Places and times seen in Munakata city

In Munakata it is an abandoned bird, it can be observed throughout the year in agricultural lands and urban areas throughout the city.

Characteristic

Total length 24 cm. It is smaller than the pheasant butter. They are almost same color in both sexes.
The males tend to have a clear blackish brown color from their heads and blackish tendencies than females, especially with dark gray aside and contrast with brown and chest brown. From the forehead white is white, blackish brown vertically spotted. There are individual differences, and the patterns are various. Body upper face below the back, body below the chest gray brown with waist, from bottom to bottom tail tube white. The tail is somewhat short, and there is vitiligo in the inner valve of the tail tip. The beak and leg are yellowish brown, and the tip of the beak is l black. In the summer wing, the base of the Shimousegu becomes bluish strong. The iris is dark brown.
Females are more brownish in head than male.

Habit

It inhabits from flatlands in urban areas of mountainous areas, agricultural lands, turf, river, orchard. While acting in a group throughout the year, while walking in places with low plant height, in addition to insects and earthworms, arthropods etc, also eat tree nuts well.
"Kyurukyuru", "Gurrugiru", "Zitchechett" and sounding.

distribution

It is a resident bird or a bird bird, and it is a winter bird in the Nansei Islands, which is observed throughout the country.
It is distributed in the Japanese archipelago, the Chishima archipelago, the southern part of Karafuto, Amur river basin, Primorsky region, northeastern China, Korea peninsula, Mainland China.

Other

Originally living in flatland forests and agricultural lands, some birds living in urban areas, but as urbanization progressed it became more common in warm and safe years. Since it forms a roost in a large group, the noise and indignation due to cry are reported in various parts of the country, such as when making a roost in a street tree in an urban area. Many people gather in winter.