Dates:

May 17-30, 2005
  - on the main Japanese island of Honshu (hn)
  - on the small Hegura Island, off western Honshu in the Sea of Japan (hi), 
May 19-21, & including the ferry to/from the island   
  - on the southern Japanese islands in the Nansei Shoto of Okinawa (ok) 
  & Amami (am), with a pelagic trip in between (nsp)
  - on the island of Kyushu (ky)   

Codes:
     
(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. Great Crested Grebe - hn
   
   
3. Bulwer's Petrel - nsp
   
   
4. Streaked Shearwater - am, hi, ky, nsp
   
   
5. Short-tailed Shearwater - nsp
   
   
6. Great Cormorant - hn
   
   
7. Temminck's (or Japanese) Cormorant - hn,hi
   
   
8. Pelagic Cormorant - hi
   
   
9. Cinnamon Bittern - ok
   
   
10. Black-crowned Night-Heron - hn,hi,ok
    
    
11. Striated Heron - ok,ky
    
    
12. Cattle Egret - hi,ok,am
    
    
13. Pacific (or Eastern) Reef-Heron - ok
    
    
14. Little Egret - hn,ok,am
    
    
15. Intermediate Egret - hi,ok,am
    
    
16. Great Egret - hn,hi,ok,am,ky
    
    
17. Grey Heron - hn,hi,ok,am,ky
    
    
18. Mute Swan (i) - hn
    
    
19. Mallard - hi,ky
    
    
20. Spot-billed Duck - hn,hi
    
    
21. Osprey - hn,ok
    
    
22. Oriental Honey-Buzzard - hi
    
    
23. Black (-eared) Kite - hn,hi,ky
    
    
24. Japanese (or Lesser) Sparrowhawk - am
    
    
25. Common Buzzard - hn
    
    
26. Peregrine Falcon - hi
    
    
27. Chinese Bamboo Partridge (i) - ky
    
    
28. Okinawa Rail (e) - ok
    
    
29. White-breasted Waterhen - ok
    
    
30. Moorhen (or Common Gallinule) - am,ok
    
    
31. Eurasian/Common Coot - hn
    
    
32. Kentish Plover - am  (called Snowy Plover in North America)
    
    
33. Mongolian Plover (or Lesser Sandplover) - am
    
    
34. Greater Sandplover (r/JA) - am
    
    
35. Pacific Golden Plover - hn,hi
    
    
36. Red-necked (or Rufous-necked) Stint - am
    
    
37. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper - am
    
    
38. Sanderling - am
    
    
39. (Ruddy) Turnstone - hn
    
    
40. Common Snipe - am  (no longer considered conspecific with what's now the Wilson's Snipe of North America)
    
    
41. Common Greenshank - ok
    
    
42. Marsh Sandpiper - am
    
    
43. Wood Sandpiper - ok
    
    
44. Common Sandpiper - hi
    
    
45. Bar-tailed Godwit - am
    
    
46. Whimbrel - am
    
    
47. Terek Sandpiper - am
    
    
48. Grey-tailed (or Polynesian) Tattler - hi,ok,am
    
    
49. Red-necked Phalarope - hi
    
    
50. Black-tailed Gull - hn,hi
    
    
51. Vega (form of the Herring) Gull - hi
    
    
52. Black-naped Tern - ok
    
    
53. Roseate Tern (nt) - ok
    
    
54. Little Tern - hn,ok,am
    
    
55. Feral Pigeon (i) - hn,hi,ok,nsp,am
    
    
56. Rufous (or Oriental) Turtle-Dove - hn,hi,ok,am,ky
    
    
57. Japanese (or White-bellied) Green Pigeon - ky
    
    
58. Whistling (or Formosa) Green-Pigeon - ok,am
    
    
59. Common Cuckoo - hn,hi,ky
    
    
60. Oriental (or Himalayan) Cuckoo - ky
    
    
61. Lesser Cuckoo - hi,ky
    
    
62. Japanese (formerly part of Collared) Scops-Owl - hi
    
    
63. Ryukyu Scops-Owl - am
    
    
64. Brown Hawk-Owl - hi,am
     
65. a swift with 3 English names, either:
    Pacific, or White-rumped, or Fork-tailed Swift - hi
    
