Padda fuscata (Timor Sparrow)

Overview

Threatened

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Timor Dusky Sparrow, Timor Sparrow

Common Names in French:

Padda De Timor

Common Names in German:

Timorreisfink

Description

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Family Passeridae

A Family of small passerines with plum brown or grey bodies, short tails, and stubby, powerful beaks.

Genus Padda

In Malabar, India, fish product consisting of slices of fish that have been dipped in paste of clarified butter or oil , with chilies, mustard and other spices and packed in jars.

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial

Ecology: It mainly frequents the extreme lowlands, sometimes ascending hills to around 700 m , where it regularly occurs as individuals or in small groups of three to five birds, occasionally mixed with other granivorous birds, and can form larger flocks with groups of 30-50 recently recorded4. It forages on or near the ground in grassland, lightly wooded cattle-pasture, scrub , overgrown gardens, deciduous or degraded monsoon-forest and the margins of cultivation, and in Timor-Leste was found in Eucalyptus alba savanna , ricefields, severly degraded coastal shrublands and riparian woodland dominated by Casuarina4. Considered a considerable rice predator in Timor-Leste2, it has undoubtedly benefitted from land conversion to ricefields, allowing access to grains and water over long periods4. (Ref. 65560)

List of Habitats :1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland 3.6Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist 4.5Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry 14.1Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land

Taxonomy

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Domain: Eukaryota () - Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom: Animalia () - Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
  - Subkingdom: Bilateria () - (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
    - Branch: Deuterostomia () - Grobben, 1908
      - Infrakingdom: Chordonia () - (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
        Phylum: Chordata () - Bateson, 1885 - Chordates
        Subphylum: Vertebrata () - Cuvier, 1812 - Vertebrates
        Infraphylum: Gnathostomata () - Auct. - Jawed Vertebrates
        Superclass: Tetrapoda () - Goodrich, 1930
        Class: Aves () - Linnaeus, 1758 - Birds
        Subclass: Neornithes () - Gadow, 1893
        Infraclass: Neoaves ()
        Superorder: Passerimorphae ()
        Order: Passeriformes () - C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Perching Birds
        Suborder: Passeri ()
        Parvorder: Passerida ()
        Superfamily: Passeroidea ()
        Family: Passeridae () - True Sparrows
        Subfamily: Estrildinae ()
        Tribe: Estrildini ()
        Genus: Padda () - (Linnaeus, 1758) - Java Sparrows
        Specific name: fuscata - (Vieillot, 1807)
        Scientific name: - Padda fuscata (Vieillot, 1807)

Unambiguous Synonyms

Padda fuscata (Vieillot, 1807)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Padda

There are approximately 5 species in this genus:

P. fuscata (Timor Sparrow) · P. orizivora · P. orycivora · P. orysivora · P. oryzivora (Java Sparrow)

Bibliography

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Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
Bird Reference Citations. The numbers inserted in the text accounts above (usually in bold) refer to references. For further details on these references, click on the BirdLife International link above to go to the specific species account on the BirdLife web site. In some cases, particularly in the taxonomic notes, the references are cited using the author names. Details for these can be found on the BirdLife International web site at the following two places: For References from A–L. For References from M–Z.
BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
BirdLife International. 2005. Threatened Birds of the World 2005. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 30/04/2005.
Collar, N.J. and Andrew, P. 1988. Birds to Watch. The ICBP World Checklist of Threatened Birds. ICBP Technical Publication No. 8. Page Bros. (Norwich) Ltd, Norfolk, England.
Collar, N.J., Crosby, M.J. and Stattersfield, A.J. 1994. Birds to Watch 2. The World List of Threatened Birds BirdLife International. Page Bros (Norwich) Ltd, U.K.

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Contributors

BirdLife International 2005. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
BirdLife International 2005. Padda fuscata. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 3, 2006.
Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 17, 2008.

Identifiers

Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3854939
Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-561801
Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 334991
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 561801
IUCN ID: 15868
Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 6842