Dates:

May 7-13, 2006
  - on the main Japanese island of Honshu (hn)
  - on the small Hegura Island, off western Honshu in the Sea of Japan (hi) 
  - pelagically, from the ferry between mainland Honshu & Hegura Is. (p)    
   

Codes:
     
(t): a globally threatened or rare species, designated by Birdlife International.
  (t1): critical     (t2): endangered     (t3): vulnerable
(nt): a near-threatened species globally.

(JPr): rare in Japan
(JPe): endemic to Japan
(JPi): introduced in Japan

Links:

Cumulative Lists of Birds during our Japan Tours

List of Japanese Mammals

List of Japanese Butterflies

Upcoming Tours in Japan

1. Pacific Loon - p
   
   
2. Little Grebe - hn 
   
   
3. Streaked Shearwater - p
   
   
4. Great Cormorant - hn
   
   
5. Temminck's (or Japanese) Cormorant - hn, hi, p
   
   
6. Pelagic Cormorant - hi, p
   
   
7. Black-crowned Night-Heron - hn
   
   
8. Chinese Pond Heron  (JPr) - hi
   
   
9. Cattle Egret - hn, hi
   
   
10. Chinese (or Swinhoe's) Egret  (t3) (JPr) - hi
    
    
11. Little Egret - hi
    
    
12. Intermediate Egret - hi
    
    
13. Great Egret - hn, hi
    
    
14. Grey Heron - hn, hi
    
    
15. Purple Heron  (JPr) - hi
    
    
16. Eurasian Wigeon - hn, hi
    
    
17. Eurasian (or Common) Teal - hn
    
    
18. Spot-billed Duck - hn, hi
    
    
19. Tufted Duck - hn
    
    
20. Harlequin Duck -  hn 
    
    
21. Smew - hn
    
    
22. Osprey - hn
    
    
23. Black (-eared) Kite - hn, hi
    
    
24. Japanese (or Lesser) Sparrowhawk - hi
    
    
25. Grey-faced Buzzard - hi
    
    
26. Common Buzzard - hn
    
    
27. Eurasian Kestrel - hn
    
    
28. Northern Hobby - hi
    
    
29. Peregrine Falcon - hi
    
    
30. Green Pheasant - hn 
    
    
31. Eurasian (or Common) Coot - hi
    
    
32. Black-winged Stilt - hn
    
    
33. Black-bellied (or Grey ) Plover - hn
    
    
34. Long-billed Plover - hn
    
    
35. Mongolian Plover (or Lesser Sandplover) - hn
    
    
36. Great Knot - hn
    
    
37. Red-necked (or Rufous-necked) Stint - hn, hi
    
    
38. Dunlin -  hn 
    
    
39. (Ruddy) Turnstone - hn, hi
    
    
40. Common Snipe - hn, hi 
    
    
41. Latham's Snipe - hi
    
    
42. Common Sandpiper - hn, hi
    
    
43. Green Sandpiper - hi
    
    
44. Bar-tailed Godwit - hn
    
    
45. Black-tailed Godwit - hi
    
    
46. Whimbrel - hn
    
    
47. Grey-tailed (or Polynesian) Tattler - hn, hi 
    
    
48. Red-necked Phalarope - hi, p
    
    
49. Black-tailed Gull - hn, hi, p
    
    
50. Vega (form of the Herring) Gull - hn, hi
    
    
51. Slaty-backed Gull - hi
    
    
52. Glaucous-winged Gull - hi
    
    
53. Common Tern - hn, p
    
    
54. Little Tern - hn
    
    
55. Japanese Murrelet (t3) - p
    
    
56. Rhinoceros Auklet - p
    
    
57. Feral Pigeon (i) - hn ,hi
    
    
58. Rufous (or Oriental) Turtle-Dove - hn, hi
    
    
59. Common Cuckoo - hi
    
    
60. Oriental (or Himalayan) Cuckoo - hi
    
    
61. Lesser Cuckoo - hi
    
    
62. Japanese (formerly part of Collared) Scops-Owl - hi
    
    
63. Jungle (or Grey) Nightjar - hi
    
     
64. a swift with 3 English names, either:
    Pacific, or White-rumped, or Fork-tailed Swift - hn
    
