Japan

• Amami Island

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  Best place for Lidth's Jay and Amami Woodcock

• Eastern Hokkaido

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  For Blakiston's Fish-Owl, Red-crowned Crane and Steller's Sea-Eagle.

• Ferry between Hokkaido and Honshu

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  For seabirds.

• Hakata Bay

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  For Black-faced Spoonbill and Saunder's Gull.

• Izumi

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  For White-naped, Hooded, Sandhill, Common and Siberian Cranes.

• Karuizawa

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  For summer migrants

• Miyake Island

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  For Seven Island Thrush, Styan's Grasshopper Warbler and Ijima's Warbler.

• Okinawa

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  For Okinawa Rail, Pryer's Woodpecker and Ryukyu Robin.

• Koji TAGI

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• Number of bird species: 721

  (Extant as at May 2025)

  National Bird: Green Pheasant Phasianus versicolor

• Number of endemics: 20

  Copper Pheasant Phasianus soemmerringi
  Green Pheasant Phasianus versicolor
  Ryukyu Green Pigeon Treron permagnus
  Okinawa Rail Rallus okinawae
  Amami Woodpecker Dendrocopos owstoni
  Okinawa Woodpecker Dendrocopos noguchii
  Japanese Woodpecker Picus awokera
  Miyako Island Kingfisher Todiramphus miyakoensis
  Ryūkyū Minivet Pericrocotus tegimae
  Amami (Lidth’s) Jay Garrulus lidthi
  Iriomote Tit Sittiparus olivaceus
  Izu (Owston’s) Tit Sittiparus owstoni
  Bonin White-eye Apalopteron familiare
  Amami Thrush Zoothera major
  Izu Thrush Turdus celaenops
  Izu Robin Erithacus tanensis
  Ryūkyū Robin Erithacus komadori
  Okinawa Robin Erithacus namiyei
  Ryūkyū Flycatcher Ficedula owstoni
  Bonin Greenfinch Chloris kittlitzi
• 7 Breeding Endemics:
  (These species overwinter in other countries, but only breed in Japan):
  

  Matsudaira's Storm Petrel Oceanodroma matsudairae
  Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus
  Bryan's Sheerwater Puffinus bryani
  Ijima's Willow Warbler Phylloscopus ijimae
  Japanese Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus xanthodryas
  Yellow Bunting Emberiza sulphurata
  Japanese Pied Wagtail Motacilla grandis
  

• A Birdwatcher's Guide to Japan

  | By Mark Brazil | Kodansha America | 1987 | Paperback | 220 pages, Maps | Out of Print | ISBN: 9780870118494 Buy this book from NHBS.com

• Birds of Japan

  | By Mark Brazil | Christopher Helm | 2018 | Paperback | 416 Pages | 189 plates with colour illustrations; colour photos, colour distribution maps | ISBN: 9781472913869 Buy this book from NHBS.com

• Birds of Japan

  | By Otani Chikara | Lynx Edicions | 2019 | Flexibound | 392 Pages | 1800+ colour illustrations, 540+ colour distribution maps | ISBN: 9788416728121 Buy this book from NHBS.com

• Birds of Japan and North-East Asia

  | (A Photographic Guide) | by Tadao Shimba | Christopher Helm | 2007 | Paperback | 656 pages | 1750 colour photos | ISBN: 9781472947246 Buy this book from NHBS.com

• Collins Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia

  | By Norman Arlott | William Collins | 2017 | Hardback | 432 pages, 178 plates with colour illustrations; colour distribution maps | ISBN: 9780007429547 Buy this book from NHBS.com

• Common and Iconic Birds of Japan

  | By Mark Brazil | Japan Nature Guides | 2015 | Unbound | 12 pages, colour illustrations | ISBN: 9784990722821 Buy this book from NHBS.com

• Japan Birds

  | (A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species) | by James R Kavanagh | Waterford Press | 2027 | Unbound | 12 pages, colour illustrations, 1 colour map | ISBN: 9781620052761 Buy this book from NHBS.com

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  Japanese Birds

  Apple iOS | Android

  | Enwit Inc | 280.4 MB | Requires iOS 9.3 or later | Requires Android 5.0 and up |
  
  This app provides information on 250 species of birds in Japan, complete with photographs, descriptions, and sounds. There are 364 sounds—including songs, calls, and drumming. Beautiful birdsong, passionate canzone, the melancholy melody of a love song, intense drumming, birdcall as daily communication—enjoy the diverse world of wild birds.

