Dates:

December 10-18, 2007


Codes:
   
     on Honshu:   hn
     on Hokkaido:  hk
     on Kyushu:  ky
     during the day-long ferry pelagic trip between Honshu & Hokkaido: pt 
       

 
(t): a globally threatened or rare species, designated by Birdlife International
(t1): critical     (t2): endangered     (t3): vulnerable
(nt): a near-threatened species globally
(i/JA):    introduced species in Japan
(e/JA):   endemic to Japan    
(r/JA):    rare in Japan
(h): heard only


UPPER RIGHT PHOTO:  WHITE-NAPED CRANE IN KYUSHU, JAPAN

Links:

Cumulative Lists of Birds during FONT Japan Tours

In the cumulative lists of birds, scientific names are given & subspecies are noted.

List of Japanese Mammals

A list of Mammals during our '07 Japan Late-Fall Birding & Nature Tour follows the bird-list below.

List of Japanese Butterflies

Upcoming FONT Birding & Nature Tours in Japan

1. Pacific Loon - pt
   Gavia pacifica
     
   
2. Little Grebe - ky
   Tachybaptus ruficollis
   
   
3. Horned Grebe - hk
   Podiceps auritus
   
   
4. Laysan Albatross - pt
   Phoebastria (formerly Dioimedea) immutabilis
   
   
5. Northern Fulmar - pt
   Fulmarus glacialis
   
   
6. Bonin Petrel - pt
   Pterodroma hypoleuca
   
   
7. Streaked Shearwater - pt
   Calonectris leucomelas 
   
   
8. Short-tailed Shearwater - pt
   Puffinus tenuirostris
   
   
9. Tristram's (or Sooty) Storm Petrel - pt
   Oceanodroma tristrami
   
   
10. Fork-tailed Storm Petrel - pt
    Oceanodroma furcata
    
    
11. Great Cormorant - hn
    Phalacrocorax carbo
    
    
12. Japanese (or Temminck's) Cormorant - ky
    Phalacrocorax capillatus
    
    
13. Pelagic Shag (or Cormorant) - pt,hk
    Leucocarbo pelagicus
    
    
14. "Eastern" Cattle Egret - ky
    Bublucus ibis coromandus
    
    
15. Little Egret - ky
    Egretta garzetta
    
    
16. Yellow-billed (or Intermediate) Egret - ky
    Egretta intermedia
    
    
17. Great Egret - hn,ky
    Ardea alba
    
    
18. Grey Heron - ky
    Ardea cinerea
    
    
19. Black-crowned Night Heron - ky
    Nycticorax nycticorax
    
    
20. Black-faced Spoonbill (t2) (r/JA) - ky
    Platalea minor
    
    
21. Eurasian Spoonbill  (r/JA) - ky 
    Platalea leucorodia
    
    
22. Whooper Swan - hk
    Cygnus cygnus
    
    
23. Mandarin Duck - ky
    Aix galericulata
    
    
24. Eurasian Wigeon - ky,hn,hk
    Anas Penelope
    
    
25. Falcated Duck - hk
    Anas falcata
    
    
26. Eurasian Teal - ky,hk
    Anas crecca
    
    
27. Mallard - ky,hn,hk
    Anas olatyrhynchos
    
    
28. Eastern Spot-billed Duck - ky
    Anas zonorhyncha
    
    
29. Northern Pintail - hn,hk
    Anas acuta
    
    
30. Northern Shoveler - ky,hk
    Anas clypeata
    
    
31. Common Pochard - ky,hn
    Aythya ferina
    
    
32. Greater Scaup - ky,hk
    Aythya marila
    
    
33. Harlequin Duck - hk
    Histrionicus histrionicus
    
    
34. Long-tailed Duck - hk
    Clangula hyemalis
    
    
35. American Scoter - hk
    Melanitta americana
    
    
36. "Stejneger's" White-winged Scoter - hk
    Melanitta deglandi stejnegeri
    
      
