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Welcome to the homepage of Japan-Birding.

Japan-Birding was established in 2012 to provide a guiding service as well as up-to-date information regarding birding in Japan.

If you are planning bird watching in Japan but are worried about the language barrier, Japan-Birding will be able to support you.
Birding tours or day trips can be planned upon your request and according to your needs.
* The "Typiical Destinations" are shown below in this page and "Birding Spots". Please find the birding sites which fit your desires.

Tours can begin in Tokyo or any other location within Japan, and Japan-Birding can support the arrangement of your trip including accommodation, transportation and a varied itinerary.
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*"Examples of Itinerary and Estimation" are shown in this page.

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***** Typical Destinations *****
* Please click the button (Dxx, Lxx) in the table to see the detail of the site.
* In the Osaka or Kyoto area, more than two days trip in the combination of the following individual trips (D2-xx) or the sites of the adjacent area will be arranged.

Area/Region	Spring (April - May)	Summer (June - August)	Autumn (September - October)	Winter (November - March)
Tokyo area	Individual or combination of; D1-2 D1-4 D1-5 D1-6 D1-8 D1-9 D1-10 D1-11 D1-14 D1-17 D1-18	Individual or combination of; D1-3 D1-4 D1-5 D1-10 D1-11 D1-12 D1-13 D1-14 D1-21 D1-24	Individual or combination of; D1-2 D1-3 D1-4 D1-5 D1-6 D1-7 D1-9 D1-10 D1-17	Individual or combination of; D1-1 D1-2 D1-3 D1-4 D1-6 D1-7 D1-8 D1-9 D1-10 D1-11 D1-13 D1-14 D1-15 D1-16 D1-17 D1-18 D1-19 D1-20 D1-22 D1-23
Osaka, Kyoto area	Combination of; D2-1 D2-3 D2-4 D2-5 D2-6 D2-7 D2-8 D2-9 D2-10	Combination of; D2-9	Combination of; D2-1 D2-3 D2-7 D2-9 D2-10	Combination of; D2-1 D2-2 D2-3 D2-4 D2-5 D2-6 D2-7 D2-9 D2-10 D2-11 D2-12
Hokkaido	L1-1 L1-6	L1-1 L1-2 L1-4 L1-7 L1-8 L1-9	L1-1 L1-10	L1-1 L1-3 L1-5 L1-11
Tohoku Region	L2-1 L2-4	L2-2 L2-4	L2-1	L2-3 L2-4
Kanto, Koshin-etsu Region	L3-1 L3-3 L3-5	L3-2 L3-6 L3-7 L3-9 L3-10	L3-1 L3-3 L3-4 L3-5	L3-8
Izu Islands, Ogasawara Islands	L4-1 L4-2	L4-3	L4-3
Tokai Region		L5-1 L5-2 L5-3	L5-4
Hokuriku Region	L6-1 L6-2 L6-3 L6-4	L6-4	L6-1 L6-2 L6-3 L6-4	L6-3 L6-5
Chugoku Region	L7-1	L7-2	L7-1	L7-3 L7-4
Shikoku	L8-1		L8-1	L8-1
Kyushu	L9-1 L9-2 L9-3 L9-4 L9-5		L9-1 L9-2 L9-3 L9-4 L9-5	L9-1 L9-2 L9-4 L9-5 L9-6
Tokara & Amami Islands	L10-1 L10-2	L10-2	L10-1 L10-2	L10-2
Okinawa Islands & Sakishima Islands	L11-1 L11-2 L11-3 L11-4	L11-1 L11-2 L11-3	L11-1 L11-2 L11-3 L11-4	L11-1 L11-2 L11-3

Day Tours in Tokyo area

D1-1. Imperial Palace (Tokyo)

- City bird-watching in the surrounding area of the Imperial Palace with Park and moats located at center of the metropolitan Tokyo.
- Best season: November to April
- Past trip report: 2012 Dec 24
Here we have chance to see
Little Grebe (winter), Great Cormorant, Grey Heron, Little Egret (winter), Mute Swan (winter), Eastern Spot-billed Duck,
Tufted Duck (winter), Common Teal (winter), Northern Shoveler (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter), Mallard (winter),
Mandarin Duck (winter), Smew (winter), Goshawk, Black Kite, Common Coot, Black-tailed Gull (winter), Vega Gull (winter),
Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter), Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, House Swift (winter), Common Kingfisher,
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Black-backed Wagtail, Indian tree pipit (winter), Daurian Redstart (winter), Japanese Bush Warbler,
Pale Thrush (winter), Dusky Thrush (winter), Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Tit, Varied Tit (winter),
Honshu White-eye, Black-faced Bunting (winter), Japanese Hawfinch (winter), Eurasian Tree Sparrow (winter),
White-cheeked Starling, Japanese Jungle Crow

D1-2. Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden (Tokyo)

- City bird-watching at the Shinjuku sub-central of the metropolitan Tokyo.
- Best season: September to May
- Past trip report: 2016 December 27
Here we have chance to see
Mandarin Duck, Gadwall, Falcated Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Baikal Teal,
Eurasian Teal/Common Teal, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, Black-crowned Night Heron, Grey Heron, Eurasian Great Egret, Little Egret,
Great Cormorant, Common Kestrel, Black Kite, Japanese Sparrowhawk, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Common Coot,
Black-tailed Gull, Siberian Black-headed Gull, Rock Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, House Swift, Common Kingfisher,
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Japanese Woodpecker, Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Jay, Azure-winged Magpie, South Asian Carrion Crow,
Japanese Jungle Crow, Japanese Tit, Varied Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler, Honshu White-eye,
White-cheeked Starling, White's Thrush, Pale Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Dusky Thrush, Daurian Redstart, Eurasian Tree Sparrow,
Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit, Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian), Brambling, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Japanese Hawfinch,
Japanese Grosbeak, Meadow Bunting, Rustic Bunting, Masked Bunting

D1-3. Kasai-Rinkai Park (Tokyo)