• BirdLife Nature Zone

  Information
  Factsheet

• Japan Nature Guides

  Website
  Japan Nature Guides was founded in 2011 with the aim of providing accessible information on the natural history of Japan, to provide information on when and where to go to watch birds, mammals and other wildlife in Japan, and to facilitate guided or un-guided visits throughout the archipelago.

• Yatsu Higata Nature Observation Center

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  Yatsu Higata is playing an important role as a stopover point for the migrating birds flying between the land of the North (Siberia) and the countries of the South (Australia and Southeast Asia). Yatsu Higata presents the people so many happy encounters with the summer-birds who come to nurse their babies, the winter-birds who fly in to winter and the traveler birds perching in spring and fall. (Damag due to the 2011 earthquake has now been repaired and the obs re-opened in April)

• Abiko City Museum of Birds

  Webpage
  Harmony among Birds and People

• BirdLife International Tokyo

  Website
  BirdLife International Tokyo is the Japanese presence of BirdLife International, the world’s oldest and largest international nature conservation partnership working to protect birds and their habitats.

• Hawk Migration Network of Japan

  Website
  Site in Japanese

• Japan Alcid Society

  Website
  Includes a photogallery

• The Ornithological Society of Japan

  Website
  The Society is the only ornithological society in Japan and currently has approximately 1,300 members. The main purposes and activities of the Society are the following...

• Wild Bird Society of Japan

  Website
  Wild Bird Society of Japan is a private organization founded in 1934 which has over 45,000 members and 90 chapters throughout Japan. Its purpose is to protect birds and their habitat, to encourage more people to enjoy bird watching, and to carry on research concerning the status and habitat of birds.

Abbreviations Key

• *Wildlife Protection Areas in Japan

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  As of 1 November 2011, seventy-nine Wildlife Protection Areas had been established at a national level, covering an area of 5,772 km2, including 1,561 km2 of Special Protection Areas.[6] A further three Wildlife Protection Areas totalling 52.3 km2 were established in June 2012, prior to the eleventh Ramsar wetland conference which takes place from 6 to 13 July 2012

• BS Karuizawa Wild Bird Sanctuary

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  The Karuizawa Wild Bird Sanctuary (Karuizawa Yacho no Mori) is about 100 hectares of forestland a little north-east of the resort town of Karuizawa in Nagano prefecture. The Sanctuary is forestland which contains among other trees Japanese chestnut and larch. There are about 3km of paths which visitors can freely wander through, observing the variegated flora and fauna. Over eighty species of birds, many of them quite rare and sporting beautiful plumage, can be viewed here throughout the year.

• BS Osaka-Nankou Sanctuary

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  Osaka Nankou Bird Sanctuary is in the northwest corner of Sakishima landfill with about 1,000 ha area in Osaka Bay. West side of the sanctuary faces the Osaka Bay through the sea bank. Now Osaka Nankou Bird Sanctuary plays a role as an important stopover site, and is nominated as one of Japan's important wetlands by the Ministry of the Environment.

• BS Syunkunitai Wild Bird Sanctuary

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  Syunkunitai is known as a important habitat for birds and a quite famous bird-watching area throughout Japan. Syunkunitai is a long and narow sandbank where has 8km in length and 1.3km in width. It is surrounded by the water and has various natural habitats as the stream, marsh, grassland and deciduous forest etc., therefore various species of birds, animals, insects and plants can live in here. About 250 species of birds have been recorded and endangered species as Red-crowned Cranes, White-tailed Eagles and Black Woodpeckers breed in Syunkunitai.

• BS Tateyama Wild Bird Sanctuary

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  Due to its location in the center of the Japanese Archipelago, this area has long been used by migratory birds as a place to rest and gather food and water, for which reason it has been designated as a protected bird sanctuary…

• BS Tokyo Port Wild Birds Park

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  This is a small bird sanctuary (27 hectares) of the Wild Bird Society of Japan in the highly developed harbour area between central Tokyo and Haneda airport. It consists actually of two small parks, separated by a road. The entrance is in the west park. This park contains two small freshwater ponds closely surrounded by small trees and shrubs. Via a footbridge over the road one reaches the eastern park: a small open complex of freshwater ponds and mud flats and a larger tidal basin. In the middle there is a nicely designed building for bird observation with lots of telescopes, a tiny library and friendly japanese guides. In March 97 reconstruction of the eastern park has begun.

