和名: ウソ, English: Eurasian bullfinch, Español: Camachuelo comun, Binomial name: Pyrrhula pyrrhula (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Order: Passeriformes > Family: Fringillidae > Genus: Pyrrhula > Species: P. pyrrhula
ヨーロッパからアジアの北部にかけて広く分布するウソ, Eurasian bullfinch which breeds across Europe and temperate Asia.
2017年2月26日、水元公園を散歩した。水辺を歩いているとき、近くの桜の木でつぼみをついばんでいるウソに気付いた。
On February 26, 2017, I strolled in Mizumoto Park. When I was walking along the pond, I noticed a Eurasian bullfinch eating buds of a nearby cherry tree.
ウソはつぼみをついばみ、中の柔らかい部分を取り出して食べ、つぼみの硬い部分を捨てた。 このウソは、腹部全体が灰色っぽい薄い桃色であり、頬と喉の部分も同じ色なのでメスだろう。
The bullfinch picked the bud, took out the soft part of it, ate it and threw away the hard part of the bud. This bullfinch will be female because the whole abdomen is grayish faint peach color and the cheek and throat are the same color.
桜の蕾を食べるので、桜の名所では嫌われるようだが、どの程度の被害があるのだろう？
As bullfinches eat cherry buds, they seem to be disliked at cherry blossom sites, but how much damage do they give?
Wikipedia: The bullfinch, common bullfinch or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae… This bird breeds across Europe and temperate Asia… The food is mainly seeds and buds of fruit trees, which can make it a pest in orchards.
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