Dates:

January 8-21, 2008


Codes:
   
     on Honshu:   hn
     on Hokkaido:  hk
     on Kyushu:  ky
     during the 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 List 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 '08 Japan Winter Birding Tour follows the bird-list below.

List of Japanese Butterflies

Upcoming FONT Birding & Nature Tours in Japan

1. Little Grebe - hn,ky
   Tachybaptus ruficollis
   
   
2. Horned Grebe - hn
   Podiceps auritus
   
   
3. Red-necked Grebe - hk
   Podiceps grisegena
   
    
4. Great Crested Grebe - hn,ky
   Podiceps cristatus
   
   
5. Great Cormorant - hn
   Phalacrocorax carbo
   
   
6. Japanese (or Temminck's) Cormorant - hn,ky
   Phalacrocorax capillatus
   
   
7. Pelagic Shag (or Cormorant) - hn,hk
   Leucocarbo pelagicus
   
   
8. Red-faced Shag (or Cormorant) - hk
   Leucocarbo urile
   
   
9. Little Egret - hn,ky
   Egretta garzetta
   
   
10. Great Egret - hn,ky
    Ardea alba
    
    
11. Grey Heron - hn,ky
    Ardea cinerea
    
    
12. Black-crowned Night Heron - ky
    Nycticorax n. nycticorax
    
    
13. Black-faced Spoonbill (t2) (r/JA) - ky
    Platalea minor
    
    
14. Eurasian Spoonbill  (r/JA) - ky 
    Platalea leucorodia
    
    
15. Whooper Swan - hn,hk
    Cygnus cygnus
    
    
16. Mute Swan (i/JA) - hn
    Cygnus olor
    
    
17. Common Shelduck - ky
    Tadorna tadorna
    
    
18. Mandarin Duck - ky
    Aix galericulata
    
    
19. Eurasian Wigeon - hn,ky
    Anas Penelope
    
    
20. Falcated Duck - hn
    Anas falcata
    
    
21. Eurasian Teal - hn,ky
    Anas crecca
    
    
22. Mallard - hn,hk,ky
    Anas platyrhynchos
    
    
23. Eastern Spot-billed Duck - hn,ky
    Anas zonorhyncha
    
    
24. Gadwall - hn
    Anas strepera
    
    
25. Northern Pintail - hn,hk,ky
    Anas acuta
    
    
26. Northern Shoveler - hn,ky
    Anas clypeata
    
    
27. Common Pochard - hn,ky
    Aythya ferina
    
    
28. Tufted Duck - hn,hk,ky
    Aythya fuligula
    
    
29. Greater Scaup - hn,hk
    Aythya marila
    
    
30. Harlequin Duck - hk
    Histrionicus histrionicus
    
    
31. Long-tailed Duck - hk
    Clangula hyemalis
    
    
32. American Scoter - pt,hk
    Melanitta americana
    
    
33. "Stejneger's" White-winged Scoter - hk
    Melanitta deglandi stejnegeri
    
      
34. Common Goldeneye - hk
    Bucephala clangula
    
    
35. Smew - hk
    Mergellus (formerly Mergus) albellus
    
    
36. Red-breasted Merganser - hk
    Mergus serrator
    
    
37. Common Merganser - hk
    Mergus merganser
    
    
38. Osprey - hn,ky
    Pandion haliaetus
    
    
39. Black (-eared) Kite - hn,hk,ky
    Milvus migrans lineatus
    
    
40. White-tailed Eagle (nt) - hk
    Haliaeetus albicilla
    
    
41. Steller's Sea Eagle (t3) - hk
    Haliaeetus pelagicus
    
    
42. Greater Spotted Eagle (t3) (r/JA) - ky
    Aquila clanga
    
    
43. Eurasian Sparrowhawk - hn,hk
    Accipiter nisus
    
    
44. Northern Harrier - hn
    Circus c. cyaneus
    
    
45. Eastern Marsh Harrier - hn
    Circus spilonotus
    
    
46. Common Buzzard - hn,hk,ky
    Buteo buteo japonicus  (resident subspecies)
    
    
47. Roughleg  (Rough-legged Buzzard or Rough-legged Hawk) - hn 
    Buteo lagopus
    
    
48. Common Kestrel - ky
    Falco tinnunculus
    
    
49. Peregrine Falcon - hn
    Falco peregrinus japonensis
    
    
50. Common Moorhen - hn
    Gallinula chloropus
    
    
51. Eurasian Coot - hn,ky
    Fulica atra
    
    
52. Hooded Crane (t3) - ky
    Grus monachus
    
    
53. Common Crane (r/JA) - ky
    Grus grus lilfordi
    
    
54. Sandhill Crane (r/JA) - ky
    Grus canadensis
    
    
55. White-naped Crane (t3) - ky
    Grus vipio
    
    
56. Red-crowned Crane (also called Japanese Crane) (t2) - hk 
    Grus japonensis
    
    
57. Pied Avocet  (r/JA) - ky
    Recurvirostra avosetta
    
    
58. Black-winged Stilt - ky
    Himantopus himantopus
    
    
59. Northern Lapwing - hn,ky
    Vanellus vanellus
    
    
60. Dunlin - ky
    Calidris alpina
    
    
61. Common Greenshank - ky
    Tringa nebularia
    
    
62. Green Sandpiper - ky
    Tringa ochropus
    
    
63. Common Sandpiper - hn,ky
    Actitis hypoleucos
    
    
64. Common Snipe - ky
    Gallinago gallinago
    
    
65. Common Black-headed Gull - hn,ky
    Larus ridibundus
    
    
66. Black-tailed Gull - hn,ky
    Larus crassirostris
    
    
67. "Kamchatka Gull"  (a race of the Mew, or Common, Gull) - hn,hk
    Larus canus kamtschatschensis
    
