和名: モズ, English: Bull-headed shrike, Binomial name: Lanius bucephalus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845)
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Order: Passeriformes > Family: Laniidae > Genus: Lanius > Species: L. bucephalus
モズがゲジを捕まえた, A Bull-headed shrike has caught a house centipede.
2017年3月3日、水元公園を散歩した。カワセミの池岸辺にモズが舞い降りた。獲物を見つけたらしい。 モズは落ち葉の積もった地面を見つめた後、すぐに獲物をつまみ上げた。
On March 3, 2017, I strolled in Mizumoto Park. A Bull-headed shrike has flew down on the bank of the “Kingfisher’s Pond”. It seems to have found a prey. After staring at the ground where fallen leaves were piled, the shrike picked up the prey immediately.
モズが捕まえた獲物は沢山の長い足が見えるのでゲジのようだ。モズは動物食で、昆虫や節足動物などを食べる。他方、ゲジも肉食で昆虫などを捕食 する。ゴキブリの天敵なので人間にとっては益虫である。ゲジは鳥等の天敵に襲われると足を自切するというが、モズの方が一枚上手だったようだ。
The prey caught by the shrike is like a house centipede because I can see a lot of long legs. Bull-headed shrike is carnivorous and eats insets and arthropods. On the other hand, House centipede is also carnivorous and preys on insects. It is a natural enemy of cockroaches and then is a beneficial worm for human. House centipede would self-cut legs when attacked by natural enemies such as birds, but the shrike seemed to have better skill than the house centipede.
モズは捕まえたゲジをすぐ食べてしまって、近くの木の枝に戻った。カワセミの池周辺にはいろいろな虫が生息しているのでモズはこの場所を 好んでいるらしい。
The shrike immediately ate the house centipede and returned to the tree branch nearby. It seems that the shrike likes this place because various insects and worms live around the “Kingfisher’s Pond”.
(Mizumoto Park, Tokyo, Japan, 12:42, Mar. 3, 2017, D810)