- Sea & warter bird-watching in the park located at the Tokyo bay.
- Best season: all season.
- Past trip report: January 19, 2018 March 04, 2017 October 31
Here we have chance to see
Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Eastern Great Egret, Little Egret, Great Cormorant, Common Kestrel, Black Kite, Goshawk,
Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot, Kentish Plover, Common Sandpiper, Sanderling, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Common Kingfisher,
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Bull-headed Shrike, Azure-winged Magpie, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow,
Japanese Tit, Zitting Cisticola, Japanese chestnut-eared bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler, Japanese White-eye, White-cheeked Starling,
Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Grey-capped Greenfinch,
Gadwall (winter), Falcated Teal (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter), Mallard (winter), Northern Pintail (winter), Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter),
Pochard (winter), Tufted Duck (winter), Eurasian Scaup (winter), Great Crested Grebe (winter), Horned Grebe (winter), Black-necked Grebe (winter),
Black-crowned Night Heron (winter), Grey Heron (winter), Eurasian Great Egret (winter), Eastern Peregrine Falcon (winter), Osprey (winter),
Eastern Marsh-Harrier (winter), Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter), Japanese Buzzard (winter), Brown-cheeked Rail (winter),
Grey Plover (winter), Common Snipe (winter), Siberian Dunlin (winter), Kamchatka Gull (winter), Vega Gull (winter), Slaty-backed Gull (winter),
Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter), Varied Tit (winter), Scaly Thrush (winter), Pale Thrush (winter), Brown-headed Thrush (winter),
Dusky Thrush (winter), Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin (winter), Daurian Redstart (winter), Indian tree pipit (winter), Brambling (winter),
Grey-capped Greenfinch (winter), Japanese Hawfinch (winter), Rustic Bunting (winter), Black-faced Bunting (winter),
Little Ringed Plover (migrant), Tibetan Plover (migrant), Long-billed Dowitcher (migrant), Eastern Black-tailed Godwit (migrant),
Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit (migrant), Whimbrel (migrant), Common Greenshank (migrant), Wood Sandpiper (migrant), Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant),
Ruddy Turnstone (migrant), Red-necked Stint (migrant), Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (migrant), Common Tern (migrant), Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo (migrant),
Lessor Cuckoo (migrant), Pacific Swift (kanoi) (migrant), Chestnut-cheeked Starling (migrant), Eye-browed Thrush (migrant),
Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant), Dark-sided Flycatcher (migrant), Asian Brown Flycatcher (migrant), Narcissus Flycatcher (migrant),
Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (migrant), Japanese Sparrowhawk (summer), Black-tailed Gull (summer), Little Tern (summer),
Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Oriental Reed-Warbler (summer)

D1-4. Sanbanze (Chiba)

- Shorebird watching at the tidal flat located at the Tokyo bay.
- Best season: August to October (autumn migration), December to February (winter), March to May (spring migration)
- Past trip report: 2018 May 01, 2017 September 30
Here we have chance to see
Streaked Shearwater (migrant), Holboll's Grebe (winter), Great Crested Grebe (winter), Black-necked Grebe (winter),
Grey Heron, Chinese Egret (migrant), Eastern Great Egret, Eurasian Great Egret (winter),
Red-breasted Merganser (winter), Northern Pintail (winter), Tufted Duck (winter), Black Scoter (winter), Asiatic Scoter (winter),
Greater Scaup (American) (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter), Common Goldeneye (winter), Pochard (winter), Mallard (winter),
Osprey, Common Coot, Kamtchatka Oystercatcher, Kentish Plover, Greater Sand Plover (migrant), Western Little Ringed Plover (migrant),
Eastern Common Ringed Plover (migrant), Pacific Golden-Plover (migrant), Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni) (migrant), Grey Plover (winter),
Siberian Dunlin (winter), Common Greenshank (migrant), Red-necked Phalarope (migrant), Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (migrant),
Ruff (migrant), Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit (migrant), Long-billed Dowitcher (migrant), Great Knot (migrant), Red Knot (migrant),
Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant), Ruddy Turnstone (migrant), Eastern Broad-billed Sandpiper (migrant), Marsh Sandpiper (migrant),
Terek Sandpiper (migrant), Eastern Eurasian Curlew (migrant), Whimbrel (migrant), Red-necked Stint (migrant), Little Stint (migrant),
Far Eastern Curlew (migrant), Black-winged Stilt, Black-tailed Gull, Slaty-backed Gull (winter), Kamchatka Gull (winter),
Vega Gull (winter), Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake (winter), Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter),
Common Tern (migrant), Little Tern (migrant), Red-bellied Rockthrush, Zitting Cisticola, Dusky Thrush (winter), Reed Bunting (winter)

D1-5. Yatsu Tidal Flat (Chiba)

- Water-bird watching in the tidal flat located in the depth of the Tokyo Bay nearby the metropolitan Tokyo.
- Best season: August to October, March to May
- Past trip report: 2018 May 17-19, 2015 September 04
Here we have chance to see
Little Grebe, Great Cormorant, Grey Heron, Little Egret, Eastern Great Egret, Eastern Cattle Egret (migrant),
Eurasian Great Egret (migrant/winter), Intermediate Egret (migrant), Black-crowned Night Heron, Yellow Bittern (summer/migrant),
Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Pintail (winte/migrant), Tufted Duck (winte/migrant), Common Teal (winte/migrant),
Mallard (winte/migrant), Goshawk, Black Kite, Common Kestrel, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Common Coot, Eurasian Moorhen,
Brown-cheeked Rail (summer/migrant), Kentish Plover, Greater Sand Plover (migrant), Western Little Ringed Plover (migrant),
Eastern Common Ringed Plover (migrant), Pacific Golden-Plover (migrant), Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni) (migrant),
Grey Plover (winter/migrant), Common Greenshank (migrant), Eastern Redshank (migrant), Red-necked Phalarope (migrant),
Common Sandpiper, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (migrant), Pectoral Sandpiper (migrant), Ruff (migrant), Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit (migrant),
Long-billed Dowitcher (migrant), Eastern Black-tailed Godwit (migrant), Temminck's Stint (migrant), Great Knot (migrant), Red Knot (migrant),
Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant), Ruddy Turnstone (migrant), Eastern Broad-billed Sandpiper (migrant), Green Sandpiper (migrant),
Marsh Sandpiper (migrant), Curlew Sandpiper (migrant), Terek Sandpiper (migrant), Wood Sandpiper (migrant),
Red-necked Stint (migrant), Little Stint (migrant), Long-toed Stint (migrant), Eastern Eurasian Curlew (migrant), Whimbrel (migrant),
Far Eastern Curlew (migrant), Siberian Dunlin (winter/migrant), Black-winged Stilt, Black-tailed Gull (summer/migrant),
Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter/migrant), Whiskered Tern (migrant), Little Tern (migrant), White-winged Tern (migrant),
Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, House Swift (migrant), Common Kingfisher, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer/migrant),
Asian House Martin (migrant), Grey Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Bull-headed Shrike, Red-bellied Rockthrush,
Oriental Reed-Warbler (summer/migrant), Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Tit, Honshu White-eye, Eurasian Tree Sparrow,
White-cheeked Starling, Chestnut-cheeked Starling (migrant), Azure-winged Magpie, Japanese Jungle Crow, South Asian Carrion Crow

D1-6. Tokyo Port Wild Bird Park Nature Reserve (Tokyo)