    
68. Vega Gull  (has been considered a race of the Herring Gull) - hn,pt,hk,ky
    Larus vegae
    
    
69. Slaty-backed Gull - hn,pt,hk,ky
    Larus schistisagus
    
    
70. Glaucous-winged Gull - hn
    Larus glaucescens
    
    
71. Glaucous Gull - hn,pt,hk
    Larus hyperboreus
    
    
72. Black-legged Kittiwake - pt
    Rissa tridactyla
    
    
73. Common (or Feral) Pigeon (i/JA) - hn,hk,ky
    Columba livia
    
    
74. Oriental Turtle Dove - hn,ky
    Streotopelia orientalis
    
    
75. Blakiston's Fish-Owl (t2) (r/JA) - hk
    Bubo (formerly Keptula) blakistoni  
    
    
76. Ural Owl - hk
    Strix uralensis
    
    
77. Common Kingfisher - hn
    Alcedo atthis
    
    
78. Grey-headed Woodpecker - hk
    Picus canus
    
     
79. Great Spotted Woodpecker - hk
    Dendrocopos (formerly Picoides) major japonicus
    
    
80. Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker - hk,ky
    Dendrocopos (formerly Picoides) kizuki
    
    
81. Black Woodpecker - hk
    Dryocopos martius
    
    
82. Eurasian Skylark - hn,hk,ky
    Alauda arvensis japonica (& probably another subspecies)
    
    
83. Asian House Martin - ky
    Delichon dasypus
    
    
84. Barn Swallow - hn,ky
    Hirundo rustica
    
    
85. Olive-backed Pipit - ky
    Anthus hodgsoni
    
    
86. "Siberian" Buff-bellied Pipit - hn,ky  (called American Pipit in North America, was called Water Pipit)
    Anthus rubescens japonicus
    
    
87. Grey Wagtail - ky
    Motacilla cinerea
    
    
88. White Wagtail - hn,hk,ky
    Motacilla alba lugens
    
    
89. Japanese Wagtail (e/JA) - hn,ky
    Motacilla grandis
    
    
90. Brown-eared Bulbul - hn,hk,ky
    Microscelis (formerly Hysipetes) amaurotis
    
    
91. Daurian Redstart - hn,ky
    Phoenicurus auroreus
    
    
92. Bohemian Waxwing - hk
    Bombycilla garrulus
    
    
93. Brown Dipper - hk,ky
    Cinclus pallasii
    
    
94. Brown-headed Thrush - hn
    Turdus chrysolaus
    
    
95. Pale Thrush - ky
    Turdus pallidus
    
    
96. Dusky Thrush - hn,hk,ky
    Turdus eunomus
    
    
97. Japanese Bush Warbler - ky
    Cettia diphone
    
    
98. Zitting Cisticola - ky
    Cisticola juncidis
    
    
99. Long-tailed Bushtit  (has been called Long-tailed Tit) - ky
    Aegithalos caudatus
    
    
100. Marsh Tit - hk
     Poecile (formerly Parus) palustris
     
     
101. Varied Tit - ky,hk
     Poecile (formerly Parus) varius
      
     
102. Coal Tit - ky
     Periparus (formerly Parus) ater
     
     
103. Great Tit - hk
     Parus major
     
     
104. Eurasian Nuthatch - hk
     Sitta europaea  
     
     
105. Japanese White-eye - ky
     Zosterops japonica
     
     
106. Bull-headed Shrike - hn,ky
     Lanius bucephalus
     
     
107. Eurasian Jay - hk
     Garrulus glandarius
     
     
108. Rook - ky
     Corvus frugilegus
     
     
109. Daurian Jackdaw  (r/JA) - ky
     Corvus dauuricus
     
      
110. Carrion Crow - hn,hk,ky
     Corvus corone orientalis
     
     
111. Large-billed Crow - hn,hk,ky
     Corvus macrorhynchos japonensis
     
     
112. Northern Raven - hk
     Corvus corax
     
      
113. White-cheeked Starling - hn,ky
     Sturnus cineraceus
     
     
114. Eurasian Tree Sparrow - hn,hk,ky
     Passer montanus
     
     
115. Brambling - hk
     Fringilla montifringilla
     
     
116. Grey-capped (or Oriental) Greenfinch - hn,hk,ky
     Carduelis sinica
     
     
117. Asian Rosy Finch - hk
     Leucosticte arctoa
     
      
118. Common Redpoll - hk
     Carduelis flammea 
     
      
119. Hawfinch - hn,hk
     Caccothraustes caccothraustes japonicus
     
     
120. Black-faced Bunting - hn,ky
     Emberiza spodocephala
     
     
121. Gray Bunting - ky
     Emberiza variabilis
     
     
122. Meadow Bunting - hn,ky
     Emberiza ciodes
     
     
123. Rustic Bunting - hn,hk,ky
     Emberiza rustica
     
     
124. Common Reed Bunting - hn
     Emberiza schoenicius 
     
     

Mammals during FONT tour in Japan 
in January 2008  
 

hk: on Hokkaido
ky: on Kyushu


 1. Red Fox - hk

 2. Red Squirrel - hk

 3. Sika Deer - hk,ky

 4. "Kurile" Harbor Seal - hk