Places and times seen in Munakata city

Munakata is a lost bird, rarely observed in Satoyama and its surroundings, but its opportunities are limited.

Characteristic

Total length 14 cm. They are almost same color in both sexes.
Blue gray from the head to the top, there is a black overpass line. The lower surface of the body from the cheek is white, and the side and the lower tail are reddish brown. Male is deeper in color of armpit and bottom tail than female.
There is vitiligo in the outer butterfly, the beak is warped slightly above black and the base of the lower beak is leaded. Feet red-black.

Habit

I prefer to live in deciduous broad leaved forests from mountainous land to flat land. There is a case where one wing or pair is used and acts by entering the flock of the titsmith family in the winter. Turn down the head downwards, turn down the tree trunk, eat insects and spiders.
In a voice that often passes "Phi Fiffie", he squeals with "Chi", "Twittwit" and so on.

distribution

Inhabiting in a deciduous broad-leaved forest of sub-alpine from low mountains north of Kyushu. In Hokkaido, I also live on flat grounds.
It is distributed in the Japanese archipelago, China, the Korean Peninsula, the Eurasian Continent from the Kamchatka Peninsula to Spain (excluding extreme North and alpine zones).

Other

The action of lowering the trunk of the tree with his head down, can not be seen by other birds.
Kazuki Kobayashi replied "Difficulty and which one is a four-spoken fifty-sparrow", but the discrimination is relatively easy.