• BS Tsurui Ito Tancho Crane Sanctuary

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  This time we would like to introduce HARADA, Osamu, Chief Ranger of the Tsurui-Ito Red-Crowned Crane Sanctuary. Tsurui Village, Hokkaido, where Harada works, is well known as a feeding ground for Red-crowned cranes in winter. The red-crowned crane has been designated a special natural treasure of Japan. Harada is one of the leading activists striving to protect these precious birds. However, he does not focus on only the cranes. In order to protect the cranes, we must think about the whole environment in which they live. We had an interesting interview with HARADA about how he has been facing the present situation of the cranes and about the abundant nature of Hokkaido.

• BS Utonai-ko Sanctuary

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  In May, 1981, the Wild Bird Society of Japan designated Lake Utonai and its surrounding marshland covering 511 hectares as a Bird Sanctuary, the nation's first of its kind, for the purpose of preserving nature and the wildlife as well as propagating the drive. In the sanctuary, a Nature Center, an observation hut and Bird-watching paths are provided. Aiming at protecting Lake Utonai, including its surrounding marshland and waterfowl, the city and nature protection organizations are lobbing the sanctuary to be designated as a location registered with the Lamsar Treaty through the Environmental Agency and other Authorities concerned.

• BS Yonago Waterbird Sanctuary

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  Yonago Waterbirds Sanctuary Companion Circle is a citizens organization which supports the activities of the Yonago Waterbirds Sanctuary… [Japanese only]

• NP Kushiro Marshland

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  The Kushiro Marshland in Hokkaido was designated as a national park in 1987 in order to preserve the country's largest wetland and marsh habitat which supports the only known population of endangered Japanese Cranes in Japan.

• NR Koyaike Park

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  A pond occupies about half of the park, and viewing is possible during all four season. In addition to such sights as ducks, egrets, and whistler swans, in the winter visitors can also see tufted ducks.

• WII IBA Katano-kamoike Lake

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  Katano-kamoike is a permanent freshwater lake in Kaga City, in the western part of Ishikawa Prefecture, central Honshu (main island), Japan. The Lake is surrounded by forested hills and rice fields. The Sea of Japan lies beyond the hill in the northwest of the Lake. The Lake is a wintering sites of the largest numbers of White-fronted Goose and Middendorf's Bean Goose in the western Japan.

• WII Kushiro International Wetland Center

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  The Kushiro International Wetland Centre (KIWC) is committed to promoting the wise use of wetlands concept and specific approaches to this end. Such use is intended to enable the utilization of gifts provided by wetlands in daily life while protecting the ecological integrity of these areas. KIWC is based in the Kushiro region of Hokkaido in northern Japan...

• WII Lake Akkeshi - Bekanbeushi Marsh

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  Lake Akkeshi is a shallow and brackish lake adjoining Akkeshi bay with a perimeter of 26 km. It is famed for its oyster and short-necked clam farming. At low tide several tidelands become exposed which provide good feeding grounds for waterfowl. For this reason, Japanese Crane breed here from spring to autumn whilst Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus; over ten species of wild geese, ducks, White-tailed Sea Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla and Steller's Sea Eagle H. pelagicus are to be found here from autumn to spring.

• Wetlands

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  Japan currently has 50 sites designated as Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Sites), with a surface area of 148,002 hectares.

• eBird

  Sightings
  eBirding This Month

• 7 Wonders Birding

  Tour Operator
  ing trips you can take and Japan surely is the premier destination for winter birding.

• AJT All Japan Tours

  Local Tour Operator
  Capture the natural splendor of Japan on film at beautiful locations in Hokkaido and Honshu.

• Alvaro's Adventures

  Tour Operator
  Led by Alvaro Jaramillo and Japanese birding expert Hiroyuki Tanoi.

• Bird Photo Tours ASIA

  Tour Operator
  This tour will focus on close photographic encounters with Red-crowned Cranes dancing and displaying at their riverine roosts and Steller’s Sea Eagles hunting on the pack ice plus the world’s largest owl, Blakinston’s Fish Owl hunting at night.

• BirdFinders

  Tour Operator
  This superb tour visits two of the three main islands, Hokkaido and Kyushu, where we will see huge gatherings of wintering Hooded Cranes together with smaller numbers of White-naped Cranes and the possibility of a vagrant Siberian Crane...

