#Siberian Stonechat

[sugiichi]

Saxicola torquata [ノビタキ,Siberian Stonechat]

人のいない蕎麦畑をそっと覗いてみたら、近いところで羽繕いしてました😍 止まってる場所も最高🎉

[kyokoito]

今秋も、MFに天使がやってきた✩°｡⋆⸜໒꒱

[birdblues]

Siberian Stonechat

[hideki-koga]

ノビタキ（Siberian Stonechat）

[outofangband]

Love, love, love the birds worldbuilding in Himring.

I've actually been digging through links looking for birds that occupy Nan Elmoth and the surrounding area - Himlad, northern Estolad, the banks of the Celon.

Any thoughts about the flying critters living around there?

I’ll start with Himlad!

Flora, fauna, geography and environment masterlist

Himlad was a realm in Eastern Beleriand, bordered on the West by the river Aros and on the East, its tributary, Celon. It means ‘cool plain’ in Sindarin and was described simply as a cold region, likely due to its proximity to the March and thus to the Iron Mountains, the cold fronts of which extend throughout the surrounding regions. 

I have imagined it as a steppe environment with an ecology similar to Mongolia. We have little information on environment other than the description of cold but some speculation can be done due to the habitat and through looking at similar real habitats, mostly in Northern Europe and temperate parts of Asia as well as parts of North America which Tolkien was inspired by the prairies in (source: The Flora of Middle Earth)

As always I include world building notes at the end so it’s not just a list of species! And as always please consider the list incomplete! There are so so many birds and I often go back to add more. Feel free to request a more specific prompt to focus on or a more specific family of birds

In the plains and steppe: tawny pipit (migratory, traveling west in the winter), David’s snowfinch, brown accentor, Siberian stonechat (also found in shrubs), rosy starling, swan geese, steppe partridge, pallas’s sandgrouse, great bustard, common cuckoo (migratory), cornrail (migratory, avoids the more arid parts), bearded vulture, crested lark, golden eagle, steppe eagle, imperial eagle, grey faced buzzard, ring necked pheasant, hazel grouse, black grouse, blue rock thrush, common quail, horned owls, gray partridge, desert warbler

Roosting in the sparse trees and shrubs: Yellow browed bunting, common rosefinch, fieldfare, stock dove, common nightjar, little owl, pine bunting

River shores: snow bunting (migratory), red necked crane (migratory), greater painted snipe, osprey, coturnix quail, grey heron, hen harrier, white throated dipper, bank swallow

Other: fork-tailed swift (migratory, mainly aerial), white headed duck, house sparrow, brambling (migratory), song thrush (migratory), black billed caper, northern wren

World building notes:

-Hunting with eagles and other birds of prey is more common than in the other Fëanorian realms (though most utilize birds at least sometimes). Golden and steppe eagles are used primarily by Celegorm and his loyal servants; these are huge and beautiful birds whose use is in some ways a boast of the skill of their handlers

-Celegorm’s knowledge of the language of birds is highly utilized for the defensive and offensive projects of Himlad. Though his followers do not for the most part have this gift they are highly skilled in using tracks, traces and conditions to understand the presence of local birds and the implications thereof. They know what to make of the stray tail feathers of a steppe partridge versus the presence of molt. They know the difference between the tracks of

Of course this applies to other creatures besides birds but as this post is about birds…

-Grouse and quail are sometimes kept for meat and eggs though different species of quail then are kept by the Marchwardens of Doriath. Some of the species are brought from Estolad, Ossiriand or Western Beleriand. The birds are housed in large open pens with small nesting boxes. 

-There are also domestic species of chicken, peacock and quail like birds that are kept for similar reasons. Hybrid species, sometimes with native species, occur naturally and through planned breeding projects during the Long Peacd

-The camouflage of steppe creatures including birds is often used in the fashion of Himlad’s soldiers.

-The various sections of archers among the army and scouts are distinguished by varying types of feathers used in their arrows. For example, Swan goose feather is used for the scouts that patrol the borders and rivers, swift feathers are used among the smaller more specialized groups and golden eagle feathers are reserved for the archers who will be first in the lines of offensive movements.

-Game birds are hunted for meat though all parts are used. Bird bones are actually highly utilized by the host of Himlad, in jewelry and headwear as well as whistles and other tools.

As always please feel free to ask more!

[wildtokyo-jp]

Crested honey buzzard, Pernis ptilorhynchus The hawk is famous for attacking the nests of hornets and wasps and feeding on larvae and pupae. I had been looking for the hawk, surely an environment they must be crossing from the south, and they finally came out after the rain. When a large bird of prey flies, it is so powerful that I cannot stop being excited. Songs of the Ruddy kingfisher and Kajika frog are beginning to be heard this week, and the young of the Chestnut-cheeked starling and Siberian stonechat that I had been quietly watching over had left the nest safely. I am gradually learning about the changing natural season of central highlands of Japan

ハチクマ スズメバチ類などの巣を襲い、幼虫や蛹を好んで食べる猛禽。きっと南から渡ってくる環境のはず、と探していたのだが、雨上がりにようやく出てきてくれた。大きな猛禽が飛ぶと、やはり迫力があって興奮を禁じえない。 今週はアカショウビンやカジカガエルの声が聞こえ始めたし、そっと見守っていたコムクドリやノビタキの雛も無事巣立った模様。 信州の自然の移り変わりを、少しずつ学ぶ日々。

Nagano Pref. 長野県

[abhinavpooniaphotography]

Siberian Stonechat

Shot on Nikon D500 with Nikkor 200-500mm.

Thapli, Haryana, India.

EXIF : f 5.6 | 1/2500 | 500 mm | ISO 800 |

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[soulandfuel]

Siberian Stonechat 🧡🪨 Winter Migrant ❄️ . 🌟📸 By @ashishs_wildlifephotography 🌟 Follow and support the photographer. Selected by : @soulandfuel 🎆Congrats for the feature🎆 ▶️Follow & use #birdphotographyworld to get featured on our page◀️ Image is a copyright of the photographer (at Chandu Budhera Gurgaon) https://www.instagram.com/p/ColszjnvHPB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[highsoaring]

by cenkpolat_wildlife

[akasyoubin-blog]

大豆のりノビタキ＠だだちゃ豆（枝豆）

渡りの戻りや冬鳥が入ってきて楽しみな時期になってきました。

[sugiichi]

Saxicola torquata [ノビタキ,Siberian Stonechat]

いい雰囲気の草に止まりました😍

[kyokoito]

[sandra1219]

Siberian Stonechat by Faizan Khan on 500px

[eda11y]

ノビタキ Siberian Stonechat by granheime1188g

[superbnature]

Siberian Stonechat by KemukemuKentaro http://ift.tt/2r7dakH

[birdstudies]

March 16, 2017 - Siberian Stonechat or Asian Stonechat (Saxicola maurus)

These stonechats are found across most of temperate Asia in open scrubland and grasslands. Their diet is almost entirely small invertebrates, including insects and larvae. Little is known of their breeding behavior, though stonechat nests have been found in bushes and on cliffs in the grassy areas where they live. They have been considered conspecific with the common stonechat (Saxicola torquatus) but recent genetic data has lead to some taxonomists considering them to be a separate species.