The white-headed munia is a small bird 11–13 centimeters long from the weaver family. Adult birds have a pure white head, a brown back, and a black belly.
The white-headed munia differs from related species by its completely white head without black spots. It helps control the amount of weed seeds and serves as prey for snakes and birds of prey.
pecking
Worker
birth time
Picking small food items from foliage, ground, or other surfaces.
Heavy rains in summer
Dogs, dolphins, lynx hang out for 9-25 years and party on their birthday three times a year
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very hot and very humid all year round, rain almost every day
very cold, short summer, almost no trees, lots of moss
days
How old you would be if you lived as {name}
Theoretical maximum lifespan estimated from the Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) mathematical model. This value reflects a biological potential derived from metabolic parameters, not from direct observation — real recorded lifespans are often significantly shorter.
very heavy rains in summer, almost no precipitation in winter
beak
adult
Maturity
About health
When your next birthday would fall if you lived as {name}
Repro interval
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Southeast Asia and islands, always hot and humid
Colors
Sex
Upcoming jubilees
Gremllins
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Uses jaws or beak to break hard-shelled or tough food items.
Trophic type
Filters
seeds of cereals and meadow grasses
grain
always hot and humid, huge trees and vines
Upcoming birthdays
Breeding structure built or used for laying eggs and raising offspring.
Truly long lives: 40-100 years. Bowhead whales, albatrosses, giant tortoises recall their birthday at most once a year
Lifespan
leaf
Height
rains almost always, very humid
Age (juvenile)
Age (from birth to death)
Age (embryo)
Wanderers
Food items are collected from exposed outer surfaces of substrates.
world of Australasia
Jubilee = every 10th birthday
Tundra
Earliest developmental stage inside an egg or womb.
Business sausages
fruits
Lifespan average
seed
What do they look like?
Maturity
emergence (insects)
end of lifespan
How do they live?
fertilization / egg laying
How do they behave?
birth / hatching
metamorphosis / end of larval stage
end of acceleration
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Mature, fully developed individual capable of reproduction.
gleaning
Actively hunting and capturing live prey.
Pets
Indomalayan realm
Indomalayan realm
Repeatedly strikes or probes substrate with beak to obtain food.
Mangrove thickets
Feeding occurs primarily on land or in vegetation.
{name} jubilee
cm
Old-timers
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Wingspan
turns
Rascals
terrestrial forest
warm swampy sea shores, trees on roots
insect
hot Africa south of the desert, many savannas and forests
grains of cereals — wheat, rice, millet, maize
Litter size
Map data sources: Ecosystem classification — IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology (Keith et al., 2022), indicative distribution maps Keith et al. (2020), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3546513; Large Marine Ecosystems — NOAA LME Program; Bathymetry — GEBCO Bathymetric Compilation Group (2026), GEBCO_2026 Grid, https://doi.org/10.5285/4f68d5c7-45eb-f999-e063-7086abc036fa; Climate data — Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information; Species occurrence data — GBIF.org, Derived dataset "all animals", https://zveriki.com/dataset/dataset.tsv; Terrestrial ecoregions — RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017 (Dinerstein et al., 2017), CC BY 4.0
How to care for them?
Living from 25 to 40 years. Orangutans, bald eagles, African elephants celebrate their birthday twice a year
°C
Not specified
Actively searching habitats to locate food items.
pecks seeds on the ground and on plant stems
Where are they found?
herbivore
Legendary longevity: over 100 years. Galapagos tortoises, Greenland sharks, ocean quahogs celebrate with family once every 4 years
Offspring
Tropical moist forest
Elders
Bro
Taxons
seeds, berries, fruits
if born as {name}
age
birth date
Close
was
Career from 7 to 15 months. Dwarf hamsters, voles, field crickets celebrate their birthday twice a month
The basics
climbing
My weight?
Non-stop carnival: they only live a few days. Mayflies, rotifers, midges celebrate their birthday more than twice a day
surface
primary food sources
Potential Habitat
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In husbandry
On the go from 1.3 to 3.5 years. Forest mice, anoles, rainbow fish party on their birthday once a month
Mass
Mosquitoes, fruit flies, small crustaceans hustle for up to 7 months and throw a birthday party every week
terrestrial
Gestation
islands and part of Australia, many unusual animals and plants
{name} birthday
Food is gathered directly from leaf surfaces.
Always hot
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Hot with heavy summer rains
On the map
grass seeds
all life stages
Female ♀
Body color
Map data sources: Ecosystem classification — IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology (Keith et al., 2022), indicative distribution maps Keith et al. (2020), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3546513; Large Marine Ecosystems — NOAA LME Program; Bathymetry — GEBCO Bathymetric Compilation Group (2026), GEBCO_2026 Grid, https://doi.org/10.5285/4f68d5c7-45eb-f999-e063-7086abc036fa; Climate data — Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information; Species occurrence data — GBIF.org, Derived dataset "all animals", https://zveriki.com/dataset/dataset.tsv; Terrestrial ecoregions — RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017 (Dinerstein et al., 2017), CC BY 4.0
Potential habitat modelled from GBIF occurrence data. Map © Zveriki.com, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
birth year
Maturity
terrestrial habitat, land surface outside water
sq mm
yr
Beak color
How similar?
Male ♂
until the celebration
baby / chick
age as {name}
How do they breed?
On the go from 3.5 to 6 years. Hedgehogs, crows, lizards treat themselves to birthday snacks 6 times a year
What if eaten?
Neither
Moving up vertical surfaces like trunks or rocks to reach food.
from birth to adulthood
Young offspring still dependent on parental care.
nest
What do they eat?
Where do they live?
Immature individual that has not yet reached reproductive maturity.
from birth to death
Plumage color
forests on land — tropical, temperate, boreal
world of Afrotropics
small insects
Duration
Always hot and wet
This is me
from 11 to 16 grams, 1.5 – 12 centimeters
Always very wet
Gamers
crushing
hot, heavy rains in summer, little precipitation in winter
How are they built?
small insects without further specification
mm
Theoretical lifespan
ml
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My age?
wk
My size?
terrestrial
Asexual
swap
Southeast Asia and islands, always hot and humid
active predation
Mangrove forest
Rabbits, falcons, red-eared turtles hang out for 6-9 years and party on their birthday four times a year
Where do they take shelter?
Head color
celebrated their {n} birthday
When you would have been born if you lived as {name}
very hot all year round, frequent rains, but sometimes dry
Daddies
Lifespan maximum
foraging
whole life
Hermaphrodite ⚥
Strawberry
embryo
Hard, projecting mouthpart used to probe, pluck, or crack food.
warm swampy shores with trees on roots, crabs live there
Length
kg
Observations
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