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Lonchura striata · Family Estrildidae

Lonchura striata

Family Estrildidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Estrildidae
GBIF occurrence records
203,383
Countries and territories with records
36
White-rumped Munia
Thomas Brown · White-rumped Munia (Lonchura striata) (5780780488).jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Thomas Brown · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Secora K, Peterson J, Urbano C, Chung B, Okanoya K, Cooper B · Syringeal-Specialization-of-Frequency-Control-during-Song-Production-in-the-Bengalese-Finch-pone.0034135.s002.ogg · CC BY 2.5 · Secora K, Peterson J, Urbano C, Chung B, Okanoya K, Cooper B · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 203,383 occurrence records from 36 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (42.2%), Taiwan (27.1%), Sri Lanka (8.3%), Thailand (7.2%) and China (4.3%); together they account for 89% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.14% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Lonchura striata combines the genus name Lonchura with the species epithet striata. The Warbla app catalog lists 24 species of the genus Lonchura; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Lonchura punctulata, Lonchura atricapilla and Lonchura castaneothorax.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 120 species of the family Estrildidae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Lonchura punctulata. Its record count is 4.6 times the family average (44,065). The family Estrildidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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