    
65. Greater Pied (or Crested) Kingfisher - hn
    
    
66. Dollarbird - hi
    
    
67. Japanese) Pygmy Woodpecker - hn
    
    
68. (Japanese) Skylark - hn
    
    
69. (Barn) Swallow - hn, hi
    
    
70. Asian House Martin - hn
    
    
71. "Siberian" Buff-bellied Pipit - hi
    (same species as American Pipit) 
    
    
72. Yellow Wagtail (the subspecies simillima) - hi
    
    
73. Grey Wagtail - hn
    
    
74. Black-backed Wagtail - hn, hi
    
    
75. Japanese Wagtail - hn
    
    
76. Brown-eared Bulbul - hn
    
    
77. Ashy Minivet - hn, hi
    
    
78. Brown Dipper - hn
    
    
79. (Northern) Wren - hn  
    (called Winter Wren in North America)
    
    
80. Swinhoe's (or Rufous-tailed) Robin  (JPr) - hi
    
    
81. Siberian Blue Robin - hi
    
    
82. Siberian Rubythroat - hi
    
    
83. Red-flanked Bluetail - hi
    (also called Siberian Bluechat
     or Orange-flanked Bush-Robin)
    
    
84. Siberian Stonechat - hn, hi
    
     
85. Blue Rock Thrush - hi 
    (red-bellied form)
    
    
86. White's (Ground) Thrush - hi
    
    
87. Siberian (Ground) Thrush - hi
    
    
88. Japanese (Grey) Thrush - hn, hi
    
    
89. Brown Thrush - hn
    
    
90. Eye-browed (or Grey-headed) Thrush - hi
    
    
91. Dusky Thrush - hn, hi
    
    
92. Japanese Bush Warbler - hn, hi
    
    
93. Eastern (or Oriental) Great Reed Warbler - hn, hi
    
    
94. Black-browed (or Schenk's) Reed Warbler - hi
    
    
95. Eastern Crowned (Willow-, or Leaf-) Warbler - hi
    
    
96. Sikhalin (or Pale-legged) (Willow-, or Leaf-) Warbler - hi
    
    
97. Arctic Warbler (subspecies borealis) - hi
    
    
98. Blue-and-white Flycatcher - hn, hi 
    
    
99. Asian Brown Flycatcher - hi
    
    
100. Dark-sided (or Siberian) Flycatcher - hi
     
     
101. Grey-streaked (or -spotted) Flycatcher - hi
     
     
102. Mugimaki Flycatcher (r/JA) - hi
     
     
103. Tricolored (or Yellow-rumped) Flycatcher (JPr) - hi
     
     
104. Narcissus Flycatcher - hn, hi  (IN PHOTOGRAPH AT TOP OF LIST)
     
     
105. Japanese Paradise Flycatcher - hi  
     
     
106. Long-tailed Tit - hn
     
     
107. Willow Tit - hn
     
      
108. Varied Tit - hn
     
     
109. Coal Tit - hn
     
     
110. Great Tit - hn
     
     
111. Eurasian Nuthatch - hn
     
     
112. Japanese White-eye - hn
     
     
113. Bull-headed Shrike - hn
     
     
114. Brown Shrike - hi
     
     
115. Eurasian Jay - hn
     
     
116. Azure-winged Magpie - hn 
     
     
117. (Eurasian or Spotted) Nutcracker  - hn 
     
     
118. Rook - hi
     
     
119. "Carrion" Eurasian Crow - hn, hi
     
     
120. Large-billed Crow - hn, hi
     
     
121. Red (or Chestnut) -cheeked 
      (or Violet-backed) Myna (or Starling) - hn, hi
      
     
122. Grey (or White-cheeked) Starling - hn
     
     
123. Eurasian Tree Sparrow - hn
     
     
124. Brambling - hi
     
      
125. Oriental (or Grey-capped) Greenfinch - hn, hi
     
     
126. Eurasian Siskin - hi
     
     
127. Eurasian (or Common) Bullfinch - hn
     
     
128. Japanese Grosbeak - hn
     
     
129. Hawfinch - hi
     
     
130. Black-faced Bunting - hn, hi
     
     
131. Japanese Yellow Bunting (t3) - hi
     
     
132. (Siberian) Meadow Bunting - hn
     
     
133. Yellow-throated Bunting - hi
     
     
134. Tristram's Bunting  (JPr) - hi
     
     
135. Rustic Bunting - hi
     
     
136. Reed Bunting - hi