• BirdQuest

  Tour Operator
  JAPAN SPECIALITIES – including Honshu, Izu, Amami, Okinawa, Ishigaki, Iriomote, Hokkaido and the Bonin Islands

• Birding Ecotours

  Tour Operator
  Japan’s avifauna is incredibly rich, with more than 600 species having been recorded here. More than 60% are migratory, therefore winter is the preferred birding season in Japan. This is the time for watching wintering Hooded and White-naped Cranes in addition to the native Red-crowned Crane. and many other resident and migrant species in addition to the approximately 60 endemic or regionally endemic species.

• Birds Wildlife & Nature

  Tour Operator
  To visit Japan in winter is a unique and wonderful experience. Tens of thousands of Cranes of at least 5 species can be seen dancing and displaying on the snowy fields or flying into roost against the backdrop of glorious sunsets.

• FieldGuides

  Tour Operator
  Japan's winter spectacles, including the fabulous cranes and Steller's Sea-Eagle.

• HeatherLea

  Tour Operator
  Ultimate Japan A Wonderful Far Eastern Winter Wildlife Adventure

• Japan Nature Guides

  Local Tour Operator
  At JNG we can help you plan and arrange birding tours throughout the country.

• Kolibri Expeditions

  Tour Operator

• Naturalist Journeys

  Tour Operator
  Naturalist Journeys offers an incredibly exciting birding & nature tour to Japan. Our local expert guide leads this East Asia birding tour. Choose one of the Japan birding & nature tours to find out more.

• Rockjumper

  Tour Operator
  Our Highlights of Japan tour during spring takes in the very best of what Japan has to offer during this fabulous time of year...

• Sarus Tours

  Tour Operator
  Welcome to japanbirding.com, specialising in birding across the diverse islands that make up Japan. We are part of Sarus Bird Tours, offering both birding tours to Japan, and ground agent services to other birding tour companies. Select the relevant button below.

• Sicklebill Safaris

  Tour Operator
  Japan has recorded over 700 species of birds and has 22 endemics including7 breeding endemics. Many of these can be seen during a bird tour

• The Travelling Naturalist

  Tour Operator
  As well as the vision of thousands of migrating cranes, which so gracefully symbolise the country, Japan offers wondrous birding and wildlife opportunities.

• Tropical Birding Tours

  Tour Operator
  Japan – the clean-cut, modern economic powerhouse – is also an archipelago that is as variable as it is exciting. From the subtropics of Kyushu to temperate Hokkaido...

• WINGS

  Tour Operator
  Japan in Spring Endemics and Culture

• 2016 [02 February] - Phil Gregory

  Report
  This was my twelfth winter Japan trip, and this year was blessed with reasonable to good weather (other than one wet day on Kyushu), whilst Hokkaido was gorgeous, with little snow, very little ice, and relatively mild temperatures. It seemed to be an odd year though, with quite a few species being scarce or absent; there were no Gray-headed Lapwings around, and we didn't see Daurian Jackdaw either. Jun Matsui was once more my co-leader and our driver, and we benefited greatly from his patience, local knowledge, and interpretive skills...

• 2016 [02 February] - T Devaram - Hokkaido

  Report
  I picked up a single “Steller’s Sea Eagle” perched on a electricity pylon en route to the airport. After exchanging greetings, we set our GPS to Tsurui Ito Tancho Sanctuary. The 25km ride took more than 30 mins with the speed limit in Hokkaido is 50km...

• 2017 [01 January] - Phil Gregory

  Report
  ...Japanese Woodpecker showed very well and was calling and drumming at Sendae, where we also found some distant Chinese Penduline Tits and Chestnut-eared Bunting for most. Crested Kingfisher and Long-billed Plover showed nicely on the Sendae River as we drove to Miike. Lake Miike was fog-shrouded and with dull showery conditions, but still gave us views of Yellow-throated Buntings and Ryukyu Minivet, whilst Japanese Woodpecker also showed very well and White-backed Woodpecker all too briefly, despite drumming loudly but out of sight for ages...

• 2017 [02 February] - Glen Valentine - Ryukyu Islands

  PDF Report
  ...we were soon enjoying our first views of some of Japan’s fairly common and widespread species,like Brown-eared Bulbul, Grey-cappedGreenfinch, Bull-headed Shrike, Carrion andLarge-billed Crows, Japanese Tit, WhitecheekedStarling, White Wagtail and DuskyThrush. The river harboured familiarwaterfowl, such as Gadwall, Eurasian Wigeon,Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Pintail,Eurasian Teal, Common Pochard, Tufted Duckand Greater Scaup, as well as Great CrestedGrebe, the cosmopolitan Black-crowned NightHeron, Great Cormorant in various stages ofplumage, Grey Heron, Black-headed, Mew andVega Gulls and Black-winged Stilt. Our first ofmany Western Osprey and Black Kite lingerednearby, while a fleeting Japanese Bush Warblerwas seen in the adjacent reedbeds....

