It breeds in the eastern part of Eurasian Continent and Australia. The subspecific name Orientalis means "oriental", and only this species is distributed in the Coraciidae.
It migrates to Japan as a summer bird, breeding in Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, and migrates to Southeast Asia in winter.
It is distributed from the plains to the mountains in the habitat and inhabits the forest near the waterfront. Although it uses a tree hollow as a nest, the drainage ditch etc. which are provided in a wooden electric utility pole or a dam. Its feeding habit is eating insects etc in animal food.
Due to the decrease in the number of tree hollows required for breeding, stopover spots and populations have declined nationally, and are designated as endangered species in the Red Data Book of the Ministry of the Environment. In recent years, there have been increasing breeding with artificial nest boxes.
The images installed here, the other day, was taken in Tenryu-mura, Nagano prefecture, where is a well-known spot for this bird and is introduced its website.
The Japanese name of Oriental dollarbird is "Bupposo" but it is somewhat strange. If you search on Google, that means two hits. One is Buddhism, Buddha and Law (= teaching of Buddha) and monk (= one who considers the teachings of Buddha), this is called Sambo. Another one is a bird of the roller family.
In other words, the origin of this wild bird name comes from the three Jewels of the Buddhist world.
When expressing this "Three Jewels" expression in Roman letters, it is bu (Buddha), ppo (Law), so (Monk), "bupposo". And the birdcall that sounds bupposo became the origin of that name.
However, in fact, this bird's bird-calling sound quite differences from real bupposo’s bird-calling, and it turns out to be a scops owl, but the name of bupposo remains unchanged.（Quote from Wikipedia)
ユーラシア大陸東部とオーストラリアで繁殖する。種小名orientalisは「東洋の」の意でブッポウソウ科では本種のみ分布する。日本には夏鳥として飛来し、本州、四国、九州で繁殖し、冬は東南アジアに渡る。生息域内では平地から山地まで分布し、水辺に近い森林に生息する。樹洞を巣にするが、木製の電柱やダムに設けられた排水溝等を巣として利用することもある。食性は動物食で昆虫類等を食べる。(ウイキペデアから引用）
繁殖に必要な木の穴が少なくなったせいか、飛来地や個体数は全国的に減少しており、環境省のレッドデータブックでは絶滅危惧種に指定されている。近年は巣箱や人工物で繁殖するものが多くなってきいる。
Oriental dollarbirdの日本名は“ブッポウソウ”と言うが何か奇妙である。Googleで検索すると、その意味が二つﾋｯﾄする。
一つは、仏教で重んずる、仏と法（＝仏の教え）と僧（＝仏の教えを奉ずる者）、これを三宝と言う。
もう一つは、ぶっぽうそう科の鳥。
つまり、この野鳥名の由来は仏教界の三宝から来ている。
この“三宝”の表現をロ―マ字表記すると、bu(Buddha),ppo(Law),so(Monk),”bupposo”となる。
そして、bupposoと聞こえるbirdcallがその名の由来となった。
しかし、実際には、この鳥の鳴き声は、実際の bupposo のバードコールとはかなり違い、それはコノハズクであることが判明したが、bupposo の名前は変わらないままです。
Do not approach the Oriental dollarbirds!
Please do not go in the rightward from this signboard when you observe and shoot.⇊
An artificial nest box hung on the crescent of a truss bridge⇊
An artificial nest box installed on the building roof of theTenryu village office⇊
A live view screen in a accommodation
A view of the center of Tenryu mura, Nagano Prefecture
Ksitigarbhas
of a temple close to the Tenryu (mura)village office
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