L=11.5cm
Japanese White-eye (Adult)
Japanese White-eye (Eye-ring)
Japanese White-eye (With Persimmon)
| No.485 | Japanese White-eye | Zosterops japonicus | L=11.5cm |
Rank : 1 |
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| One of themost popular birds in Japan; common resident in wooded lowland hills; alsoparks and gardens in winter. Bright olive-green above, which we call“uguisu” (Japanese Bush-Warbler)-colour, although actual “uguisu”s plumageis somber olive-brown; white eye-ring, to which its name owe. In thebreeding season, Male sings fast in the treetops or on electric wires. Thereare some kinds of onomatopoeia of the bird’s song replaced with meaningfulJapanese words. The following will be the most polular one: “Chobei,Chubei, Cho-Chubei” (Two of the three words are our first names in oldentimes). Call is a bell-like chwee or tzee. | ||||
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Japanese White-eye (Adult) |
Japanese White-eye (Eye-ring) |
Japanese White-eye (With Persimmon) |
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