Places and times seen in Munakata city

Munakata is a lost bird and it is very rarely seen. It is an individual that stops at the time of migration, and the encounter is rare. There is an observation record on Munakata Okinoshima.

Characteristic

Total length 35 cm. It is somewhat bigger than a squat. Same color of both sexes.
Full body nutrition food, face from face, back neck to waist, white body drop below the bottom of the body has white drop type. The tail from the wing, the shin, and the aft tail is black and has a blue luster. There is a small white spot on the base of the first row wind cut and there are 1 to 3 difference depending on the individual. There is vitiligo at the tip of the tail, and the bottom tube from white to white. The beak is black like a shovel shape, feet are dark brown. The iris is dark.

Habit

Living throughout the year mainly from the subalpine zone to the alpine zone, mainly in the pine wood and coniferous forest zone. In winter, there are individuals descending to low-mountain needle wide mixed forest, but not many.
Other than breeding season, some live in sub-group. Mainly eat seeds of coniferous trees.

distribution

As sea lions or birds, we live in the alpine mixed forest, coniferous forest, pine pine belt of the alpine belt from Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu. It moves to low mountains in winter and sometimes in coastal areas in Hokkaido. At the time of migration, there are records in Sado Niigata Prefecture, Ishikawa Prefecture Kurakurajima, Izu Ooshima and so on.
It is distributed in a wide range excluding the extreme north of the Eurasian continent and the alpine belt.