Endangered Japanese Bird in Japan
Birds are such beautiful creatures and with as much pesticides that have been used over the years and such a greater amount of prey and bird caging, it has caused those beautiful creatures to become endangered. One of those endangered species is the Yellow Bunting found in Japan.
The Japanese Yellow Bunting is a small perching bird, yellow in color with black accents around the bill, eyes and wings. Males and females only differ in the tint of the yellow, which is paler in females, and there is no black on their bills. This beautiful species has a sweet twittering song and a soft “tsip” call during breeding time. The Japanese Yellow Bunting only breed for less than 3 months of the year, from mid-May to early July. They also only lay three to five eggs with each breeding in a low built nest in a bush. Because of how low they build their nests, many of their eggs may not survive, due to prey.
When those few birds do survive and grow up, they are mainly found on the island of Monshu. They are also occasionally found on the island of Kyushu. The Japanese Yellow Bunting population is relatively small. They are currently classified as vulnerable. These birds keep losing their habitats because more forests are being cut down to keep up with the growing population and industries. They are also threatened by things like pesticides with poisons them. The bird caging industry is also another thing that threatens this small bird. Caging them and putting them into a pet shop for them to be sold does not allow for them to breed naturally and help build up their population.
There are ways we can help the Japanese Yellow Bunting. We can help them by not using poisonous pesticides that are harming our birds and other animals. We can also not purchase them from pet shops and we can encourage those owners to get other birds instead of threatened or endangered ones. While we cannot stop growing populations and industries, we can be of great mind and do the things we can control to help save this beautiful bird.