Great-billed Mannikin

Lonchura grandis

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernSeedsGrasslandDomed nestTiny · 14 g

When to see the Great-billed Mannikin

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 5 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Great-billed Mannikin

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 2 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in United States.

About the Great-billed Mannikin

The great-billed mannikin or grand munia is a species of estrildid finch found in northern and eastern New Guinea. It is found in wetlands habitat. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

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