Places and times seen in Munakata city

In Munakata, it is a traveling bird that can be seen rarely. It is recorded almost in the whole country, but it is local, and there are many observation records of spring mainly on islands on the side of the Sea of Japan. In Munakata there are records observed on the Island.

Characteristic

Total length 26 cm. They are almost same color in both sexes.
Adult birds are full of vibrant yellow, with the overcap line to the back neck dark, the males wide and the females narrow. Wind cutting and tail feathers black, the feathers of the wind cutting and the outside of the tail feather are yellow.
The beak is pinkish red and the iris is red. The feet are blue gray.

Habit

Flying from the flat land to the dark forests and forests of the mountains. There are a lot of records with a single bird, and while traveling through the dark forests, I prefer to eat insects, especially larvae of caterpillars.

distribution

Breed in Primorsky, Amur River Basin, China, and bird overwind or overwinter in Taiwan, Indochina Peninsula, Philippines, Malay Peninsula, Indonesia, Borneo Tang. It is about to fly to Japan rarely.

Other

Although it may be mistaken for the origin of the name of "Major League Baltimore Orioles", it is a completely different bird from Oriol of Major League. By the way, "Baltimore Mukudori Modoki" is the origin of Orioles' name.