Places and times seen in Munakata city

In Munakata it is an abandoned bird. Although it can be seen throughout the city throughout the year, its number is small compared to the cabbage glass.

Characteristic

Total length 57 cm. It is bigger than a cabbage glass. It is the same color in both sexes.
It is entirely black and has bluish violet. The beak and legs are black, bold and large and curved. The iris is dark. Often it makes the forehead feathers round and round. Young birds are especially windy, brown on the tail. The mouth is red. The iris is dark gray and the mouth corner is red. Inflate your head when squealing, and you will be in a forward tilted posture. Lower the tail.

Habit

It lives widely from coast to alpine belt. Having a certain roost, dispersing it in the garden early in the morning, return to dusk. On the ground we do both hopping and walking. I am omnivorous and eat anything. Sometimes you hit small animals to eat.
I also live in the center of large cities, etc, and they rash food waste thrown away by humans.

distribution

Distilled birds or birds are distributed throughout the country except the Ogasawara Islands. It is distributed as a waterbird in part of the center of Karafuto, Primorsky to the Korean Peninsula, China, Indochina Peninsula, Malaya Peninsula, Indonesia, Philippines, Borneo.

Other

It was originally a bird living in the tropical to subtropical Asian jungle, but in Japan it was established as a city bird. Cities are rich in food and few competing competitors. It gets rid of rubbish and it is removed as a bird.