- Sea & warter bird-watching in the park located near Haneda Airport.
- Best season: September to May
- Past trip report: 2013 April 21, 2017 August 08
Here we have chance to see
Mandarin Duck (migrant), Gadwall (winter), Falcated Duck (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter), Mallard (winter),
Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler (winter), Northern Pintail (winter), Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter),
Pochard (winter), Tufted Duck (winter), Greater Scaup (American) (winter), Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe (winter),
Black-crowned Night Heron (summer), Chinese Pond-Heron (migrant), Grey Heron, Eurasian Great Egret (A.a.alba)(winter),
Eastern Great Egret (A.modesta)(summer), Intermediate Egret (migrant), Little Egret, Chinese Egret (migrant), Great Cormorant,
Common Kestrel, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey (summer), Black Kite, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter), Goshawk,
Grey-faced Buzzard (migrant), Japanese Buzzard (winter), Brown-cheeked Rail (winter), Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot,
Black-winged Stilt (summer), Long-billed Plover (summer), Western Little Ringed Plover (migrant), Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni) (migrant),
Common Snipe (winter), Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit (migrant), Whimbrel (migrant), Common Greenshank (migrant),
Green Sandpiper (migrant), Wood Sandpiper (migrant), Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant), Terek Sandpiper (migrant), Common Sandpiper,
Ruddy Turnstone (migrant), Red-necked Stint (migrant), Siberian Dunlin (migrant), Black-tailed Gull, Vega Gull (winter),
Slaty-backed Gull (winter), Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter), Common Tern (migrant), Little Tern (summer), Whiskered Tern (migrant),
White-winged Tern (migrant), Rock Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Pacific Swift (kanoi) (migrant), House Swift (summer),
Common Kingfisher, Japanese Wryneck (migrant), Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker (winter), Bull-headed Shrike,
Azure-winged Magpie, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Japanese Tit, Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Asian House Martin (summer),
Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler, Oriental Reed Warbler (summer), Eastern Crowned Warbler (migrant),
Chinese Hwamei, Honshu White-eye, Chestnut-cheeked Starling (migrant), White-cheeked Starling, White's Thrush (winter),
Pale Thrush (winter), Brown-headed Thrush (winter), Dusky Thrush (winter), Daurian Redstart (winter), Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (migrant),
Red-bellied Rock Thrush, Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant), Asian Brown Flycatcher (migrant), Narcissus Flycatcher (migrant),
Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (migrant), Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Grey Wagtail (winter), Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail,
Olive-backed Pipit (winter), Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian) (winter), Brambling (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba)(winter),
Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.minor)(summer), Japanese Hawfinch (winter), Meadow Bunting (winter), Rustic Bunting (winter),
Masked Bunting (winter), Reed Bunting (winter)

D1-7. Tama-cemetery, Musashino Park and Nogawa Park (Tokyo)

- Bird-watching at the Japan's first park-type cemetery and the parks nearby along a stamm stream "Nogawa" located east of Tokyo metropolitan.
- Best season: October to April
- Past trip report: 2017 September 25-26, 2017 December 15
Here we have chance to see
Goshawk, Black Kite, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Japanese Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker,
Black-backed Wagtail, Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Bush Warbler, Japanese chestnut-eared bulbul, Long-tailed Tit, Japanese Tit, Varied Tit,
Honshu White-eye, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, White-cheeked Starling, Azure-winged Magpie, Japanese Jay,
Japanese Jungle Crow, South Asian Carrion Crow,
Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter), Indian tree pipit (winter), Eurasian Wren (fumigatus) (winter), Daurian Redstart (winter),
Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin (winter), Brown-headed Thrush (winter), Pale Thrush (winter), Dusky Thrush (winter), White's thrush (winter),
Goldcrest (winter), Coal Tit (winter), Black-faced Bunting (winter), Rustic Bunting (winter), Grey Bunting (winter),
Brambling (winter), Grey-bellied Bullfinch (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (winter), Japanese Hawfinch (winter), Japanese Grosbeak (winter),
Japanese Waxwing (migrant), Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant), Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (migrant),
Narcissus Flycatcher (migrant), Asian Brown Flycatcher (migrant), Japanese Leaf Warbler (migrant), Eurasian Siskin (migrant),
Chestnut-cheeked Starling (migrant),
Japanese Sparrowhawk (summer), Lessor Cuckoo (summer), Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer)

D1-8. Mt. Takao (Tokyo)

- Bird-watching in the hill located at west to Tokyo.
- Best season: March to June
- Past trip report: 2018 May 15
Here we have chance to see
Common Kestrel, Black Kite, Goshawk, Japanese Buzzard, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon,
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Japanese Woodpecker, Bull-headed Shrike, Jay, Azure-winged Magpie,
South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Northern Long-tailed Tit, Japanese chestnut-eared bulbul,
Japanese Bush Warbler, Chinese Hwamei, Red-billed Leiothrix, Honshu White-eye, White-cheeked Starling, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Grey Wagtail,
Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Japanese Grosbeak, Siberian Meadow Bunting, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter),
Japanese Waxwing (winter), Goldcrest (winter), Eurasian Wren (winter), Pale Thrush (winter), Dusky Thrush (winter),
Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin (winter), Daurian Redstart (winter), Brambling (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (winter),
Eurasian Siskin (winter), Grey-bellied Bullfinch (winter), Japanese Hawfinch (winter), Rustic Bunting (winter),
Black-faced Bunting (winter), Grey Bunting (winter), Pacific Swift (kanoi) (migrant), Japanese Sparrowhawk (summer),
Common Cuckoo (summer), Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo (summer), Lessor Cuckoo (summer), House Swift (summer),
Black Paradise-Flycatcher (summer), Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Asian House Martin (summer), Asian Stubtail (summer),
Eastern Crowned-Warbler (summer), Japanese Thrush (summer), Brown-headed Thrush (summer), Narcissus Flycatcher (summer),
Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (summer)

D1-9. Mizumoto Park (Tokyo)

- Bird-watching in the park with lake and forest.
- Best season: September to May
- Past trip report: 2017 October 18, 2013 Dec 01
Here we have chance to see
Grey Heron, Eastern Cattle Egret (summer), Eurasian Great Egret (winter), Black-crowned Night Heron, Little Egret,
Intermediate Egret (summer), Eastern Great Egret, Gadwall (winter), Northern Pintail (winter), Eastern Spot-billed Duck,
Tufted Duck (winter), Common Teal (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter), American Wigeon (winter),
Pochard (winter), Mallard (winter), Falcated Teal (winter), Great Crested Grebe (winter), Black-necked Grebe (winter),
Goshawk, Japanese Sparrowhawk (summer), Black Kite, Japanese Buzzard, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter), Common Kestrel,
Green Pheasant (kigis), Common Coot, Brown-cheeked Rail, Ruddy-breasted Crake (winter), Eurasian Moorhen,
Common Sandpiper, Common Snipe (winter), Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter), White-bellied Green-Pigeon (migrant),
Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo (migrant), Lessor Cuckoo (migrant), Common Kingfisher,
Japanese Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Japanese Wryneck (winter), Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker,
Japanese Skylark, Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Grey Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian) (winter),
Black-backed Wagtail, Indian tree pipit (winter), Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Waxwing (migrant), Daurian Redstart (winter),
Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (migrant), Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin (winter), Brown-headed Thrush (winter), Japanese Bush Warbler,
Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant), Sakhalin Leaf-Warbler (migrant), Brown-headed Thrush (winter), Oriental Reed-Warbler (migrant),
Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (migrant), Goldcrest (winter), Narcissus Flycatcher (migrant), Japanese Thrush (migrant),
Asian Brown Flycatcher (migrant), Dark-sided Flycatcher (migrant), Black Paradise-Flycatcher (migrant), Pale Thrush (winter),
Eastern Crowned-Warbler (migrant), Dusky Thrush (winter), White's Thrush (winter), Brown-eared Bulbul,
Eye-browed Thrush (migrant), Japanese Leaf Warbler (migrant), Long-tailed Tit, Japanese Tit, Varied Tit, Honshu White-eye,
Masked Bunting (winter), Reed Bunting (winter), Palla's Reed Bunting (winter), Rustic Bunting (winter), Grey Bunting (winter),
Siberian Meadow Bunting, Eurasian Bullfinch (winter), Brambling (winter), Grey-bellied Bullfinch (winter),
Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.minor), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba)(winter), Japanese Grosbeak (migrant),
Japanese Hawfinch (winter), Long-tailed Rosefinch (winter), Eurasian Siskin (winter), Eurasian Tree Sparrow,
Chestnut-cheeked Starling (migrant), White-cheeked Starling, Azure-winged Magpie, Japanese Jay, Japanese Jungle Crow,
South Asian Carrion Crow