• 2017 [03 March] - Glen Valentine

  PDF Report
  ...Our first full day on Hokkaido beganwith the most beautiful day imaginable.It was bright, sunny, still, crisp and clear.Absolutely stellar! Before departing ourhotel for the Red-crowned Cranegrounds a little further north, we decidedto have a quick look at the nearby riverand here we found several common andwidespread, but still enjoyable, new tripspecies such as Red-breasted andCommon Mergansers, Slaty-backed Gulland Common Golden-eye...

• 2018 [02 February] - Andres Vasquez - Birding On Ice

  PDF Report
  Japan in Winter is a magical place and a tour that every birder MUST do at some point in life. With three of the birding world’s Super Stars like the hulking Steller’s Sea-Eagle, the elegant and iconic Red-crowned Cranes (once as little as 16 pairs was all there was for this species), the largest owl in the World Blakiston’s Fish-Owl posing for pictures, Hokkaido alone among the three islands visited, is a birder’s paradise. If you add to this heavyweight trio other localized targets like Japanese Accentor, Japanese Murrelet, Saunders’s Gull, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Baikal Teal, Asian Rosy-Finch, Black-faced Spoonbill, Falcated Duck, Japanese Waxwing, and Japanese Wood-Pigeon, then this tour is already a birder’s, and a lister’s dream.

• 2018 [02 February] - Phil Gregory

  Report
  ...and a bird feeder that yielded Great Spotted Woodpecker, the strikingly pale amurensis race of Eurasian Nuthatch, Marsh Tit, and the distinctive brandtii race of Eurasian Jay. A Solitary Snipe also showed in the stream not long after we arrived, a much wanted bird. Some folks saw Blakiston's Fish-Owl at the fishing area outside, with great looks from the comfort of the lounge around 1800!

• 2018 [03 Mar] - Matthew Kwan - Hokkaido, Japan

  Report
  Hokkaido is likely considered one of the top sites anywhere in Asia for winter birding, the number of species that you can find during the harsh winter months are surprising, with impressive species such as Steller’s Sea Eagles, Red-crowned Cranes and Blakiston’s Fish Owls...

• 2018 [03 March] - Erik Forsyth

  PDF Report
  ...while we searched various waterways, reedbeds and rice-fields included a confiding RuddybreastedCrake, Chinese Penduline Tit, Bull-headed Shrike, Common Reed, Chestnut-eared, Rustic andMeadow Buntings, Japanese and WhiteWagtails, White-cheeked and EurasianStarlings, and smart Russet Sparrows...

• 2018 [06 June] - Okinawa

  Report
  Mostly photos....

• 2019 [06 June] - Dave Farrow

  PDF Report
  This year’s tour of Japan was once again a real delight, a wonderful island-hopping extravaganza around the Japanese archipelago. In the mountain forests on the island of Honshu we saw Japanese Green Woodpecker, Japanese Accentor, Brown-headed and Japanese Thrushes, Siberian Blue Robin, Narcissus and Blue-and-white Flycatchers, Eastern Crowned and Japanese Leaf Warblers, Japanese Grosbeak, Chestnut-eared and Japanese Yellow Bunting, and two different daytime Ural Owls, while in lowlands and wetland areas we saw Japanese Reed Bunting, Marsh Grassbird, Japanese Green Pheasant, Japanese Wagtail and Chestnut-cheeked Starlings

• 2020 [03 March] - Dušan Brinkhuizen

  PDF Report
  We had to take three different trains but everything went smooth and we even did some birding from the train platform from where we watched our first Bull-headed Shrike!

• 2023 [05 May] - Sofia Broström

  PDF Report
  My son Sander and I visited the Nansei-Shoto Islands in South Japan for the last three weeks of May, 2023.

• 2023 [12 December] - Bryan Shirley

  PDF Report
  We spent the first few days of our trip in southern Kyushu and were treated to nearly 15,000 Hooded and White-naped Cranes. The middle section of our trip was in central Honshu with thousands of wintering waterfowl, famous Japanese Gardens, Snow Monkeys, temples and castles. We ended our trip in the far north on the island of Hokkaido watching Red-crowned Cranes, eagles, and owls!

