Places and times seen in Munakata city

In Munakata it is a traveling bird, and I can hardly see it. Individuals flying as summer birds to Japan will pass through Munakata and temporarily stay. In the period from late April to early May, around September.

Characteristic

Total length 27 cm. It is a large kingfisher. Male and female are same color but male has slightly dark feather color.
The top is reddish brown and has a shiny red purple color. Thigh and throat are light brown, and the rest of the body is orange brown. There is a vertical line of cobalt blue in the center of the waist and it stands out when flying. The beak and legs are red. There are no other similar birds and there is no mistake in seeing.
In the breeding season "Kyoororororo" resonates in a loud voice that resonates well.

Habit

It flew from plains to forests of forests, mountain streams, lakes and ponds. They often live with a pair of territories, and act in dark forests in many cases.
Eat a variety of small animals, but many insects, crabs, lizards and so on. Big prey knocks on branches and crushes bones to eat.

distribution

Breed breeding as a summer bird almost throughout the country.
Even in the world, the breeding grounds are isolated birds around the Japanese archipelago, the Nansei Islands, the Korean Peninsula, and Bangladesh, around the Ganges River Basin, Indochina Peninsula, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra Island, Java Island, Borneo Island, Celebes Island There. Overwintering in the Philippines.

Other

There is a subspecies called Ryukyu acarshoubin in the Nansei Islands. In the vicinity of Munakata, you can listen to the voice and observe the appearance in Aso, Kokonoe, Hikayama etc.