Places and times seen in Munakata city

In Munakata it is a traveling bird and it is rarely observed in the Munakata Okinoshima, Munakata Oshima, Okinoshima during the Spring migration period (April to May), but the opportunities are very limited It is physical.

Characteristic

It is 14 cm in length and smaller than lark. It is the same color in both sexes.
From the head to the top, from the chest to the side are light brown, with thin vertical patches of blackish brown from the top of the head to the back. Shoulder feathers, rain cover have thick vertical patches of black brown. There are dark brown spots or narrow band-like plaques on the chest side.
When stationary, the three row wind cut covers the tip of the first row wind cut or is slightly short. From the center of abdomen the bottom tube is white. The beak is short and somewhat thick, and the mouth corner reaches under the eye attachment.

Habit

They fly to wastelands and landfills of flatlands, agricultural lands, lawn and so on. There are a lot of records in one or several birds, and there are few things to stick to trees. While walking around the ground eat plant seeds, insects, spiders and so on.
When jumping off, "ju", "jill" and so on.

distribution

There are a lot of records on islands mainly in the Sea of ​​Japan side with few traveling birds.
There are many in the Iberian Peninsula, wintering in the Indus River Basin, the Arabian Peninsula, the Savannah Region in Central Africa, and the southern part of the western part from the Central Eurasian Continent.