Birds found during the 
FONT 2008 Winter Birding Tour 
in
Japan 


List compiled by Armas Hill



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


Bird-List:

  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 
i
n 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