366 IUCN Red List]