Limicola falcinellus; broad-billed sandpiper

Japanese: キリアイ(英語表記)Limicola falcinellus; broad-billed sandpiper
Limicola falcinellus; broad-billed sandpiper
Charadriiformes, Scolopacidae. Total length 15-18cm. In summer plumage (→ plumage), the head is white with black median and lateral lines, and a reddish-brown stripe above the eyes. The throat, chest, and flanks are white with black spots. The back and coverts have a black center and white or chestnut edges, giving them a scaly pattern. The belly is white. The beak is black with a slightly downward-curving tip. The legs are also black. The tail is gray-brown, and the rump is gray-brown in the middle and white at the flanks. In winter plumage, the back is gray to gray-brown, the ventral surface is white, but the neck and chest have pale gray-brown stripes. It breeds in the Scandinavian Peninsula, the Ob and Yenisei river basins in the central Russian Arctic, and the Kolyma River basin in the east. After breeding, they spend the winter in the central part of East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan, southeastern India, Bangladesh, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia and the coastal areas of Australia. They come to Japan during the spring and autumn migration and can be seen on tidal flats and riverbanks, but their numbers are not so large. (→ Wading birds)

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Japanese:
チドリ目シギ科。全長 15~18cm。夏羽(→羽衣)では頭部は白い中に黒い頭央線と頭側線,赤色がかった褐色の過眼線が縞模様になる。喉から胸,脇は白地に黒斑がある。背と雨覆羽は各羽の中央部が黒く,縁が白色か栗色で,うろこ模様になる。腹は白い。嘴は黒く,先がわずかに下に湾曲する。脚も黒い。尾は灰褐色で,腰は中央が灰褐色で脇が白い。冬羽は背面が灰色から灰褐色になり,腹面は白いが,頸側,胸に淡い灰褐色の縞模様がある。スカンジナビア半島,ロシア北極圏中央部のオビ川とエニセイ川流域,東部のコルイマ川流域で繁殖する。繁殖後は東アフリカ中央部,アラビア半島,パキスタン,インド南東部,バングラデシュからタイワン(台湾),フィリピン,インドネシアからオーストラリアの沿岸地方に渡って越冬する。日本には,春秋の渡りの時期に渡来し,干潟や河原などに見られるが,数はそれほど多くない。(→渉禽類)

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