Hoopoe (ヤツガシラ）
少し前に、都内の公園に来ていたヤツガシラ。珍鳥の追っかけを趣味にはしたくない、と思うのだけれど、情報をもらうとつい見に行ってみたくなってしまう。
Hoopoe was my 250th "Lifer bird" in Japan; a "new bird" for me. Bird watchers love to compile a life list, which is a list of all the birds species they saw in their lifetime. Someone told me that a person with more than 300 Japanese bird's life list is a real crazy birder.
I don't want to chase very uncommon visitors to Tokyo just to add one more to my list. I'd rather visit their nomal habitat myself. That's what I'm usually thinking...but actually, I went to a park in Tokyo to see this Hoopoe right after I got the information!
It seems that this life list habit is unique to birders when I look around other naturalists. I've met no botanist nor animal watchers talking about their life list. Maybe birds are just about good number of species to count life list, not too few like mammals, not too many like plants or insects.
頭をふわーっと広げたバージョンが、みたいなぁ…なんてね
ReplyDeleteヒヨ吉さま、
ReplyDelete絶対に誰かに言われるなぁ、と思いながら作ってはいたのですが・・・。
No!
ReplyDeleteMore than 400 is truly a real crazy birder!!
More than 10 years ago, when I watched the Hoopoe in the Miyake island, the bird raised its crest for an instant as soon as perched.
Tingちゃんが描くと、ヤツガシラが更にかわゆくなりますね♪
ReplyDelete冠羽、ぶわぁ～にはドキドキしましたぁ^o^
Dear Sanderling_2005,
ReplyDeleteO.K. People with more than 300 life list are the serious birders and more than 400 are the crazy birders.
For me, more than 300 records already sounds crazy though...
まみさん、
母がいま読んでいる本いわく、
書かないことにも意味があるそうな。冠が閉じたヤツガシラの絵から、開くところを期待、想像して楽しんでください☆ということにしましょう！ ははは。
ヤツガシラ！
ReplyDeleteわたしも最近見たばっかりです。
ネタをちょっと拝借しちゃいました～
ぴぷさま、
ReplyDelete「最近みた」といっても、ぴぷ氏との話だと、お国も、見る形式も違うのだからなんだか不思議だ～
動物園屋さんも、ライフリストとか作るの？
ブログの宣伝ありがとう☆