Places and times seen in Munakata city

In Munakata, it is an abandoned bird, and it can be observed throughout the year in forests, forest margins, agricultural lands, grasslands, riverbeds etc of the mountainous areas throughout the city.

Characteristic

About 17 cm in length. It is bigger than a sparrow.
The males are black from the ophthalmic line, and the connection between the cheeks and the jaw line is black. Eyebrows, cheek line, throat white from thorns, side neck grayish. Body upper side of the back, brown below the chest below the body. Axial spots of raincoat, wind-cut are blackish brown. The waist is uniformly brown brown, the beak is an upper entrance screw blackish brown, the lower beaked gray brown is gray brown, and the foot is orange brown.
Females are crowded from over-optotype, cheeks, jaw lines are connected, and black-brown.

Habit

They live in plain forests, mountainous areas, farmlands, reeds, rivers and so on. Many people live in a few birds except during the breeding season, prefer the open places, not going to the dark places when entering the forest. Eat insects and grass seeds etc.
"Titschitz" and so on and hear a crush and say "Chupin Tutu Chu".

distribution

They live in mountainous areas from flatlands in Hokkaido to Kyushu, Yakushima as stationary birds or birds. It is an abandoned bird or a bird bird in the Japanese archipelago south of Honshu. In Hokkaido it becomes a summer bird. Coastal provinces, Mongolia, Mainland China, Korean Peninsula is a remote bird.

Other

Crying is beautiful, and the stings between April and June are beautiful.
Especially, in the winter, discrimination with Kashirara Daka is a problem.