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Kuroji

Event | Kuroji (black 鵶) | Classification |
Sparrows Affiliation White shell |
Scientific name | Emberiza variabills | English name | Gray Bunting |
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Kuroji (Black 鵶) |
Sparrows Affiliation White shell |
Emberiza variabills | Gray Bunting |
Places and times seen in Munakata city
In Munakata it is a winterbird and from September to around April it can be observed in forest floor of satoyama throughout the city, bamboo bush, shrub bush and so on.
Characteristic
Total length 16, cm. It is slightly bigger than sparrow.
The males are whole black gray, with spines, raincoats, and blackish brown axillary spots in the wind cut.
The female is the head side line, the line surrounding the rhinoceros is dark brown, the upper side of the body is grayish brown, blackish brown colored vertical spots, and the lower side of the body is light yellowish brown with chest from the jaw line and dark brown in the side There are vertical spots. The waist is brown brown. There is a gray color on the chest side.
The beak has a dark brown upper beak, the lower beak and the foot is meat color.
Habit
They fly to the forest floor where Sasa and undergrowth grew on the forest floor of the subalpine belt from the flat ground. Always living in a dimly lit place, sometimes going out to the forest road eat seeds, insects, spiders etc of plants.
In a voice that goes through frequently, he strikes me as "Fitty Choice" and hears "Sud".
distribution
As resident birds or birds, they live from Hokkaido to mountainous areas in central Honshu to forests of the subalpine zone.
It breeds in southern California, southern part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Kuril Islands, northernmost central Honshu, overwintering between sub-region of Chubu and Southwestern Islands.