Places and times seen in Munakata city

In Munakata it is a winterbird, from around October to around April, it can be observed normally in satoyama and its surroundings, farmland and so on. Often you are in a place like a white-bell, so you have to make sure you do not mistake it as a white-bell.

Characteristic

Total length 15 cm. It is about the size of sparrow. I have a short crown feather.
The summer wing of the male is headed from the forehead, the cheeks are black from the eyes, and the center of the occipital head is white. Bottom of the eye from the eyebrows, white, white. The posterior neck, waist has a chestnut-brown vertical spot. Back, wing front is grayish brown with blackish brown spots.
Female summer feathers resemble male winter feathers, but axilles of the top of the head are brownish, feathers are light brown, head side lines, lines surrounding the cheeks, jaw lines are dark brown, and feathers are light brown.
Male winter feathers (many opportunities to be observed in Munakata) are blackish in axis spots and light brown in feather edges.
The beak is blackish brown, the down beak is meat color, and the foot is orange brown.

Habit

It often flew from flatlands to unripe forests and forest edges, grasslands with shrubs, agricultural lands, etc, and live in flocks. Predate grass seeds, spiders etc in the grassland etc at the edge of the forest.
"Chit" and so it roars and complicated.

distribution

In winter birds in Japan, it is recorded almost in the whole country. Overwintering in the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea coastal area, around Fujian Province, breeding in the northeastern China, Primorsky province, etc, there are also flocks that become abandoned on the peninsula by Sichuan Province, China.

Other

Especially for females, it is necessary to distinguish from Miyama Hiroshiro.