Places and times seen in Munakata city

In Munakata it is a winterbird and can be observed throughout the city from around October to around April. There are many to see in satoyama and valley paddy fields.

Characteristic

Total length 14 cm to 15 cm, slightly smaller than sparrow. It is the same color in both sexes.
From the forehead, the top of the body is greenish brown with blackish brown vertical spots. Black brown seems to border the upper edge of light brown eyebrows. Ear wings have light brown small plaques, and there are even smaller black spots beside them. The first row wind cut projects from three row wind cuts. The lower part of the body is light brown with blackish brown vertical spots. The beak is blackish brown, the lower beak is light brown, the leg is meat color, and the nail is light brown.

Habit

They live in open environments such as grasslands from the flatlands to alpine zones, bright forests, conifer forest belts, needle / hardwood mixed forests, deciduous broadleaved forests and others. Living in a small group other than the breeding season, walking while swinging the tail feather up and down mainly on the ground of pine grove and broadleaf forest, eat insects and spiders etc.

distribution

As a bird or summer bird inhabits the alpine belt from the plain of Shikoku from Hokkaido. The population inhabiting the north moves to the warm area in the winter. Therefore it is often winter birds in western Japan. Munakata is also so.
Worldwide, it breeds in Siberia, China, the Japanese archipelago, etc. and overwinter in Indochina Peninsula, Philippines, Ganges river basin.