D1-10. Akigase Park (Saitama)

- Bird-watching in a park and the adjacent rice field located at the flood plain of the Arakawa River.
There is a forest of deciduous trees and a farm field as good birding spots.
- Best season: all season.
- Past trip report: 2018 February 26, 2018 April 20
Here we have chance to see
Grey Heron, Eastern Cattle Egret (summer), Eurasian Great Egret (winter), Black-crowned Night Heron, Little Egret,
Intermediate Egret (summer), Eastern Great Egret, Yellow Bittern (summer), Gadwall (winter), Northern Pintail (winter),
Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Tufted Duck (winter), Common Teal (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter),
Pochard (winter), Mallard (winter), Falcated Teal (winter), Goshawk, Japanese Sparrowhawk (summer),
Black Kite, Japanese Buzzard, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter), Common Kestrel,
Green Pheasant (kigis), Common Coot, Brown-cheeked Rail (summer), Eurasian Moorhen,
Ruddy-breasted Crake (summer), Western Little Ringed Plover (migrant), Pacific Golden-Plover (migrant),
Common Greenshank (migrant), Eastern Redshank (migrant), Common Sandpiper, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (migrant),
Ruff (migrant), Latham's Snipe (migrant), Eastern Black-tailed Godwit (migrant), Temminck's Stint (migrant),
Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant), Eastern Broad-billed Sandpiper (migrant), Green Sandpiper (migrant),
Marsh Sandpiper (migrant), Wood Sandpiper (migrant), Common Snipe (winter),
Common Greater Painted-snipe (summer), Swinhoe's Snipe (migrant), Whimbrel (migrant),
Spotted Redshank (migrant), Red-necked Stint (migrant), Siberian Dunlin (migrant), Long-toed Stint (migrant),
Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter), White-bellied Green-Pigeon (migrant), Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove,
Eastern Common Cuckoo (summer), Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo (migrant), Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo (migrant),
Lessor Cuckoo (migrant), Ural Owl, Grey Nightjar (migrant), Pacific Swift (kanoi) (migrant), House Swift (migrant),
Common Kingfisher, Japanese Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Japanese Wryneck (winter),
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Japanese Skylark, Asian House Martin (summer), Red-rumped Swallow (migrant),
Kamchatka Sand Martin (migrant), Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Grey Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian) (winter),
Black-backed Wagtail, Indian tree pipit (winter), Ashy Minivet (migrant), Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Waxwing (migrant),
Japanese Accentor (winter), Siberian Blue Robin (migrant), Daurian Redstart (winter), Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (migrant),
Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin (winter), Brown-headed Thrush (winter), Japanese Bush Warbler,
Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant), Sakhalin Leaf-Warbler (migrant), Brown-headed Thrush (winter),
Oriental Reed-Warbler (migrant), Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (migrant), Goldcrest (winter),
Narcissus Flycatcher (migrant), Japanese Thrush (migrant), Asian Brown Flycatcher (migrant),
Dark-sided Flycatcher (migrant), Black Paradise-Flycatcher (migrant), Pale Thrush (winter), Zitting Cisticola,
Eastern Crowned-Warbler (migrant), Dusky Thrush (winter), White's Thrush (winter), Brown-eared Bulbul,
Eye-browed Thrush (migrant), Japanese Leaf Warbler (migrant), Long-tailed Tit, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit (winter),
Varied Tit, Honshu White-eye, Black-faced Bunting (winter), Reed Bunting (winter), Palla's Reed Bunting (winter),
Rustic Bunting (winter), Grey Bunting (winter), Chestnut-eared Bunting (winter), Siberian Meadow Bunting,
Eurasian Bullfinch (winter), Brambling (winter), Grey-bellied Bullfinch (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch, Grey-capped Greenfinch (winter),
Japanese Grosbeak (migrant), Chinese Grosbeak/Yellow-billed Grosbeak (migrant), Japanese Hawfinch (winter),
Long-tailed Rosefinch (winter), Eurasian Siskin (winter), Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Chestnut-cheeked Starling (migrant),
White-cheeked Starling, Azure-winged Magpie, Japanese Jay, Japanese Jungle Crow, South Asian Carrion Crow

D1-11. Watarase Retarding Basin (Watarase-Yusuichi) (Tochigi, Gunma, Ibaragi)

- Wet-land bird-watching in Ramsar wetland Watarase-Yusuichi at north of Tokyo with the largest reed-field in Honshu island.
- One full-day or two days is recommended.
- Best season: November to Februay, May to June
- Past trip report: 2018 March 16, 2018 June 10, 2017 December 17
Here we have chance to see
Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe (winter), Black-necked Grebe (winter), Great Cormorant, Eastern Great Egret, Little Egret,
Grey Heron, Eastern Cattle Egret (summer), Eurasian Great Egret (winter), Black-crowned Night Heron,
Striated Heron (amurensis) (summer), Eurasian Bittern/Great Bittern (summer), Intermediate Egret (summer), Eastern Spot-billed Duck,
Yellow Bittern (summer), Gadwall (winter), Northern Pintail (winter), Garganey (migrant), Tufted Duck (winter),
Common Teal (winter), Greater Scaup (American) (winter), Common Shelduck (winter), Baikal Teal (winter), Northern Shoveler (winter),
Eurasian Wigeon (winter), Common Goldeneye (winter), Pochard (winter), Mallard (winter), Smew (winter), Falcated Teal (winter),
Black Kite, Japanese Buzzard, Goshawk, Common Kestrel, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Grey-faced Buzzard (summer),
Eastern Marsh-Harrier (winter), Japanese Sparrowhawk (summer), Hen Harrier (winter), Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter),
East Siberian Merlin (winter), Green Pheasant (kigis), Common Coot, Eurasian Moorhen, Brown-cheeked Rail (summer),
Ruddy-breasted Crake (summer), Baillon's Crake (summer), Grey-headed Lapwing, Common Sandpiper, Long-billed Plover,
Western Little Ringed Plover (migrant), Pacific Golden-Plover (migrant), Common Greenshank (migrant), Eastern Redshank (migrant),
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (migrant), Ruff (migrant), Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit (migrant), Eastern Black-tailed Godwit (migrant),
Temminck's Stint (migrant), Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant), Marsh Sandpiper (migrant), Wood Sandpiper (migrant), Whimbrel (migrant),
Spotted Redshank (migrant), Red-necked Stint (migrant), Siberian Dunlin (migrant), Long-toed Stint (migrant),
Latham's Snipe (migrant), Swinhoe's Snipe (migrant), Common Greater Painted-snipe (summer), Northern Lapwing (winter),
Long-billed Dowitcher (winter), Green Sandpiper (winter), Common Snipe (winter), Vega Gull (winter), Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter),
Little Tern (summer), Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Eastern Common Cuckoo (summer), Lessor Cuckoo (summer), Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo (migrant),
Long-eared Owl, Ural Owl, Short-eared Owl (winter), Grey Nightjar (migrant), Pacific Swift (kanoi) (migrant), House Swift (migrant),
Common Kingfisher, Eurasian Eurasian Hoopoe (migrant), Japanese Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Japanese Wryneck (winter),
Japanese Skylark, Asian House Martin (summer), Red-rumped Swallow (migrant), Kamchatka Sand Martin (migrant), Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer),
Grey Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian) (winter), Indian tree pipit (winter), Ashy Minivet (migrant),
Bull-headed Shrike, Great Grey Shrike (winter), Japanese Waxwing (migrant), Daurian Redstart (winter), Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (migrant),
Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin (winter), Japanese Bush Warbler, Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant), Sakhalin Leaf-Warbler (migrant),
Eye-browed Thrush (migrant), Brown-headed Thrush (winter), Brown-headed Thrush (winter), Pale Thrush (winter), Dusky Thrush (winter),
White's Thrush (winter), Marsh Grassbird (Japanese) (summer), Oriental Reed-Warbler (summer), Black-browed Reed-Warbler (summer),
Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (migrant), Narcissus Flycatcher (migrant), Asian Brown Flycatcher (migrant),
Dark-sided Flycatcher (migrant), Black Paradise-Flycatcher (migrant), Zitting Cisticola, Eastern Crowned-Warbler (migrant),
Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Leaf Warbler (migrant), Long-tailed Tit, Japanese Tit, Varied Tit, Coal Tit (winter),
Honshu White-eye, Siberian Meadow Bunting, Black-faced Bunting (winter), Reed Bunting (winter), Rustic Bunting (winter),
Grey Bunting (winter), Palla's Reed Bunting (winter), Chestnut-eared Bunting (winter), Grey-bellied Bullfinch (winter),
Eurasian Bullfinch (winter), Brambling (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch, Grey-capped Greenfinch (winter), Japanese Hawfinch (winter),
Long-tailed Rosefinch (winter), Eurasian Siskin (migrant), Eurasian Tree Sparrow, White-cheeked Starling, Azure-winged Magpie,
Japanese Jungle Crow, South Asian Carrion Crow, Rook (winter), Daurian Jackdaw (winter)

