Places and times seen in Munakata city

In Munakata it is an abandoned bird, it can be seen throughout the year, in the vicinity of satoyama, agricultural lands, parks in urban areas with many trees, residential areas and so on.

Characteristic

Total length 15 cm to 16 cm. It is the same as a sparrow or a big one.
The males are dark in their face, yellowish green brown on their heads, the upper surface under the back, the lower surface below the chest is slightly darker olive brown. The wings and tails are dark brown, the wind cut base and the tail base are yellow. The feather edges of three rows of wind cuts are grayish white.
Females have their heads serving under the table. The tail becomes a concave tail.

Habit

It lives in flatlands and forests of mountainous areas, farmlands, rivers and trees with relatively many trees, and planting in residential areas. Subspecies Okawarahiwa is passed as a winterbird. Beyond the breeding season, act in a herd and eat seeds of trees on the trees and on the ground.
"Kirikiri Korokorobi bean" etc and strike, "squeaks cool" and sounding.

distribution

Breed in Kalafut, Kamchatka Peninsula, Chishima Archipelago, Hokkaido, become suburban or bird birds in the Honshu sub-northern Japan archipelago, the northeastern China, the Korean Peninsula, mainland China and so on.