Places and times seen in Munakata city

In Munakata it is a winterbird and can be seen from October to April.
It is seen in the waters between Kanazaki and Kaminomato. When there are many hundreds of flocks.

Characteristic

The total length is 55 cm.
The male has a head with a green shiny black color, and there are two rows of crowned feathers in the back. The back is black. There is a white carotid, the chest is brownish brown and black spots. The belly is white, and aside there are finely black wavy plaques. At the time of flight, the first row wind cut, the rain covering is black, the other part is white and two black lines are visible.
Females have brown heads and short crown feathers. The underside of the body below the chest is white, from the side chest to the gray brown side, the raincoat is gray, the next wind cut is white.
Both sexes, beak and iris, feet red, female beaks black.

Habit

We enter the sea near the coast, the inner bay, the harbor, the lake, the river, the pond and so on.
The wintering season does not become a very large flock, it will be a flock of 20 to 30 flights at most from a few.
While swimming, put your face on the water surface and act better under the water. Dive and fish and crustaceans etc supplement.

distribution

Breed breeding in the northern polar region of the northern hemisphere, winter over the Mediterranean northern coast, around the Japanese archipelago, the Yellow Sea coast, the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic coast of the USA.