D1-12. Mt. Fuji (Shizuoka, Yamanashi)

- High-land birdwatching at the half altitude level and surrounding forest of Mt. Fuji.
- One or Two days is recommended in summer season.
- Best season: June to September
- Past trip report: 2018 June 13, 2017 August 25
Here we have chance to see
Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe (winter), Black-necked Grebe (winter), Great Cormorant , Grey Heron , Eastern Cattle Egret (summer),
Little Egret (summer), Intermediate Egret (summer), Eastern Great Egret (spring/summer/autumn), Eurasian Great Egret (winter),
Black-crowned Night Heron, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Mandarin Duck (winter), Gadwall (winter), Falcated Teal (winter),
Northern Pintail (winter), Common Teal (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter), Mallard (winter), Tufted Duck (winter), Pochard (winter),
Common Merganser/Goosander (winter), Smew (winter), Black Kite, Japanese Buzzard, Goshawk, Common Kestrel, Japanese Sparrowhawk,
Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Grey-faced Buzzard (summer), Siberian Honey-buzzard (summer), Eastern Peregrine Falcon (winter),
Green Pheasant (kigis), Scintillating Cooper Pheasant, Common Coot, Common Sandpiper, Latham's Snipe (summer), Common Snipe (winter),
European Woodcock, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Eastern Common Cuckoo (summer),
Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo (summer), Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo (summer), Lessor Cuckoo (summer), Ural Owl, Northern Boobook(summer),
Oriental Scope-Owl (summer), Grey Nightjar (summer), Pacific Swift (kanoi) (summer), Common Kingfisher, Crested Kingfisher,
Japanese Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, White-backed Woodpecker, Pygmy Woodpecker, Japanese Skylark,
Asian House Martin (summer), Red-rumped Swallow (migrant), Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Grey Wagtail,
Japanese Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Indian Tree Pipit, Ashy Minivet (summer), Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Shrike (summer),
Japanese Waxwing (winter), Brown Dipper, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Alpine Accentor, Japanese Accentor, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin,
Japanese Robin (summer), Siberian Blue Robin (summer), Daurian Redstart (winter), Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (summer), Brown-headed Thrush,
White's Thrush (summer), Japanese Thrush (summer), Siberian Thrush (summer), Eye-browed Thrush (migrant), Brown-headed Thrush (winter),
Dusky Thrush (winter), Pale Thrush (winter), Red-bellied Rockthrush, Japanese Bush Warbler, Eastern Crowned-Warbler (summer),
Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant), Sakhalin Leaf-Warbler (migrant), Japanese Leaf Warbler (summer), Oriental Reed-Warbler (summer),
Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (summer), Narcissus Flycatcher (summer), Asian Brown Flycatcher (summer), Dark-sided Flycatcher (summer),
Black Paradise-Flycatcher (summer), Goldcrest, Black-browed Reed-Warbler (summer), Zitting Cisticola (summer),
Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail (summer), Long-tailed Tit, Willow Tit, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit,
Eurasian Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Honshu White-eye, Black-faced Bunting, Siberian Meadow Bunting, Grey Bunting,
Chestnut-eared Bunting (spring/summer/autumn), Yellow Bunting (summer), Rustic Bunting (winter), Yellow-headed Bunting (winter),
Reed Bunting (winter), Grey-bellied Bullfinch, Eurasian Bullfinch (winter), Brambling (winter), Red Crossbill, Grey-capped Greenfinch,
Pallas' Rosefinch (winter), Japanese Hawfinch (winter), Asian Rosy-Finch (brunneonucha) (winter), Eurasian Siskin (winter), Long-tailed Rosefinch (winter),
Eurasian Tree Sparrow, White-cheeked Starling, Chestnut-cheeked Starling (summer), Japanese Grosbeak, Japanese Spotted Nutcracker,
Azure-winged Magpie, Japanese Jay, Japanese Jungle Crow, South Asian Carrion Crow

D1-13. Nobeyama (Nagano)

