Places and times seen in Munakata city

In Munakata it is an abandoned bird. You can see throughout the city throughout the year.

Characteristic

Total length 35 cm. There are many variations in feather colors, but those closer to the original species are blue gray as a whole and green and purple luster on the cervical side. The upper and lower surfaces of the body are gray, there are black gray plaques in the large / medium rain covering, and it looks like two black belts. The waist is white and the tip of the tail is black gray. The iris has many colors from orange to red. Feet are red.

Habit

They live in coastal areas, urban areas, producing areas, and rarely enter the forest. Living in herds, getting food from humans, eating grass seeds and tree nuts.

distribution

As resident birds inhabit the plains in plain areas throughout Japan, urban areas, parks, rivers, shrines and temples. Originally poultry produced based on the temperate Kirarabat distributed from the northern part of Africa to the Middle East, Central Asia, western part of China rewarmed again.

Other

It seems that an individual transformed as a pigeon pigeon was imported from the Nara period. Also in Fujiwara's Famiya's "Meigetsuki" is a story about the pigeon race held on September 28, 2012 (1208). In the Edo period I can see an article saying that I used a pigeon to find out the rice market.