African Silverbill
Lonchura
malabarica
Photographed in the wild,
Kahala, on Big Island Hawaii Mar 2014
The African Silverbill is relatively common in many areas in the Hawaiian Islands, particularly on Maui and the Big Island. The African Silverbill was imported, date unknown but first recorded in the early 1970's to Hawaii and is found throughout the Islands. The first recorded sighting of them was in the 1970's. African Silverbills were mainly kept as a caged pet outside of their native African environment and the ones found in Hawaii may have escaped or were abandoned pets.
African Silverbills are a small warbler bird with the upper-parts brown, the under-parts white and a long pointed black tail. The bill is a silver-blue and chunky. Both sexes are similar and difficult to distinguish.
The Silverbill prefers dry areas and may nest in kiawe trees and have four to six whitish eggs.
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