This Bird Grows Strawberry-Like Plumage During The Breeding Season

The more you think you’ve seen all the beauties this world holds, the furthest to the truth you find out you are. Maybe unicorns are not true, but this bird you will see in the following pictures looks just as magical and mystical as them, but with one difference – it is true, it exists. Let's get to know strawberry finches together more closely.

Their natural range stretches from the Indus valley of Pakistan to the plains of the Brahmaputra extending south to the peninsula of India. The species has four named populations. Amandava amandava amandava - The nominate subspecies is found in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan;Amandava amandava flavidiventris - The Burmese form is also found in China, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam);Amandava amandava punicea - The form in Java is - also found in Cambodia.