- Bird-watching at Nobeyama highland located in the south of Nagano. The farm fields forests and Dam Lake near JR Nobeyama station are good spots for watching of birds in the grass field and forest.
- One or two days trip is recommended.
- Best season: March to August and November to December.
- Past trip report: 2018 January 11, 2015 March 18, 2016 August 19
Here we have chance to see
Copper Pheasant (Scintillating), Green Pheasant (kigis), Mandarin Duck (winter), Gadwall (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter),
Mallard (winter), Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler (winter), Northern Pintail (winter), Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter),
Pochard (winter), Tufted Duck (winter), Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe (winter), Grey Heron, Eurasian Great Egret (winter),
Little Egret (winter), Great Cormorant, Common Kestrel, Merlin (winter), Siberian Honey-buzzard (summer), Black Kite,
Hen Harrier (winter), Japanese Sparrowhawk, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter), Goshawk, Grey-faced Buzzard (summer),
Japanese Buzzard, Siberian Rough-legged Hawk (winter), Common Coot, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon (summer),
Northern Hawk-Cuckoo (summer), Eastern Common Cuckoo (summer), Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo (summer), Lessor Cuckoo (summer),
Ural Owl, Short-eared Owl (winter), Common Kingfisher, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, White-backed Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker,
Ashy Minivet (summer), Bull-headed Shrike, Long-tailed Shrike (Taiwan) (winter), Japanese Jay, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow,
Bohemian Waxwing (migrant), Japanese Waxwing (migrant), Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Willow Tit, Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer),
Asian House Martin (summer), Long-tailed Tit, Japanese Skylark (summer), Pallid Horned Lark (winter), Zitting Cisticola (summer),
Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail (summer), Japanese Bush Warbler, Eastern Crowned Warbler (summer), Honshu White-eye,
Eurasian Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Chestnut-cheeked Starling (summer), White-cheeked Starling, Japanese Thrush (summer), Pale Thrush (winter),
Brown-headed Thrush (T.c.chrysolaus)(summer), Brown-headed Thrush (T.c.orii)(winter), Naumann's Thrush (migrant), Dusky Thrush (winter),
Daurian Redstart (winter), Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (summer), Dark-sided Flycatcher (summer), Asian Brown Flycatcher (summer),
Narcissus Flycatcher (summer), Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (summer), Russet Sparrow (summer), Eurasian Tree Sparrow,
Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit (summer), Brambling (winter),
Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba)(winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.minor)(summer), Eurasian Siskin (winter), Common Redpoll (winter),
Long-tailed Rosefinch (winter), Pallas' Rosefinch (winter), Red Crossbill (winter), Grey-bellied Bullfinch (winter), Eurasian Bullfinch (winter),
Japanese Hawfinch (winter), Japanese Grosbeak (summer), Meadow Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting (summer), Rustic Bunting (winter),
Yellow-headed Bunting (winter), Masked Bunting (winter)

D1-14. Lake Inba-numa (Chiba)

- Birding birds around the lake in winter, spring and early summer.
- Best season: December to February, April to June
- Past trip report: 2018 January 14, 2018 June 24
Here we have chance to see
Chinese Bamboo-Partridge, Green Pheasant (kigis), Bean Goose (winter), Greater White-fronted Goose (Tundra) (winter),
Snow Goose (Lesser) (winter), Mute Swan, Whooper Swan (winter), Tundra Swan/Tundra Swan/Bewick's Swan (winter), Tundra Swan/Bewick's Swan/Whistling Swan (winter),
Mandarin Duck (summer, winter), Gadwall (winter), Falcated Duck (migrant, winter), Mallard (winter), Eastern Spot-billed Duck,
Northern Shoveler (winter), Northern Pintail (winter), Garganey (migrant), Baikal Teal (winter), Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (migrant, winter),
Green-winged Teal (migrant), Red-crested Pochard (winter), Pochard (winter), Tufted Duck (winter), Common Goldeneye (winter),
Smew (winter), Pacific Loon/Pacific Diver (winter), Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe (migrant, winter), Black-necked Grebe (winter),
Eurasian Bittern/Great Bittern, Yellow Bittern (migrant, summer), Black-crowned Night Heron, Eastern Cattle Egret (migrant), Grey Heron,
Eurasian Great Egret (winter), Eastern Great Egret, Intermediate Egret (migrant, summer), Little Egret, Great White Pelican,
Great Cormorant, Common Kestrel, Merlin (winter), Eastern Peregrine Falcon (migrant, winter), Osprey, Black Kite,
Eastern Marsh-Harrier, Hen Harrier (winter), Japanese Sparrowhawk (migrant), Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter), Goshawk,
Grey-faced Buzzard (migrant), Japanese Buzzard, Brown-cheeked Rail (winter), Baillon's Crake (winter), Ruddy-breasted Crake (winter),
Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot, Black-winged Stilt (migrant, winter), Grey-headed Lapwing (migrant, winter),
Pacific Golden-Plover (migrant, winter), Long-billed Plover (summer), Western Little Ringed Plover (migrant),
Latham's Snipe (migrant), Swinhoe's Snipe (migrant), Common Snipe (migrant, winter), Eastern Black-tailed Godwit (migrant),
Whimbrel (migrant), Spotted Redshank (migrant), Central Asian Common Redshank (migrant), Marsh Sandpiper (migrant),
Common Greenshank (migrant), Green Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper (migrant), Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant), Common Sandpiper (migrant, summer),
Ruddy Turnstone (migrant), Red-necked Stint (migrant), Long-toed Stint (migrant), Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (migrant),
Siberian Dunlin (migrant, winter), Ruff (migrant), Red-necked Phalarope (migrant), Black-tailed Gull (winter), Kamchatka Gull (migrant),
Vega Gull (migrant, winter), Siberian Black-headed Gull (migrant, winter), Little Tern (summer), Whiskered Tern (summer, winter),
White-winged Tern (summer), Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Lessor Cuckoo (summer), Northern Boobook (migrant), Short-eared Owl (winter),
Common Kingfisher (migrant, winter), Japanese Wryneck (winter), Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker (winter),
Bull-headed Shrike (migrant, winter), Japanese Jay (winter), Eastern Rook (winter), South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow (winter),
Japanese Tit, Varied Tit (migrant, winter), Kamchatka Sand Martin (migrant), Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (migrant, summer),
Asian House Martin (migrant, summer), Long-tailed Tit (winter), Japanese Skylark, Zitting Cisticola, Brown-eared Bulbul,
Marsh Grassbird (Japanese) (migrant), Japanese Bush Warbler (winter), Oriental Reed Warbler (migrant, summer), Honshu White-eye,
Goldcrest (winter), Chestnut-cheeked Starling (migrant), White-cheeked Starling, White's Thrush (winter), Pale Thrush (winter),
Brown-headed Thrush (winter), Dusky Thrush (migrant, winter), Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin (winter), Daurian Redstart (migrant, winter),
Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (migrant), Red-bellied Rock Thrush (winter), Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant), Narcissus Flycatcher (migrant),
Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail (migrant, winter), Olive-backed Pipit (winter),
Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian) (migrant, winter), Brambling (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba) (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.minor),
Eurasian Siskin (winter), Long-tailed Rosefinch (winter), Japanese Hawfinch (winter), Meadow Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting (winter),
Rustic Bunting (winter), Yellow-headed Bunting (winter), Masked Bunting (migrant, winter), Japanese Reed Bunting, Reed Bunting (migrant, winter)

D1-15. Lake Tega-Numa (Chiba)

- Birding birds around the lake in winter.
- Best season: December to February
- Past trip report: 2017 December 01, 03
Here we have chance to see
Chinese Bamboo-Partridge, Green Pheasant (kigis), Bean Goose, Mute Swan, Whooper Swan, Tundra Swan/Tundra Swan/Bewick's Swan, Mandarin Duck, Gadwall,
Eurasian Wigeon, Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Baikal Teal, Eurasian Teal/Common Teal, Pochard,
Tufted Duck, Smew, Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Grey Heron, Eurasian Great Egret, Little Egret,
Great Cormorant, Common Kestrel, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Eastern Marsh-Harrier, Goshawk, Japanese Buzzard,
Brown-cheeked Rail, Ruddy-breasted Crake, Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot, Black-winged Stilt, Northern Lapwing, Kentish Plover,
Common Snipe, Spotted Redshank, Siberian Dunlin, Kamchatka Gull, Thayer's Gull, Vega Gull, Siberian Black-headed Gull,
Whiskered Tern, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Ural Owl, Common Kingfisher, Japanese Wryneck, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker,
Bull-headed Shrike, Azure-winged Magpie, Eastern Rook, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit,
Asian Short-toed Lark, Zitting Cisticola, Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler, Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest,
White-cheeked Starling, White's Thrush, Pale Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Dusky Thrush, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin, Red-bellied Rock Thrush,
Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit, Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian), Grey-capped Greenfinch,
Eurasian Siskin, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Japanese Hawfinch, Meadow Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting, Rustic Bunting, Masked Bunting,
Grey Bunting, Reed Bunting

