Padda
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| name = Padda
| image =Buberel_Lonchura_oryzivora_3.jpg
| image_caption = Java sparrow (Padda oryzivora)
| taxon = Padda
| authority = Reichenbach, 1850
| type_species= Loxia oryzivora
Java sparrow
| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758
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Padda is a genus of estrildid finches restricted to islands in southern Indonesia.
These are small, plump, gregarious passerine birds. 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.{{ 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 }}{{ 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 }} The word "Padda" was used as an English name for the Java sparrow by George Edwards in 1743 and may come from the Malay word padi meaning "rice".{{ 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 }}{{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 }}
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{{Species table |genus= Padda |authority-name=Reichenbach |authority-year=1850 |species-count=two|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}
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|name=Java sparrow |binomial=Padda oryzivora
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|name= Timor sparrow |binomial=Padda fuscata
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|authority-name=Vieillot |authority-year=1807 |authority-not-original=yes
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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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