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May 10-20, 2004
  on the main Japanese island of Honshu (hn)
  on the small Hegura Island, off western Honshu in the Sea of Japan (hi), 
  May 15-18, & including the ferry to/from the island   
   
     
(t): a globally threatened or rare species, designated by Birdlife International.
(t1): critical     (t2): endangered     (t3): vulnerable
(nt): a near-threatened species globally.
(i): introduced species.
(e): endemic to Japan
(r/JA): rare in Japan
(h): heard only

Links:

Cumulative Lists of Birds during our Japan Tours

List of Japanese Mammals

List of Japanese Butterflies

Upcoming Tours in Japan

1. Little Grebe - hn 
   
2. Streaked Shearwater - hi
   
3. Great Cormorant - hn
   
4. Temminck's (or Japanese) Cormorant - hi
   
5. Pelagic Cormorant - hi
   
6. Black-crowned Night-Heron - hi
   
7. Cattle Egret - hn,hi
   
8. Little Egret - hn,hi
   
9. Intermediate Egret - hn,hi
   
10. Great Egret - hn,hi
    
11. Grey Heron - hn,hi
    
12. Pacific Reef-Heron - hn, hi (both light & dark morphs)
    
13. Eurasian Wigeon - hn,hi
    
14. Common/Eurasian Green-winged Teal - hn
    
15. Mallard - hn
    
16. Spot-billed Duck - hn,hi
    
17. Tufted Duck - hn
    
18. Smew - hn
    
19. Red-breasted Merganser - hi (1 bird, out of season)
    
20. Common Merganser (or Goosander) - hn
    
21. Osprey - hn,hi
    
22. Black (-eared) Kite - hn,hi
    
23. Asian (or Eastern) Marsh Harrier - hi (the far-eastern subspecies)
    
24. Hen Harrier - hi (no longer considered conspecific with the Northern Harrier of North America)
    
25. Japanese (or Lesser) Sparrowhawk - hi
    
26. Common Buzzard - hn
    
27. Eurasian/Northern Hobby - hi
    
28. Peregrine Falcon - hi
    
29. (Japanese) Green Pheasant (e) - hn
    
30. Moorhen (or Common Gallinule) - hn,hi
    
31. Eurasian/Common Coot - hn
    
32. Black-winged Stilt - hn
    
33. Little Ringed Plover - hn
    
34. Kentish Plover - hn  (called Snowy Plover in North America)
    
35. Mongolian Plover (or Lesser Sandplover) - hn,hi
    
36. Pacific Golden Plover - hn,hi
    
37. Black-bellied (or Grey) Plover - hn
    
38. Great Knot - hn
    
39. Red-necked (or Rufous-necked) Stint - hn,hi
    
40. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper - hn
    
41. Curlew Sandpiper - hn
    
42. Dunlin - hn
    
43. Sanderling - hi
    
44. (Red) Knot - hi
    
45. (Ruddy) Turnstone - hn,hi
    
46. Common Snipe - hn,hi  (no longer considered conspecific with what's now the Wilson's Snipe of North America)
    
47. Latham's (or Japanese) Snipe - hi
    
48. Common Greenshank - hi
    
49. Green Sandpiper - hn
    
50. Common Sandpiper - hi
    
51. Bar-tailed Godwit - hn
    
52. Whimbrel - hn
    
53. Grey-tailed (or Polynesian) Tattler - hn,hi
    
54. Red-necked Phalarope - hi
    
55. Red (or Grey) Phalarope - hi 
    
56. Black-tailed Gull - hn,hi
    
57. Vega (form of the Herring) Gull - hn,hi
    
58. Slaty-backed Gull - hn,hi
    
59. Glaucous-winged Gull - hn
    
60. Glaucous Gull - hn
    
61. Common Tern - hn
    
62. Little Tern - hn
    
63. Japanese Murrelet (t3) (e) - hi
    
64. Feral Pigeon (i) - hn,hi
    
65. Rufous (or Oriental) Turtle-Dove - hn,hi
    
66. Japanese (or White-bellied) Green Pigeon - hn
    
67. Japanese (or Black) Wood-Pigeon (nt) - hi
    
68. Common Cuckoo - hn,hi
    
69. Oriental (or Himalayan) Cuckoo - hn,hi
    
70. Lesser Cuckoo - hi
    
71. Japanese (formerly part of Collared) Scops-Owl - hi
    
72. a swift with 3 English names, either:
    Pacific, or White-rumped, or Fork-tailed Swift - hi
    