D1-16. Choshi Port (Chiba)

- Birding gulls in winter and sea birds in summer where the cold current from the north and warm current from south meet.
- One full-day or two days is recommended.
- Best season: December to March
- Past trip report: 2018 February 23
Here we have chance to see
Black Brant (winter), Gadwall (winter), Falcated Duck (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter), Mallard (winter),
Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler (winter), Northern Pintail (winter), Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter),
Pochard (winter), Ring-necked Duck (winter), Tufted Duck (winter), Greater Scaup (American) (winter),
Pacific Harlequin Duck (winter), Surf Scoter (winter), Stejneger's Scoter/White-winged Scoter (Siberian) (winter), Black Scoter (winter),
Long-tailed Duck (winter), Bufflehead (winter), Common Goldeneye (winter), Red-breasted Merganser (winter),
Red-throated Loon/Red-throated Diver (winter), Black-throated Loon/Black-throated Diver/Arctic Loon (Green-throated) (winter), Pacific Loon/Pacific Diver (winter), Yellow-billed Loon/White-billed Diver (winter),
Northern Fulmar (Pacific) (winter), Streaked Shearwater(summer), Buller's Shearwater (migrant), Cook's Petrel (migrant),
Leach's Storm-Petrel (summer), Fork-tailed Petrel (winter), Little Grebe, Holboll's Grebe (winter),
Great Crested Grebe (winter), Horned Grebe (winter), Black-necked Grebe (winter),
Grey Heron, Eastern Great Egret (migrant), Little Egret (winter), Pacific Reef Heron/Pacific Reef-Egret, Lesser Frigatebird (summer),
Great Cormorant, Japanese Cormorant (winter), Pelagic Cormorant (winter), Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey,
Black Kite, Common Coot, Kamtchatka Oystercatcher, Grey Plover (winter), Western Little Ringed Plover (migrant),
Kentish Plover, Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni) (migrant), Whimbrel (migrant), Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant), Ruddy Turnstone (migrant),
Sandering, Red-necked Stint (migrant), Siberian Dunlin (winter), Red-necked Phalarope (migrant),
Black-tailed Gull, Kamchatka Gull (winter), Short-billed Gull (winter), Ring-billed Gull (winter),
Glaucous-winged Gull (winter), Glaucous Gull (winter), Point Barrow Gull (winter), Kumlien's Gull (winter),
Thayer's Gull (winter), Vega Gull (winter), Caspian Gull (winter), Baraba Gull (winter), American Herring Gull (winter),
Mongolian Gull (winter), Slaty-backed Gull (winter), Siberian Gull (winter), Taymyr Gull (winter),
Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter), Slender-billed Gull (winter), Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake (winter),
Caspian Tern (winter), Greater Crested Tern (migrant), Indo-pacific Roseate Tern (summer),
Common Tern (S.h.minussensis)(migrant), Common Tern (S.h.longipennis)(migrant), Little Tern (summer), Least Tern (summer),
Aleutian Tern (migrant), Gull-billed Tern (migrant), Whiskered Tern (migrant), White-winged Tern (migrant),
Pomarine Jaeger/Pomarine Skua(summer), Pigeon Guillemot (winter), Marbled Murrelet (winter), Ancient Murrelet (winter),
Japanese Murrelet (winter), Rock Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Bull-headed Shrike, Azure-winged Magpie,
South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Japanese Skylark, Brown-eared Bulbul,
Japanese Bush Warbler, Honshu White-eye, White-cheeked Starling, Black-backed Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit (winter),
Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian) (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba)(winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.minor)(summer)

D1-17. Mt. Gongen & Mt. Kobo (Kanagawa)

- Watching of Hawk migration in autumn and wintering bird.
- Best season: September to April
- Past trip report: 2016 September 30
Here we have chance to see
Chinese Bamboo-Partridge, Grey Heron (migrant), Great Cormorant (migrant), Common Kestrel, Northern Hobby (migrant),
Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey (migrant), Siberian Honey-buzzard (migrant), Black Kite, Japanese Sparrowhawk (migrant),
Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (migrant), Goshawk, Grey-faced Buzzard (migrant), Japanese Buzzard, Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis),
Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Northern Hawk-Cuckoo (migrant), Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo (migrant),
Lessor Cuckoo (migrant), Grey Nightjar (migrant), Pacific Swift (kanoi) (migrant), House Swift (migrant),
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Ryukyu Minivet (winter), Bull-headed Shrike,
Black Paradise-Flycatcher (migrant), Japanese Jay (migrant), Azure-winged Magpie, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow,
Japanese Tit, Coal Tit (winter), Varied Tit, Kamchatka Sand Martin (migrant), Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Asian House Martin (migrant), Red-rumped Swallow (migrant), Long-tailed Tit, Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail (migrant), Japanese Bush Warbler,
Yellow-browed Warbler (winter), Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler (migrant), Kamchatka Leaf Warbler (migrant), Sakhalin Leaf Warbler (migrant),
Eastern Crowned Warbler (migrant), Chinese Hwamei, Red-billed Leiothrix, Honshu White-eye, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus) (winter),
Chestnut-cheeked Starling (migrant), White-cheeked Starling, White's Thrush (winter), Eyebrowed Thrush (migrant), Pale Thrush (winter), Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin (winter), Daurian Redstart (winter), Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (migrant), Red-bellied Rock Thrush,
Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant), Dark-sided Flycatcher (migrant), Asian Brown Flycatcher (migrant), Narcissus Flycatcher (summer),
Mugimaki Flycatcher (migrant), Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (migrant), Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Grey Wagtail (summer),
Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit (winter), Brambling (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba)(winter),
Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.minor)(summer), Eurasian Siskin (migrant), Grey-bellied Bullfinch (winter), Eurasian Bullfinch (winter),
Japanese Hawfinch (winter), Japanese Grosbeak, Meadow Bunting, Masked Bunting (winter), Grey Bunting (winter)

D1-18. Miyagase Lake (Kanagawa)