37. Common Goldeneye - hk
    Bucephala clangula
    
    
38. Smew - hk
    Mergellus (formerly Mergus) albellus
    
    
39. Red-breasted Merganser - hk
    Mergus serrator
    
    
40. Common Merganser - hk
    Mergus merganser
    
    
41. Osprey - ky
    Pandion haliaetus
    
    
42. Black (-eared) Kite - ky,hk
    Milvus migrans lineatus
    
    
43. White-tailed Eagle (nt) - hk
    Haliaeetus albicilla
    
    
44. Steller's Sea-Eagle (t3) - hk
    Haliaeetus pelagicus
    
    
45. Northern Goshawk - hk
    Accipiter gentilis
    
    
46. Common Buzzard - hk
    Buteo buteo japonicus  (resident subspecies)
    
    
47. Roughleg  (Rough-legged Buzzard or Rough-legged Hawk) - hk 
    Buteo lagopus
    
    
48. Mountain (or Hodgson's) Hawk-Eagle - hk
    Spizaetus nipalensis orientalis  (resident Japanese subspecies)
     
    
49. Common Kestrel - ky
    Falco tinnunculus
    
    
50. Peregrine Falcon - hn
    Falco peregrinus japonensis
    
    
51. (Japanese) Green Pheasant - ky
    Phasianus versicolor
    
    
52. Common Moorhen - ky
    Gallinula chloropus
    
    
53. Eurasian Coot - ky
    Fulica atra
    
    
54. Hooded Crane (t3) - ky
    Grus monachus
    
    
55. Sandhill Crane (r/JA) - ky
    Grus canadensis
    
    
56. White-naped Crane (t3) - ky
    Grus vipio
    
    
57. Red-crowned Crane (also called Japanese Crane) (t2) - hk 
    Grus japonensis
    
    
58. Black-winged Stilt - hn
    Himantopus himantopus
    
    
59. Common Ringed Plover - hn
    Charadrius hiaticula
    
    
60. Little Ringed Plover - ky
    Charadrius dubius
    
    
61. Kentish Plover - hn
    Charadrius alexandrinus
    
    
62. Grey (or Black-belled) Plover - hn
    Pluvialis s. squatarola
    
    
63. Northern Lapwing - ky
    Vanellus vanellus
    
    
64. Temminck's Stint - ky
    Calidris temminckii
    
    
65. Dunlin - ky,hn
    Calidris alpina
    
    
66. Green Sandpiper - ky
    Tringa ochropus
    
    
67. Common Sandpiper - ky,hn
    Actitis hypoleucos
    
    
68. Eurasian Curlew - hn
    Numenius arquata
    
    
69. Pomarine Skua - pt
    Stercorarius pomarinus
    
    
70. Common Black-headed Gull - hn,hk
    Larus ridibundus
    
    
71. Black-tailed Gull - ky,pt
    Larus crassirostris
    
    
72. Kamchatka  (race of Mew, or Common, Gull) - pt,hk
    Larus canus kamtschatschensis
    
    
73. Vega Gull  (has been considered a race of the Herring Gull) - ky,pt,hk
    Larus vegae
    
    
74. "Heuglin's" Lesser Black-backed Gull - ky
    
    
75. "Mongolian" Yellow-legged Gull - ky
    
    
76. Slaty-backed Gull - ky,pt,hk
    Larus schistisagus
    
    
77. Glaucous-winged Gull - pt
    Larus glaucescens
    
    
78. Glaucous Gull - pt,hk
    Larus hyperboreus
    
    
79. Black-legged Kittiwake - pt
    Rissa tridactyla
    
    
80. Pigeon Guillemot - pt
    Cepphus columba snowi
    
    
81. Ancient Murrelet - pt
    Synthliboramphus a. antiquus
    
    
82. Japanese Murrelet (t3) (e/JA) - pt
    Synthliboramphus wumizusume
    
    
83. Common (or Feral) Pigeon (i/JA) - ky,pt,hk
