Talk:Tree Sparrow

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[edit] Re "maya"

What used to be the National Bird of the Philippines (before it was changed to the Philippine Eagle (Pithecophga jefferyi)) was the Black-headed Munia or Chestnut Munia (Lonchura malacca), not the Eurasian Tree-Sparrow (Passer montanus). Both the Munia and the Sparrow are called maya in the Philipines, which may have caused the confusion about the Eurasian Tree-Sparrow as the former national bird in that country.