• 2024 [01 January] - Kent Skaggs

  PDF Report
  Annotated List

• 2024 [02 February] - David Hoddinott

  PDF Report
  ...The following morning, we set off for Hanare Mountain where we had several great sightings. The optional walk up the mountain was strenuous and needed a good level of fitness. Highlights here included Willow Tit, Japanese Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Eurasian Nuthatch, Brambling, Hawfinch, Eurasian Bullfinch, Meadow Bunting, Pallas’s Rosefinch and a splendid mammal in the form of Japanese Serow...

• 2024 [02 February] - Erik Vikkelsø Rasmussen

  PDF Report
  ...After an early breakfast driving from Memanbetsu to our accommodation at Rausu. During the day we birded at both at Abashiri, Tofutso-ko and Shibetsu before we arrived at Rausu 16.00. The Okhotsk Sea outside Abashiri harbor was frozen with ice packs. Our first Harlequin Ducks in the harbor and Stellers Sea-Eagles was sitting on the pack ice here...

• 2024 [02 February] - Rob Gordijn

  PDF Report
  Targets: Pale Thrush, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Varied Tit, Japanese Bush Warbler, Japanese Wagtail, Meadow Bunting, Masked Bunting, Japanese Night Heron. We visited 3 different parks...

• 2024 [03 March] - Andrew Walker

  PDF Report
  We recorded 140 bird species on this Japanese birdwatching tour (one of these was heard only) which included six crane species; Siberian Crane, Red-crowned Crane, White-naped Crane, Hooded Crane, Common Crane, and Sandhill Crane.

• 2024 [06 June]m- Bryan Shirley

  PDF Report
  We had an op*onal birding walk this morning, mee*ng at six to walk a few blocks over to Tokyo’s Tama River. To the south Mt. Fuji was visible, s*ll impressive to see in spite of the haze. Birds included Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Great Cormorant, Large-billed Crow, Asian House Mar*n, and White-cheeked Starling; fiSeen species in all. Then it was *me to pack up and catch the hotel shuTle over to the nearby airport to board our ANA mid-morning flight...

• 2025 [02 February] - Nigel Redman

  PDF Report
  Our classic winter tour this year successfully targeted most of Japan’s resident endemics and near-endemics, including two races of the shy Copper Pheasant, Green Pheasant, Japanese Murrelet, Japanese Green Woodpecker, Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Accentor, Japanese Wagtail and Grey Bunting...

• ARRCN Asian Raptor Migration Webpage

  Website
  This web site is consisted by information of Asian raptor migration. Therfore, if you have some information on Asian raptor migration, please send me the data.We ask that the following raptor migration data be provided, at least.

• Bird Songs in Japan

  Website
  Clickable links to birdsong

• Birds of Japan

  Website
  What's so great about a list of bird names? After all, the names that men give are just a pale reflection of the birds themselves. Well, bird-lovers may rejoice in biodiversity, but in matters linguistic they tend to use common or garden English as a lowest common denominator. So, in the interest of 'lingua-diversity', here it is: a list of bird species of Japan, with names in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, German, and French

• Seabirding Japan

  Website
  Photos of Jap[anese sea birds...

• Teuri Island Seabird Information Centre

  Website
  Where to see Japanese seabirds

• Masa Miyamoto

  BLOG
  Birding BLOG with some superb photos from Hikkaido

• Nobuhiro Hashimoto - Shore Birds in Japan

  BLOG
  Blog and many of photos shorebirds in japan

• Stuart Price - Hakodate Birding

  BLOG
  My name is Stuart Price and I'm an amateur bird photographer based in Hakodate in the south of Hokkaido, Japan. I've been doing this blog since 2007 and have accumulated a fair amount of bird photos over the years. I've been using Canon gear for almost all the time although when I started I was struggling with a cheap compact camera and telecope, I got about 2 decent photos from 18 months digiscoping.

• Tokyo Birder

  BLOG
  Birdwatching in Japan… a one year (2006) diary of a birder in Tokyo

• Artist - Rakusan Tsuchiya

  Gallery
  Rakusan Tsuchiya - Japanese Painter, Woodblock Print Artist, and Printer 1896 - 1976

• Birdgraphic

  Gallery
  Weblog of Japanese bird photograph using DIGISCO photo system

• Photographer - Dave Farrow

  Gallery
  Images from a 2004 visit

• Photographer - Monte M & Christopher H Taylor

  Gallery
  There are two galleries of Japanese birds

• Photographer - Setsuko & Shimpei Watanabe

  Gallery
  Many images - some excellent