A daily journal.
Mainly introducing wild birds of Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, through photos.

石垣島のアカショウビンまだ見られます

雨上がり、リュウキュウアカショウビンを求めて林道へと牧場へ。

林道ではペアの2羽。牧場では1羽確認できました。雨が降るとアカショウビンたちの活性が上がり探しやすいです。

アカショウビンのカップルは、子育てを終えても同じ縄張りで渡るまで過ごします。

Ruddy Kingfisher

Ruddy Kingfisher on the forest road. Moult and fading are well advanced.

Ruddy Kingfisher

Ruddy Kingfishers don't call as much as they do at the peak of the breeding season, but this individual was singing occasionally.

Ruddy Kingfisher

It caught a grasshopper. A Taiwanese cricket, perhaps?

Ruddy Kingfisher

Ruddy Kingfisher at the pasture. This one never sang — it gave alarm calls from time to time.

Categories: 野鳥