Editing Padda

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| name = ''Padda''
| image =Buberel_Lonchura_oryzivora_3.jpg
| image_caption = [[Java sparrow]] (''Padda oryzivora'')
| taxon = Padda
| authority = [[Ludwig Reichenbach|Reichenbach]], 1850
| type_species= ''Loxia oryzivora''<br/>[[Java sparrow]]
| type_species_authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758
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''''' Padda ''''' is a genus of [[estrildid finch]]es restricted to islands in southern [[Indonesia]].

These are small, plump, gregarious [[passerine]] [[bird]]s. They frequent open grassland and cultivation and feed mainly on grain and other seeds, including [[rice]].

Both species have white-cheeked black heads and thick bills. The sexes are similar, but immature birds have brown upperparts and paler brown underparts and cheeks. The call of both species is a ''chip'', and the song is a raid series of call notes ''chipchipchipchipchipchip''.

==Taxonomy==
The genus ''Padda'' was introduced in 1850 by the German naturalist [[Ludwig Reichenbach]] for the [[Java sparrow]].<ref>{{ cite book | last=Reichenbach | first=Ludwig | author-link=Ludwig Reichenbach | year=1850 | title=Avium Systema Naturale | publisher=Expedition Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte | language=German | location=Dresden and Leipzig | at=Plate LXXVI | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47618517 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Paynter | editor-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1968 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=14 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=387 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14481588 }}</ref> The word "Padda" was used as an English name for the Java sparrow by [[George Edwards (naturalist)|George Edwards]] in 1743 and may come from the [[Malay language|Malay]] word ''padi'' meaning "rice".<ref>{{ cite book | last=Edwards | first=George | author-link=George Edwards (naturalist) | year=1743 | title=A Natural History of Uncommon Birds | location=London | publisher=Printed for the author at the College of Physicians | volume=Part I | page=41 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50240671 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=288 }}</ref>

===Species===
The species are:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2021 | title=Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/waxbills/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=12 July 2021 }}</ref>
{{Species table |genus= Padda |authority-name=[[Ludwig Reichenbach|Reichenbach]] |authority-year=1850 |species-count=two|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

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|name=[[Java sparrow]] |binomial=[[Padda oryzivora]]
|image=File:Java Sparrow. (Lonchura oryzivora), (10722015754).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Linnaeus|authority-year=1758 |authority-not-original=yes
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|name=  [[Timor sparrow]] |binomial=[[Padda fuscata]]
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|authority-name=Vieillot |authority-year=1807 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= [[Timor]]
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|iucn-status= NT
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Java sparrow is a popular [[cagebird]], and has been introduced in a large number of other countries. Both ''Padda'' species are threatened by trapping for the cage bird trade.
Many taxonomists now place this genus in ''[[Lonchura]]'' with the mannikins and munias.

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[[Category:Birds of Indonesia]]