Places and times seen in Munakata city

In Munakata it is an abandoned bird, and it can be seen throughout the year centered on the waterside of the whole city.

Characteristic

The total length is 21 cm. It is bigger than a sparrow.
The summer wing of the male is brown spots from the forehead, cheeks are white from the head, and the top of the body is black from the top of the head. There is a thing with black over-eye line and there is not. The side neck from the chest is black, the wing is white, and there is a black part in part. The tail is black and the outside is white.
Female summer feathers are grayish in spine. The white part of the forehead is narrower than the male. The beak and legs are black.
Seven different subspecies are recorded in Japan.

Habit

It lives in coast, river, agricultural land and so on. Beyond breeding season, act in one or a small group. While swinging the tail feather up and down, walk mainly on the waterside and farmland, eat insects and spiders etc.
"Chu Chun" and squeaks, "Tuichui" such as saying.

distribution

It is inhabited from Hokkaido to Hokkaido as a resident bird or bird in Hokkaido from the flat land of Kyushu to the mountains coast, estuary, estuary, river, farmland, urban park, people's house, mountain village etc. Previously it was breeding only in Hokkaido, but in recent years the breeding area has expanded to the central part of Honshu, and areas breeding in West Japan are emerging.
In the winter, it goes south and has a roost in river forests, under street trees in urban areas and bridges.
It lives in Eurasia Continent, Northern Africa, Indian Subcontinent, Philippines, Indochina Peninsula.

Other

Seguro Sekirei, Hakusesukirei, two seeds were widely seen in the domestic Seglo Sekirei who was breeding mainly in the northern coast of the Tohoku region. It has come south in the last 100 years. It is thought that Munakata also breeds.
It is said that Kojiki's "Kokoro no Miyuki" comes out as Seguro Sekirei.