73. Eurasian Kingfisher - hi
    
74. Great Spotted Woodpecker - hn
    
75. (Japanese) Pygmy Woodpecker - hn
    
76. (Japanese) Skylark - hn
    
77. (Barn) Swallow - hn,hi
    
78. Bank Swallow (or Sand Martin) - hn,hi
    
79. Red-rumped Swallow - hi
    
80. Asian House Martin - hn
    
81. Olive-backed Pipit (has also been called Indian Tree Pipit) - hi
    
82. (Siberian race of) Buff-bellied Pipit - hn  (called American Pipit in North America)
    
83. Yellow Wagtail (the subspecies simillima) - hi
    
84. Grey Wagtail - hn,hi
    
85. Black-backed Wagtail - hn,hi
    
86. Japanese Wagtail - hn
    
87. Brown-eared Bulbul - hn
    
88. Ashy Minivet - hi
    
89. (Bohemian) Waxwing - hn
    
90. Brown (or Pallas's) Dipper - hn
    
91. (Northern) Wren - hn  (called Winter Wren in North America)
    
92. Japanese Robin - hn
    
93. Swinhoe's (or Rufous-tailed) Robin (r/JA) - hi
    
94. Siberian Blue Robin - hi
    
95. Siberian Rubythroat - hi
    
96. Daurian Redstart - hi
    
97. Siberian Stonechat - hi
    
98. Blue Rock Thrush - hn,hi (red-bellied form)
    
99. White's (or Scaly) Ground Thrush - hi
    
100. Siberian (Ground) Thrush - hi
     
101. Brown Thrush - hi
     
102. Pale Thrush -hi
     
103. Eye-browed (or Grey-headed) Thrush - hi
     
104. Dusky Thrush - hi
     
105. Japanese (Grey) Thrush - hi
     
106. Japanese Bush Warbler - hn,hi
     
107. Zitting Cisticola (has been called Fan-tailed Warbler) - hn
     
108. Marsh Grassbird (or Japanese Marsh Warbler) (t3)  - hn
     
109. Eastern (or Oriental) Great Reed Warbler - hn,hi
     
110. Black-browed (or Schenk's) Reed Warbler - hi
     
111. Eastern Crowned (Willow-, or Leaf-) Warbler - hn,hi
     
112. Sikhalin (or Pale-legged) (Willow-, or Leaf-) Warbler - hi
     
113. Hume's (has been part of Yellow-browed) Warbler - hi
     
114. Arctic Warbler (subspecies borealis) - hi
     
115. Blue-and-white Flycatcher - hn,hi
     
116. Asian Brown Flycatcher - hi
     
117. Dark-sided (or Siberian) Flycatcher - hi
     
118. Grey-streaked (or -spotted) Flycatcher - hi
     
119. Mugimaki Flycatcher (r/JA) - hi
     
120. Narcissus Flycatcher - hi
     
121. Tricolored (or Yellow-rumped) Flycatcher (r/JA) - hi
     
122. Long-tailed Tit - hn
     
123. Varied Tit - hn
     
124. Coal Tit - hn
     
125. Great Tit - hn
     
126. Eurasian Nuthatch - hn
     
127. Japanese White-eye - hn,hi
     
128. Bull-headed Shrike - hn,hi
     
129. Brown Shrike - hi
     
130. Tiger (or Thick-billed) Shrike - hi
     
131. Eurasian Jay - hn
     
132. Azure-winged Magpie - hn
     
133. Carrion Crow - hn,hi
     
134. Large-billed Crow - hn,hi
     
135. Red (or Chestnut) -cheeked (or Violet-backed) Myna (or Starling) - hn,hi
     
136. Grey (or White-cheeked) Starling - hn
     
137. Eurasian Tree Sparrow - hn
     
138. Black-naped Oriole (r/JA) - hi
     
139. Oriental (or Grey-capped) Greenfinch - hn,hi
     
140. Eurasian Siskin - hi
     
141. Eurasian Bullfinch - hi
     
142. Japanese Grosbeak - hn,hi
     
143. Hawfinch - hn,hi
     
144. (Japanese) Grey Bunting - hi
     
145. Black-faced Bunting - hi
     
146. (Japanese) Yellow Bunting (t3) - hi
     
147. (Siberian) Meadow Bunting - hn
     
148. Yellow-breasted Bunting - hi
     
149. Chestnut Bunting (r/JA) - hi
     
150. Rustic Bunting - hi
     
151. Tristram's Bunting (r/JA) - hi
     
152. Japanese Reed Bunting - hn