Hiraodai Countryside Park


	Introducing special landscape features, caves, animals, plants, and so on in Hiraodai Countryside Park

Landscape / Cave / Nature / Plants

Nature :
There are many creatures, which threaded in extinction at Hiraodai.
Please donŐt disturb its wild life.

Animals

Kikugashira Bat

The size of them is about sixty to eighty millimeters. They have nocturnal habit, so they stay in the cave during they day. They sleep in large crowds. Their staple is mainly insects.

Birds

	Chestnut-eared Bunting Their primal physical characteristic are red-brown marking under the eyes. They live in short and dry grounds, and chirping in the grass or the end of a brunch. In this winter time, they immigrate to warmer regions. They eat seeds and insects while hopping on the ground.

	Siberian Meadow Bunting There is white under the eyes and throat and brown on the chest. They perch in high elevations with sticking their chests outward. These birds are commonly seen on farms and glass lands. They eat seeds and insects on the ground and live in small numbered group whey non breeding season.

	Japanese Skylark Because they sing when the skies are clear and sunny, they got their Japanese name "hibari (sunny day)" . They live on grass grounds, and they like to soar higher and higher into the sky. They like short grass is thinly grown. Living in dry places and eating seeds or insects is their habit. Also they make nests on the ground with dead grasses.

Insects

	Ura Gin Suji Hyoumon (The Eastern Silver stripe) Their name comes from their panther pattern on wings. (Hyoumon means it in Japanese) They main live in grass grounds or river banks, but the numbers of them are decreasing in Japan.

	Mesu Guro Hyoumon (The Sagana Fritillary ) Besides male butterfly has a clear panther pattern on their wings, female one has white spots on their black wings. Because of this character, they got its name Mesu Guro Hyoumon. Mainly, male one likes to live in grasslands, but female one likes dark places.

	Hatchou Tomboh (Nannophiya pygmaea) Its body length is about 10 to 13 millimeter. They are very small dragonflies. The male is red, and female has a striped pattern. They live in marshy area. The visitor can see them in summer time.

	Beetle The beetle has great strength. They can pull things that weight more than 20 times heavier than them.