Places and times seen in Munakata city

In Munakata it is an abandoned bird, and it can be observed normally throughout the city throughout the year.

Characteristic

It is about 28 cm in length and it also serves as a standard for comparing the size of birds. It is smaller than the pheasant butterfly, same sex.
Adult birds are whole-gray brown in color, with grayish-brown axillary spots particularly prominent on the head. The posterior neck from the forehead is sharp. Wing, tail is dark gray brown and tail is slightly longer. Below the center of the abdomen there is grayish brown spots, feathers of the caudal tube are grayish white and become scaly and conspicuous.
The beak is dark brown, the feet are dark reddish brown, and the iris is brown.
"Piyapya", "Pyoyo Pyo" and so on with loud noises.

Habit

Still birds or birds. It lives in flatlands - mountain forests in mountainous areas, urban areas and in Kokawa. Besides breeding season, live in a group. During the spring and autumn migration period, they fly over the forest and over the sea with large clusters with clear wave-like flight.
We eat anything including plants of all kinds, flowers and buds such as Kobushi and Rubai, insects, chicks of birds. Sometimes I eat cherry blossoms and Mitsu.

distribution

Almost, it inhabits limitedly in all over Japan and the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. It is known that there are many subspecies. As you go to the south, there is a tendency that the color of Hagoromo will become deep.

Other

In the Kanmon Strait, the "migration of brown earedbirds" is famous, and it is possible to observe how thousands of bulbous items traveling across the strait in the time of migration. Aiming at that group, birds of prey such as falcons may attack.
The migratory bulbs are just about "birds, clouds".