    
66. Ruddy Kingfisher - ok,am,ky
    
    
67. Black-capped Kingfisher (r/JA) - hi
    
    
68. Eurasian Kingfisher - am
    
    
69. Dollarbird - hi
    
    
70. (Eurasian) Hoopoe (r/JA) - hi
    
    
71. Japanese Green Woodpecker (e) - hn,ky
    
    
72. Okinawa (or Pryer's) Woodpecker (t1) (e) - ok
    
    
73. Great Spotted Woodpecker - hn,ky
    
    
74. White-backed Woodpecker - ky
    
    
75. Amami (or Owston's) Woodpecker (t3) (e) - am (has been considered a subspecies of the White-backed Woodpecker) 
    
    
76. Japanese) Pygmy Woodpecker - hn,am,ky
    
    
77. Fairy Pitta (t3) - ky
    
    
78. (Japanese) Skylark - hn
    
    
79. (Barn) Swallow - hn,hi,ok,ky
    
    
80. Pacific Swallow - ok,am
    
    
81. Red-rumped Swallow - hi
    
    
82. Asian House Martin - hn
    
    
83. Richard's Pipit (r/JA) - hi
    
    
84. Olive-backed Pipit (has also been called Indian Tree Pipit) - hi
    
    
85. Yellow Wagtail (the subspecies simillima) - hi
    
    
86. Grey Wagtail - hn,hi,ky
    
    
87. Black-backed Wagtail - hn,hi
    
    
88. Japanese Wagtail - hn
    
    
89. Chinese (or Light-vented) Bulbul - ok
    
    
90. Brown-eared Bulbul - hn,ok,am,ky
    
    
91. Ashy Minivet - hn
    
    
92. Ryukyu Minivet - ok,am,ky
    
    
93. (Bohemian) Waxwing - hn
    
    
94. (Northern) Wren - hn,ky  (called Winter Wren in North America)
    
    
95. Japanese Robin - ky
    
    
96. Ryukyu Robin - ok,am
    
    
97. Siberian Blue Robin - hn,hi
    
    
98. Siberian Rubythroat - hi
    
    
99. Blue Rock Thrush - hn,hi,ok,am (red-bellied form)
    
    
100. White-throated Rock Thrush (r/JA) - hi
     
     
101. Amami Thrush (t1) (e) - am
     
     
102. Siberian (Ground) Thrush - hi
     
     
103. Brown Thrush - hn
     
     
104. Eye-browed (or Grey-headed) Thrush - hi
     
     
105. Dusky Thrush - hi
     
     
106. Japanese Bush Warbler - hn,hi,ok,ky
     
     
107. Zitting Cisticola (has been called Fan-tailed Warbler) - hn,ok,am,ky
     
     
108. Gray's Grasshopper-Warbler - hi
     
     
109. Marsh Grassbird (or Japanese Marsh Warbler) (t3)  - hn
     
     
110. Eastern (or Oriental) Great Reed Warbler - hn,hi
     
     
111. Black-browed (or Schenk's) Reed Warbler - hi
     
     
112. Eastern Crowned (Willow-, or Leaf-) Warbler - hi
     
     
113. Sikhalin (or Pale-legged) (Willow-, or Leaf-) Warbler - hi
     
     
114. Arctic Warbler (subspecies borealis) - hi
     
     
115. Blue-and-white Flycatcher - hn,hi,ky
     
     
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. Red-throated (has been part of Red-breasted) Flycatcher (r/JA) - hi
     
     
121. Narcissus Flycatcher - hn,hi,ky  (IN PHOTOGRAPH AT TOP OF LIST)
     
     
122. Ryukyu (has been part of Narcissus) Flycatcher (t2) (e) - am
     
     
123. Long-tailed Tit - ky
     
     
124. Willow Tit - hn,ky
      
125. Varied Tit - hn,ok,am,ky
     
     
126. Coal Tit - hn,ky
     
     
127. Great Tit - hn,ok,am,ky
     
     
128. Eurasian Nuthatch - hn
     
     
129. Japanese White-eye - hn,hi,ok,am
     
     
130. Bull-headed Shrike - hn,hi,ky
     
     
131. Brown Shrike - hi
     
     
132. Tiger (or Thick-billed) Shrike - hi
     
     
133. Eurasian Jay - hn,ky
     
     
134. Lidth's Jay (t3) (e) - am
     
     
135. Carrion Crow - hn
     
     
136. Large-billed Crow - hn,hi,ok,am,ky
     
     
137. Red (or Chestnut) -cheeked (or Violet-backed) Myna (or Starling) - hi
     
     
138. Grey (or White-cheeked) Starling - hn,hi,ky
     
     
139. Eurasian Tree Sparrow - hn,ok,am,ky
     
     
140. Black-naped Oriole (r/JA) - hi
     
     
141. Oriental (or Grey-capped) Greenfinch - hn,hi
     
     
142. Eurasian Siskin - hi
     
     
143. Japanese Grosbeak - hn,hi,ky
     
     
144. Hawfinch - hi
     
     
145. (Japanese) Grey Bunting - hi
     
     
146. Black-faced Bunting - hi
     
     
147. (Siberian) Meadow Bunting - hn,ky
     
     
148. Yellow-breasted Bunting - hi
     
     
149. Yellow-throated Bunting - hi
     
     
150. Rustic Bunting - hi
     
     
151. Japanese Reed Bunting - hn
     
     
152. Red-billed Leiothrix (i) - ky