Places and times seen in Munakata city

In Munakata it is a waterfowl, you can see all the year. It can be seen everywhere in the city such as islands, coasts, rivers, dam lakes, reservoirs, satoyama, rice fields.

Characteristic

The full length males are about 59 cm and the females are about 69 cm. Same sex
Adult birds are brown brown all and have light brown spots. There is vitiligo on the base of the first row wind cut of the lower surface of the wing. The tail is a square shape when folded. When it spreads, the end of the tail becomes straight and looks like a bee.
The young bird is more blackish brown, especially the periphery of the eye is black. Vertical mottles on the underside of the body are also light brown and more visible.

Habit

They are resident birds or birds and live in various environments from coast to alpine. Be active in herds except breeding season. Escape from a certain rooster early in the morning and go to the feeding place, eat anything from dead from insects, earthworms, frogs, leftovers left by human beings.
It is distinctive appearance that it rides on the rising air current while swinging "Pyhyororo" and turning over the sky.

distribution

It is distributed throughout the country, except that it is a rare winter bird in the Nansei Islands in Japan. Even around the world, except for the Americas of the Americas, it lives almost entirely.

Other

It belongs to the bigger one among the birds of prey which are usually found in Japan.