Birds found during the 
FONT 2009 Winter Birding Tour 
in
Japan 


List compiled by Armas Hill



Dates:

January 29 - February 4, 2009


Codes:

   
     on Hokkaido:   hk
     on Honshu:      hn        

 
(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


Upper right photo:  RED-CROWNED (or JAPANESE) CRANES in Hokkaido, 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 '09 Japan Winter Birding Tour follows the bird-list below.

List of Japanese Butterflies

Upcoming FONT Birding & Nature Tours in Japan


Bird-List:

  1. Pacific Loon - hk
    Gavia pacifica

  2. Horned Grebe - hk
    Podiceps auritus

  3. Great Cormorant - hn
    Phalacrocorax carbo

  4. Japanese (or Temminck's) Cormorant - hk
    Phalacrocorax capillatus

  5. Pelagic Shag (or Cormorant) - hk
    Leucocarbo pelagicus

  6. Great Egret - hk
    Ardea alba

  7. Grey Heron - hk
    Ardea cinerea

  8. Whooper Swan - hk
    Cygnus cygnus

  9. Eurasian Wigeon - hk
    Anas Penelope

  10. Falcated Duck - hk
    Anas falcata

  11. Eurasian Teal - hk
    Anas crecca

  12. Mallard - hk
    Anas platyrhynchos

  13. Eastern Spot-billed Duck - hk
    Anas zonorhyncha

  14. Northern Pintail - hk
    Anas acuta

  15. Tufted Duck - hk
    Aythya fuligula

  16. Greater Scaup - hk
    Aythya marila

  17. Harlequin Duck - hk
    Histrionicus histrionicus

  18. American Scoter - hk
    Melanitta americana

  19. "Stejneger's" White-winged Scoter - hk
    Melanitta deglandi stejnegeri

      
  20. Common Goldeneye - hk
    Bucephala clangula

  21. Red-breasted Merganser - hk
    Mergus serrator

  22. Common Merganser - hk
    Mergus merganser

  23. Black (-eared) Kite - hk,hn
    Milvus migrans lineatus

  24. White-tailed Eagle (nt) - hk
    Haliaeetus albicilla

  25. Steller's Sea Eagle (t3) - hk
    Haliaeetus pelagicus

  26. Common Buzzard - hk
    Buteo buteo japonicus  (resident subspecies)

  27. Peregrine Falcon - hk
    Falco peregrinus 

  28. Red-crowned Crane (also called Japanese Crane) (t2) - hk 
    Grus japonensis

  29. "Kamchatka Gull"  (a race of the Mew, or Common, Gull) - hk
    Larus canus kamtschatschensis

  30. Vega Gull  (has been considered a race of the Herring Gull) - hk
    Larus vegae

  31. Slaty-backed Gull - hk
    Larus schistisagus

  32. Glaucous-winged Gull - hk
    Larus glaucescens

  33. Glaucous Gull - hk
    Larus hyperboreus

  34. Spectacled Guillemot - hk
    Cepphus carbo

  35. Long-billed Murrelet - hk
    Brachyramphus perdix

  36. Common (or Feral) Pigeon (i/JA) - hk,hn
    Columba livia

  37. Oriental Turtle Dove - hn
    Streotopelia orientalis

  38. Blakiston's Fish-Owl (t2) (r/JA) - hk
    Bubo (formerly Keptula) blakistoni  

  39. Great Spotted Woodpecker - hk
    Dendrocopos (formerly Picoides) major japonicus

  40. Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker - hk,hn
    Dendrocopos (formerly Picoides) kizuki

  41. White Wagtail - hn
    Motacilla alba lugens

  42. Japanese Wagtail (e/JA) - hn
    Motacilla grandis

  43. Brown-eared Bulbul - hk,hn
    Microscelis (formerly Hysipetes) amaurotis

  44. Brown Dipper - hk
    Cinclus pallasii

  45. Pale Thrush - hn
    Turdus pallidus

  46. Dusky Thrush - hk,hn
    Turdus eunomus

  47. Japanese Bush Warbler - hn
    Cettia diphone

  48. Long-tailed Bushtit  (has been called Long-tailed Tit) - hn
    Aegithalos caudatus

  49. Marsh Tit - hk
    Poecile (formerly Parus) palustris

  50. Varied Tit - hn
    Poecile (formerly Parus) varius
     
  51. Coal Tit - hk
    Periparus (formerly Parus) ater

  52. Great Tit - hk,hn
    Parus major

  53. Eurasian Nuthatch - hk
    Sitta europaea  

  54. Japanese White-eye - hn
    Zosterops japonica

  55. Eurasian Jay - hk
    Garrulus glandarius

  56. Rook - hk  (very rare in Hokkaido) 
    Corvus frugilegus

  57. Carrion Crow - hk,hn
    Corvus corone orientalis

  58. Large-billed Crow - hk,hn
    Corvus macrorhynchos japonensis

  59. Eurasian Tree Sparrow - hk,hn
    Passer montanus

  60. Grey-capped (or Oriental) Greenfinch - hk
    Carduelis sinica

  61. Asian Rosy Finch - hk
    Leucosticte arctoa

     
  62. Hawfinch - hk,hn
    Caccothraustes caccothraustes japonicus

  63. Black-faced Bunting - hn
    Emberiza spodocephala


Mammals during the FONT tour in Japan
in January 2009
 
 

hk: on Hokkaido
ky: on Kyushu


 1. Red Fox - hk
     Vulpes vulpes 

 2. Sika Deer - hk
     Cervus nippon

 3
. "Kurile" Harbor Seal - hk
     Phoca vitulina kurilensis

 4. Pacific White-sided Dolphin - hk
     Lagenorhynchus obliquidens