Places and times seen in Munakata city

Munakata has a chance to see it as a traveling bird during the spring and autumn migration period. If anything, it is often seen during the autumn migration period. The period is from September to early October.
In the autumn, you can see from the direction of Kitakyushu, seeing turning in the sky above the paddy field in search of rising airflow. In the evening we also see the entrance into the mountainous areas such as Yotsuyama Mountain and Kiyotsuyama and seeing that they rush at the time of rising airflow the next day.

Characteristic

The total length is about 57 cm for males and about 61 cm for females, which is as large as Tobi. The sexes are almost the same color, but the patterns of the wings are various and individual differences are large.
Regardless of males and females, the top of the body is usually black brown or brown. The feather color of the lower part of the body and the lower rain cover has a white light type to black brown dark type. Furthermore, there are some intermediate types of them, whitish with no spots. The tail is long and it is a circular tail.
Male adult birds have two thick black bands at the tip of the wind. Face is grayish, iris is dark and some individuals are reddish.
Female adults have 2 to 3 dark brown bands narrower than males in the tail. The iris is yellow, the width of the wing at the time of flight is wide, and the head and neck appear to protrude more than other hawks.

Habit

They live in flatland and mountainous forests, and nesting is done in the same place every year.
We eat insects, amphibians, reptiles, and often predispose black bears on the second half of breeding season. Even if it is attacked by a bee, it is said that the beak can be supplemented because the cladding is hard and the needle does not pass.
In recent years, the route of migration gradually became known.
Looking at the northern part of Kyushu, spring arrives in Kyushu via Indonesia and Indochina Peninsula, Mainland China, Korea Peninsula, and crosses from Kanmon Strait to Honshu. Autumn has crossed Kyushu from the Kanmon Strait and reached Taiwan via the Nansei Islands, leading to the Indochinese Peninsula and Indonesia.

distribution

In the summer, breeding in the Japanese archipelago (more in the Chubu Region than northern Kyushu), Primorsky region etc. in the north of Kyushu, and spending in the Indian subcontinent, Indochina Peninsula, Indonesia etc in the winter. Some individuals breed in Indian subcontinent, Indochina peninsula, Indonesia, etc. without crossing.

Other

When it comes to the season of migration, we often see how photographers gather to observe the migration at Fuwashiyama in Kitakyushu City, Mt. Uchikurayama, Oil Mountain Observation Deck in Fukuoka City and so on.