|Scientific Name:||Padda oryzivora| |Species
Authority:||(Linnaeus, 1758)| |Red List Category &
Criteria:||Vulnerable A2bde+3bde+4bde ver 3.1|
|Reviewer/s:||Butchart, S. & Symes, A.| The popularity of this
finch as a cage-bird has resulted in intense trapping activity,
which is inferred to be causing rapid declines in the
population. Unless stringent regulations are enforced, these
declines are likely to continue, and as such it is listed as
Vulnerable. |Range Description:||Padda oryzivora is a native
endemic of the islands of Java, Bali, and probably Madura,
Indonesia, although it has been widely introduced, with feral
populations now established in many parts of the world. It was
formerly widespread and abundant in its native range, but
numbers have crashed disastrously. It can now be difficult to
find, particularly on Java (N. Brickle in litt. 2012); a recent
survey looked at 64 former locations and located only 109
individuals at 17 sites (Muchtar and Nurwatha 2001). The
majority of documented recent reco