Japanese tit yamagara

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Japanese tit (yamagara)

***** Location: Japan, North America
***** Season: All Summer
***** Category: Animal

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Explanation

shijuukara 四十雀 (しじゅうから) Japanese great tit
Parus major

yamagara 山雀 (やまがら) Japanese tit
yamagarame やまがらめ
Parus varius
lit. "mountain sparrow"

higara 日雀 (ひがら) coal tit
Parus ater

kogara 小雀 (こがら) willow tit
kogarame こがらめ
Poecile montanus

enaga 柄長 (えなが) long-tailed tit
Long-tailed Bushtit
Aegithalos caudatus


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The tits, chickadees, and titmice constitute Paridae, a large family of small passerine birds which occur in the northern hemisphere and Africa. Most were formerly classified in the genus Parus.

Japanese Tit
Parus minor (often included in P. major)



also known as Oriental Tit,
is a passerine bird which replaces the similar Great Tit in Japan and the Russian Far East beyond the Amur River, including the Kuril Islands. Until recently, this species was classified as a subspecies of Great Tit, but Russian studies have indicated that the two species coexist in the Russian Far East without intermingling or frequent hybridization.
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Worldwide use


Canada

kigo for all winter

Chickadees (genus, Poecile)
are small birds, which live in woodlands throughout Canada, often visiting backyard birdfeeders. Both sexes have a dark cap and bib, which contrast against bright white cheeks. Chickadees do not migrate but spend the winter in small flocks foraging for insects and seeds. Social relationships in winter flocks follow a dominance hierarchy where high-ranking birds having preferential access to food.
Other species of birds often join chickadee flocks
source :　www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com


the snow storm
history, the chickadees
chicka dee dee *

* the lilting chirping sound of the chickadee, the aboriginal name for this tiny bird


mésange

tempête de neige
chassée, la mésange pépie
- chicka dee dee *

* le pépiement mélodique de la mésange, un oiseau minuscule.

Richard Vallance 2009

. WKD : Canadian SAIJIKI canadiens .


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Germany

Meise
Parus varius


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North America

titmouse, titmice
family Paridae
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Black-capped Chickadee
Poecile atricapillus

a small, North American songbird, a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae.
It is the state bird of both Maine and Massachusetts in the United States, and the provincial bird of New Brunswick in Canada.
It is notable for its capacity to lower its body temperature during cold winter nights, its good spatial memory to relocate the caches where it stores food, and its boldness near humans (they can feed from the hand).
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after the chickadee
what can I do
but smile

- Shared by Sandi Pray -
Joys of Japan, 2012



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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

山雀は芸をしながらわたりけり
yamagara wa gei o shinagara watari keri

Japanese tits
performs their fine art
through the trees

Kobayashi Issa

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山雀や榧の老木に寝にもどる
yamagara ya kaya no oi ki ni ne ni modoru

Japanese tits -
they come back to sleep
in the old torreya tree

Yosa Buson


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