リュウキュウコノハズク、アオバズク、アカショウビン、サンコウチョウ(動画あり)
リュウキュウコノハズク、リュウキュウアオバズク、リュウキュウアカショウビン、リュウキュウサンコウチョウの琉球組の繁殖は順調に推移しています。今季の石垣島は気温が上がらず、昆虫たちの動きが活発でないので子育てに影響が出ないかが心配です。
I found a Ryukyu Scops Owl sitting motionless in the forest in the rain. A Brown Hawk-Owl was incubating right nearby. I wonder if there's no conflict between them.
A Ruddy Kingfisher appeared in the sugarcane field. After catching prey it didn't eat on the spot — it carried it off. The chicks may have hatched.
A Ryukyu Scops Owl incubating just a stone's throw from my house. This is the male on watch. This makes three consecutive breeding seasons here.
A Brown Hawk-Owl also incubating. This is the male on guard duty. It raises its young in the same tree hollow every year.
A Japanese Paradise Flycatcher with its nest built on a Thespesia populnea branch. On Ishigaki Island they also nest in Macaranga tanarius, Rhizophora stylosa, Barringtonia racemosa, and various vines, in addition to Thespesia populnea.