Places and times seen in Munakata city

In Munakata, it is an abandoned bird or a bird. It lives in a relatively deep forest of Satoyama. It is a cowardly bird and lives in a deep satoyama, so few opportunities to see it. Although it is seen to come to drink seawater as a flock from summer to autumn, in Munakata it hardly sees that figure.

Characteristic

Total length 33 cm.
Male is yellowish green from head to throat, chest, green gray from back cervix to back, waist, tail, reddish purple in small / middle rash, green gray in heavy rain covering. The wind break is pale yellowish white on the underside of the body from the gray-black color, and there is a dark greenish brown axis spot from the side of the buttocks to the bottom tube. The longest tail tube is long enough to cover the vicinity of the tip of the tail.
Females resemble males, but from the head, chest, dorsy are darker greenish brown, poor yellowish. The rain covering is also greenish brown and there is no tendency of reddish purple.
The beak is cobalt blue and the tip becomes somewhat faint. The iris is blue inside and reddish purple on the outside and it is doubled.

Habit

It lives in the mountain forest from the coast and drinks seawater from the coast on May to October and drinks hot spring water containing salt and drainage from the soy sauce plant. It is rare to take salinity in other seasons. We eat acorns such as quercus in the wintering season, and eat cherry tree fruits and buds and dependents during breeding season. In the breeding season "OOOOAOO" crowns.

distribution

As the English name suggests, it inhabits the Japanese archipelago and the South China Sea coast. It is a summer bird in Hokkaido.

Other

"I hear voices frequently, but I can not see it" is a type of bird.