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Yellow-rumped Mannikin

(Lonchura flaviprymna)
Alternate name(s): "Yellow-rumped Munia", "Yellow-tailed Finch", "Yellow-rumped Finch", "White-headed Finch"
Size: 11-12 cm
Weight: 10-13 g

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Description     Classification     Distribution     Sightings     Photos     Breeding     Nest     Eggs     Behaviour     Food     Call/s

Physical description

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Taxonomy, classification

See Yellow-rumped Mannikin at Wikipedia .

Range, habitat, finding this species

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Sightings

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Photos

ADULT

Sex unknown

Lateral view of an adult Yellow-rumped Mannikin - click on image to see the bird together with Chestnut-breasted Mannikins (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Darwin, NT, December 2015]

Three Yellow-rumped Mannikins, together with Chestnut-breasted Mannikins, lined up in rank reeds
(photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Darwin, NT, December 2015]

IMMATURE/JUVENILE

Close-up frontal view of two juvenile Yellow-rumped Mannikins (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[100 km W of Timber Creek, NT, July 2020]

Close-up frontal view of two juvenile Yellow-rumped Mannikins (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[100 km W of Timber Creek, NT, July 2020]

Close-up frontal view of two juvenile Yellow-rumped Mannikins with a female Pictorella Mannikin
(photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[100 km W of Timber Creek, NT, July 2020]

Three juvenile Yellow-rumped Mannikins at a waterhole (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[100 km W of Timber Creek, NT, July 2020]

Close-up lateral view of a juvenile Yellow-rumped Mannikin (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[100 km W of Timber Creek, NT, July 2020]

Close-up lateral view of a juvenile Yellow-rumped Mannikin (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[100 km W of Timber Creek, NT, July 2020]

Behaviour

In the Darwin area, Yellow-rumped Mannikins are seldom seen alone; they usually appear interspersed into larger flocks of Chestnut-breasted Mannikins. Only farther inland, larger flocks of Yellow-rumped Mannikins can be found.

Yellow-rumped Mannikins feeding by the side of a gravel road (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Victoria River, NT, July 2018]

Food, Diet

Yellow-rumped Mannikins are seed eaters.

Juvenile Yellow-rumped Mannikins at a waterhole, together with a family of Star Finches (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[100 km W of Timber Creek, NT, July 2020]

3 species of finches drinking together: Juvenile Yellow-rumped Mannikins, Star Finches and a Long-tailed Finch
(photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[100 km W of Timber Creek, NT, July 2020]

3 species of finches drinking together: Juvenile Yellow-rumped Mannikins, Star Finches and a Long-tailed Finch
(photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[100 km W of Timber Creek, NT, July 2020]

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