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

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