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Timor Zebra Finch

Taeniopygia guttata

Photo by Deny
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Field Notes

Description:

True gray of head . Striped black and white to the round of black or just red eyes as the main character of orange to the side of face ( cheek ) and it's bill for the male ; female not orange to the cheek . Seed bill kindly of feeding interest , or just may get on tryng for insect . Low gray abdominal part to the both of two different for sex genitalia . But , that's the male to the hight for different with the black of its throat for looking a necklace as the border colour of plumage with the part of its breast ; thus character's not to the female . The tail more looking little long than sparrow and looks for slimmy body morpholog at the colour of striped white detailed for contrastly .

Habitat:

Aside of roadway to the nearly of ricefield .

Notes:

The bird interest for seen pair as it's small colony ( 3 - 4) or just large colony to the number of more than 50 . The wind as interest of balancing ecology of this bird may get the right factor to the safety of this bird movement , and than the building of their true habitat of course .

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Comments (2)

Ye . Thank you very much . They keep their distance with another number of theirs . Lovely bird 😀
Excellent. They look slightly different to ours.

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