Migrating Birds (wataridori)

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Migrating Birds (wataridori, Japan)

***** Location: Japan, other regions
***** Season: Autumn
***** Category: Animals

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Explanation

migratory birds, birds of passage, wataridori 渡鳥
birds migrate, tori wataru 鳥渡る

More to be added.
Gabi Greve

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Just to mention, "migratory birds", is an autumn kigo in part because migrating birds arrive in Japan from Siberia to winter. They also depart in the spring, but in the culture of kigo, migrating birds migrate only one way, in one season, as far as the kigo wataridori is concerned.

Quote from A Kigo Essay by Richard Gilbert


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Worldwide use

Chesapeake Bay, USA

Canada geese fly north
Canada geese, like many other birds, winter in the Chesapeake Bay and surrounding areas. We are the southern end of the migratory route for these birds, so we have them in reverse. This is one of the things that makes the Chesapeake different from much of the Northern Hemisphere: They arrive in fall and go home in spring!

M. Kei
Chesapeake Bay Saijiki

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Romania
Migrating birds leave, Plecarea păsărilor călătoare
September till early October

Swallows and wild geese are said to leave around “Little St.Mary’s” (Nativity of the Virgin Mary, Sept.8th), storks and cranes somewhat later.

Cristian Mocanu
Romanian Saijiki

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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

[NOTE: The following sequence was triggered by the publication, in the “National Geographic” magazine, of a map showing the impressive distances covered each year by migrating birds around the world.
Already published in “Haiku Harvest”-].

a stork named “Princess”
flew over seven seas for
three months of sunshine.

the disabled child
tracking the wild geese’s route
on the NG map

“Bon voyage”, old stork!
would you send me some postcards
from South Africa?

8th of September:
Mary’s blue cloak sheltering
the youngest swallows

Cristian Mocanu

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Related words

***** Snow Geese

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