    Columba livia
    
    
84. Oriental Turtle Dove - ky
    Streotopelia orientalis
    
    
85. Blakiston's Fish-Owl (t2) (r/JA) - hk
    Bubo blakistoni  (was genus Keptula)
    
    
86. Common Kingfisher - ky
    Alcedo atthis
    
    
87. Great Spotted Woodpecker - ky,hk
    Dendrocopos (formerly Picoides) major japonicus
    
    
88. Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker - hk
    Dendrocopos (formerly Picoides) kizuki
    
    
89. "Japanese" Eurasian Skylark - ky
    Alauda arvensis japonica
    
    
90. Barn Swallow - ky
    Hirundo rustica
    
    
91. Olive-backed Pipit - ky
    Anthus hodgsoni
    
    
92. "Siberian" Buff-bellied Pipit - ky  (called American Pipit in North America; was called Water Pipit)
    Anthus rubescens japonicus
    
    
93. Grey Wagtail - ky
    Motacilla cinerea
    
    
94. White Wagtail - ky,hn
    Motacilla alba lugens
    
    
95. Japanese Wagtail (e/JA) - ky,hk
    Motacilla grandis
    
    
96. Brown-eared Bulbul - ky,hn,hk
    Microscelis (formerly Hysipetes) amaurotis
    
    
97. Northern (or Winter) Wren - hk
    Troglodytes troglodytes fumigatus
    
    
98. Daurian Redstart - ky
    Phoenicurus auroreus
    
    
99. Pale Thrush - ky
    Turdus pallidus
    
    
100. Dusky Thrush - ky,hk
     Turdus eunomus
     
     
101. Japanese Bush Warbler - ky
     Cedttia diphone
     
     
102. Long-tailed Bushtit  (has been called Long-tailed Tit) - ky
     Aegithalos caudatus
     
     
103. Marsh Tit - hk
     Parus palustris
     
     
104. Varied Tit - ky,hk
     Parus varius
      
     
105. Coal Tit - ky
     Parus ater
     
     
106. Great Tit - ky,hk
     Parus major
     
     
107. Eurasian Nuthatch - hk
     Sitta europaea  
     
     
108. Japanese White-eye - ky
     Zosterops japonica
     
     
109. Bull-headed Shrike - ky
     Lanius bucephalus
     
     
110. Eurasian Jay - ky,hk
     Garrulus glandarius
     
     
111. Rook - ky
     Corvus frugilegus
     
     
112. Carrion Crow - ky,hk
     Corvus corone orientalis
     
     
113. Large-billed Crow - ky,hn,hk
     Corvus macrorhynchos japonensis
     
     
114. White-cheeked (or Grey) Starling - ky,hn
     Sturnus cineraceus
     
     
115. Eurasian Tree Sparrow - ky,hn,hk
     Passer montanus
     
     
116. Grey-capped (or Oriental) Greenfinch - ky
     Carduelis sinica
     
     
117. Hawfinch - hk
     Caccothraustes caccothraustes japonicus
     
     
118. Black-faced Bunting - ky
     Emberiza spodocephala
     
     
119. (Siberian) Meadow Bunting - ky
     Emberiza ciodes
     
     
120. Yellow-throated Bunting - ky
     Emberiza elegans
     
     
121. Common Reed Bunting - ky
     Emberiza schoenicius 
     

Mammals during FONT tour in Japan 
in December 2007  
 

hk: on Hokkaido
ky: on Kyushu
pt: during day-long ferry pelagic trip from Honshu to Hokkaido

(e): endemic to Japan
(i): introduced into Japan 


 1. Japanese Hare (e) - ky

 2. Japanese Marten (e) - ky

 3. Eurasian Wild Boar - ky
 
 4. Red Fox - hk

 5. Sika Deer - hk,ky

 6. Northern Fur Seal - pt