Places and times seen in Munakata city

In Munakata, it is a drifting bird or a resident bird. It can be observed all year round in farmland and forest edges throughout the city. There are many observation opportunities from March to April.

Characteristic

Total length 16cm. The sex is almost the same color.
The male has blue-gray and dark brown spots from the top of the head to the back and lateral neck. The cheeks are reddish brown, with dark brown spots from the jawline to the chest. The underside of the body below the heel is white and has brownish brown spots on the belly, and the upper side of the body below the back is brown and blackish brown. The heel is gray-black and the lower heel and legs are flesh-colored.
In females, the gray color from the top of the head to the back neck is slightly pale. The brownish brown spots are a little thin.

Habit

Living on plains and mountainous grasslands, rivers, farmland and reclaimed land. Outside the breeding season, they live in small groups, prefer grassland with low height, and eat grass seeds, insects, and spiders.
The ground squeal is “tick”, and the squeal is “tick”.

distribution

It is distributed from Hokkaido to Kyushu as a resident or drifting bird. It is a summer bird in Hokkaido and Tohoku, and overwinters in agricultural land in western Japan from the Pacific coast of central Honshu.
It is a summer bird in Primorye, northeastern China, and the Korean peninsula.