Blue Rock Thrush、イソヒヨドリ

Given the Japanese names of Isohiyodori( Blue Rock Thrush in English), and Hiyodori(Bulbul in English), it would be quite natural for any Japanese person who does not know about this wild bird to think that it is a similar wild bird.

For a long time, I thought that these two species were the same kind of wild bird family.

This time after a closer check when uploading, I found that the two species are completely different species.

Oh my got！

Blue Rock Thrush, in Japan, the coastal areas such as rocky shores and harbors used to be the main habitat, but breeding has been confirmed in inland local cities since around 1980, and the number has increased further in the 2000s. （Cited reference from Wikipedia）

Blue Rock Thrush, you can observe a lot anywhere in Okinawa prefecture, and I have already been posted it on this blog.

It has been confirmed already around my resident area, I had taken some shots from 2011 to 2013. The other day, I found a male blue rock thrush that I took the same place where one was before.I don't know whether if it is the same bird.

                                       a female, Nov. 2013

                                       a male, March.2010

                                                   a male, Dec. 2011 

 

Pied Avocet,ソリハシセイタカシギ

Pied Avocet, as known as one of the few migratory and winter birds in Japan has come fly to an after-harvest lotus paddy field in Inashiki city in Ibaragi prefecture. As it is very rare to watch here, so many wild bird photographers were shooting.

 

Mandarin duck、オシドリ

The other day I visited a famous museum garden that has a large pond which is mandarin ducks having rest in the pond under the autumn leaves. The museum is located away from 41 km from my house in Chiba prefecture. 

The species was once widespread in East Asia, but large-scale exports and the destruction of its forest habitat have reduced populations in eastern Russia and China to below 1,000 pairs in each country; Japan, however, is thought to still hold some 5,000 pairs. The Asian populations are migratory, overwintering in lowland eastern China and southern Japan.（Cited reference :Wikipedia）

According to my observation, it is obvious that the number of migrating birds that come here from the north area is getting down every year.I don't know the reasons why, but one reason may be will climate-changing such as high temperature, rainfall here, especially in this year.