Showing posts with label mejiro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mejiro. Show all posts
Friday, May 7, 2010
Japanese White-eye
This little guy flew straight into our window and dropped like a stone. We put him in the shade up high out of reach of the local cats and an hour later it was gone, so I presume it was OK.
In Japanese it is known as mejiro, which means white eye.
It is common throughout Japan and most of East Asia, It was kept as a caged bird because of its song.
Introduced into Hawaii for pest control in the early twentieth century, it is now a dominant species there.
Labels:
bird,
mejiro,
Shimonohara
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