Maya (bird)

• Lonchura malacca
  , with which it is still often confused. Also sometimes referred to as mayang bungol (deaf maya), or mayang bukid (ricefield maya).
• Lonchura leucogastra – locally referred to as mayang bato^{[what language is this?]} ("rock maya")^[3]
• Lonchura punctulata – locally referred to mayang paking^{[what language is this?]} (which is another variation of "deaf maya")^[4]
• Padda oryzivora – locally referred to mayang costa^{[what language is this?]} ("coast maya")^[3][5]
• Passer montanus – the Eurasian tree sparrow, introduced from Europe and locally referred to as mayang simbahan^{[what language is this?]} ("church maya")^[3]
• Passer montanus
  due to the imprecise naming.

However, due to the forces of globalization and urbanization, Filipinos are becoming increasingly less familiar with the identity of even species around them. As a result, these categories of maya are becoming less and less well known, and the use of the catch-all name "maya" has result in species being confused for one another, despite readily observable morphological differences.[1]

In urban areas in particular, where the Eurasian tree sparrow has become predominant as an invasive species, "maya" is often mistakenly thought to be the name of this single species – even if it was not even originally native to the Philippines.^[1]

The Philippine oriole (

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