Two Scaly-breasted Munia live in an M.C. Escher world.
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Scaly-breasted Munia perches comfortably on old barbed wire.
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Wee Scaly-breasted Munia fits comfortably in a chain link fence.
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Scaly-breasted Munia escaped the pet shop trade where they were bought and sold as “Spice Finches” and “Nutmeg Mannikins.”
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Scaly-breasted Munia in the L.A. River balances on a tender stalk of grass while eating seeds.
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Scaly-breasted Munia looking very Apocalypse Now in the Los Angeles River.
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Scaly-breasted Munia escaped the pet trade, where they suffered the cutesy moniker of “Nutmeg Mannikin.”
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Scaly-breasted Munia glow magenta in the gloaming.
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Scaly-breasted Munia usually flit and flutter in the tall grasses near the river, constantly on the move, in groups of five to twenty birds.
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Scaly-breasted Munia - a species that escaped the pet trade - goes incognito deep in the reeds of the Los Angeles River.
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