Places and times seen in Munakata city

Munakata is a lost bird, it is observed very rarely. There are some observations in Munakata Oshima.

Characteristic

Length of about 15 cm.
Male is from parietal to tall with light gray brown, face to cheek, wings black, eyes above whitish. From the waist to the top tube, from the abdomen to the caudate cylinder white, the chest is a pale buff color. 2/3 of the tail is black, and the base is of each color.
Female is grayish brown from forehead, brownish ear wing and slightly reddish. Ambiguous light brown eyebrows are located only in the posterior direction. The feathers of the raincoat and the wind-cut are light brown, and the raindrop is blackish brown.
Beaks, feet are black.

Habit

Fly to dry desert land, bare ground, grassland, agricultural land etc. of the plain, eat insects and spiders, and move the waist up and down by opening and closing the tail feathers on the soil clumps, piles and shrubs.
"Squeak".

distribution

It is a lost bird, and there are local records in the south of Honshu, but many are on the small island on the side of the Japan Sea. There are records in Hijima in Yamagata Prefecture, Kurakurajima in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Isamujima in Yamaguchi prefecture, Shikoku, Kyushu, Ogasawara Islands, Amami Islands, Okinawa main island, Yonagunijima.
Tibet, Mongolia etc. breeding and winter over the Indus River Basin, Arabian Peninsula, Central Africa, Morocco.