Places and times seen in Munakata city

Winter bird at Munakata. It can be observed from October to March.
You can see it in an urban reservoir pond, a dam lake and so on. When there are many, it will be dozens.
Often you are in a place like Kinkokojijiro.

Characteristic

Total length 45 cm.
Male is head to neck reddish brown, chest and waist, and upper and lower transition piece is black. Bottom of the body from the upper side and belly, side by gray, with fine striped pattern of black brown. The beak is blue gray and the tip and the base are black. The iris is red.
Females are from the head to the back neck, the chest is brown, and the throat is light brown. Others are grayish brown, the waist and the upper and lower transition piece are strong brown. The beak is black and less gray than the male. The iris is dark brown and has a white eye ring.
Both males and females become lung white.

Habit

It lives in rivers, ponds, paddy fields, lakes, inland bays, harbors, and the like. From the rest area to the feeding ground in the evening, in addition to stems and roots, seeds of aquatic plants, and other animals such as crustaceans such as crustaceans are eaten.

distribution

It breeds in the northern part of the Eurasian Continent and overwinter in Europe, northern Africa, the Middle East, India, East Asia. In Japan, it fly to the whole country as a winterbird.

Other

Duck ducks have a type of diving in water (diving feeding duck) and a type not falling under water (water surface feeding duck). Types that can be seen in Munakata, and representative types of water dive are Kinkochisachiro and Hoshihaziro.