- Bird watching of summer and winter birds on the forest road along Miyagase Lake and the forest in the west foot of Tanzawa mpuntains.
- Best season: December to June
- Past trip report: 2018 April 26, 2018 May 13, 2018 January 05
Here we have chance to see
Chinese Bamboo-Partridge, Copper Pheasant (Scintillating), Mandarin Duck (winter), Mallard (winter), Eastern Spot-billed Duck,
Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter), Pochard (winter), Tufted Duck (winter), Little Grebe (winter), Great Crested Grebe (winter),
Black-necked Grebe (winter), Black-crowned Night Heron (summer), Grey Heron, Eurasian Great Egret (winter), Little Egret (winter),
Great Cormorant, Common Kestrel (winter), Osprey (winter), Black Kite, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter), Japanese Buzzard (winter),
Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis), Common Coot (winter), Black-tailed Gull (winter), Vega Gull (winter), Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter),
Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo (Oriental Cuckoo) (summer), Lessor Cuckoo (summer),
Ural Owl, House Swift (summer), Ruddy Kingfisher (summer), Common Kingfisher, Crested Kingfisher, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker,
Great Spotted Woodpecker, Japanese Woodpecker, Ashy Minivet (summer), Bull-headed Shrike (winter), Black Paradise-Flycatcher (summer),
Japanese Jay, Azure-winged Magpie, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit (winter), Varied Tit,
Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Asian House Martin (summer), Long-tailed Tit, Japanese Skylark (summer), Brown-eared Bulbul,
Asian Stubtail (summer), Japanese Bush Warbler, Eastern Crowned Warbler (summer), Chinese Hwamei, Red-billed Leiothrix, Honshu White-eye,
Goldcrest (winter), Eurasian Wren (fumigatus) (winter), White-cheeked Starling, White's Thrush, Japanese Thrush (summer), Pale Thrush (winter),
Brown-headed Thrush, Dusky Thrush (winter), Japanese Robin (migrant), Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin (winter), Daurian Redstart (winter),
Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant), Dark-sided Flycatcher (migrant), Asian Brown Flycatcher (migrant, summer), Narcissus Flycatcher (summer),
Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (summer), Brown Dipper, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Japanese Accentor (winter), Grey Wagtail,
Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit (winter), Brambling (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (winter),
Eurasian Siskin (winter), Common Redpoll (winter), Long-tailed Rosefinch (winter), Pallas' Rosefinch (winter),
Grey-bellied Bullfinch (winter), Eurasian Bullfinch (winter), Japanese Hawfinch (winter), Japanese Grosbeak, Meadow Bunting,
Rustic Bunting (winter), Yellow-headed Bunting (winter), Masked Bunting (winter), Grey Bunting (migrant)

D1-19. Sagami River (Kanagawa)

- Watching of wintering birds in the river, river bank and paddy field.
- Best season: December to February
- Past trip report: 2018 February 08
Here we have chance to see
Green Pheasant (kigis), Mandarin Duck, Gadwall, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Pintail, Eurasian Teal/Common Teal, Tufted Duck,
Greater Scaup (American), Common Goldeneye, Common Merganser/Goosander, Black-crowned Night Heron, Eastern Cattle Egret, Grey Heron, Intermediate Egret,
Common Kestrel, Osprey, Black Kite, Goshawk, Brown-cheeked Rail, Eurasian Moorhen, Pacific Golden-Plover, Long-billed Plover,
Whimbrel, Green Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Grey-tailed Tattler, Common Sandpiper, Long-toed Stint, Oriental Pratincole,
Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, House Swift, Common Kingfisher, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Bull-headed Shrike, Azure-winged Magpie,
South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Japanese Tit, Asian House Martin, Japanese Skylark, Zitting Cisticola,
Japanese Bush Warbler, Masked Laughingthrush, Chinese Hwamei, Honshu White-eye, Chestnut-cheeked Starling, White-cheeked Starling,
Pale Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Dusky Thrush, Red-bellied Rock Thrush, Eurasian Tree Sparrow,
Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Common Chaffinch, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Japanese Hawfinch,
Chinese Grosbeak/Yellow-billed Grosbeak, Japanese Grosbeak, Meadow Bunting, Rustic Bunting, Masked Bunting

D1-20. Island Jogashima (Kanagawa)

- See-bird watching at the island located at the entrance of the Tokyo Bay, suburb of the metropolitan Tokyo.
- Best season: February to May
- Past trip report: 2018 March 13
Here we have chance to see
Red-throated Loon/Red-throated Diver (migrant), Black-throated Loon/Black-throated Diver/Arctic Loon (Green-throated) (migrant), Pacific Loon/Pacific Diver (migrant), Holboll's Grebe (migrant),
Great Crested Grebe (winter/migrant), Black-footed Albatross (migrant), Laysan Albatross (migrant),
Flesh-footed Shearwater (migrant), Sooty Shearwater (migrant), Short-tailed Shearwater (migrant),
Streaked Shearwater (migrant/summer), Northern Fulmar (Pacific) (migrant), Bulwer's Petrel (migrant), Tristram's Petrel (migrant),
Indo-pacific Brown Booby (migrant), Great Cormorant, Japanese Cormorant (winter), Grey Heron, Pacific Reef Heron/Pacific Reef-Egret, Little Egret,
Eastern Great Egret (A.modesta), Eurasian Great Egret (A.a.alba)(winter/migrant), Red-breasted Merganser (winter/migrant),
Black Scoter (winter/migrant), Asiatic Scoter (winter/migrant), Black Kite, Osprey, Eastern Peregrine Falcon,
Red-necked Phalarope (migrant), Red Phalarope (migrant), Parasitic Skua (migrant), Long-tailed Skua (migrant),
Pomarine Jaeger/Pomarine Skua (migrant), South Polar Skua (migrant), Black-tailed Gull, Slaty-backed Gull (winter/migrant),
Kamchatka Gull (winter/migrant), Glaucous Gull (winter/migrant), Vega Gull (winter/migrant), Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake (migrant),
Common Tern (migrant), Little Tern (migrant), Aleutian Tern (migrant), Rhinoceros Auklet (migrant), North Pacific Murre (migrant),
Ancient Murrelet (migrant), Japanese Murrelet (migrant), Spectacled Guillemot (migrant), Marbled Murrelet (migrant),
Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer/migrant), Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Bull-headed Shrike,
Japanese Bush Warbler, Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Tit, Honshu White-eye, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Eurasian Tree Sparrow,
White-cheeked Starling, Japanese Jungle Crow

D1-21. Terugasaki (Kanagawa)

- Watching flocks of White-bellied Green Pigeon gather to drink sea water.
- Best season: June to August
- Past trip report: 2017 July 05
Here we have chance to see
Chinese Bamboo-Partridge, Little Grebe, Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Common Teal, Black Kite, Common Kestrel, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk,
Eurasian Moorhen, Common Snipe, Woodcock, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Japanese Wryneck, Japanese Woodpecker, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker,
Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Jungle Crow, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Tit, Varied Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Brown-eared Bulbul,
Japanese Bush Warbler, Chinese Hwamei, Honshu White-eye, Brown-headed Thrush, Pale Thrush, Dusky Thrush, White's Thrush, Daurian Redstart,
Grey-capped Greenfinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit, Japanese Hawfinch,
White-cheeked Starling, Meadow Bunting, Rustic Bunting, Masked Bunting

D1-22. Maioka Park (Kanagawa)

- Bird watching in the park preserving the traditional rural scenery with rice field, ponds and trivial woods forest.
- Best season: December to February
- Past trip report: 2016 February 07
Here we have chance to see
White-bellied Green Pigeons, Rock Pigeon, Streaked Shearwaters, Short-tailed Shearwater, Japanese Cormorant, Black-tailed Gull, Vega Gull,
Ruddy Turnstone, Common Tern, Japanese Jungle Crow, Barn Swallow (gutturalis), Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler,
Black-backed Wagtail

D1-23. Ukishima Marsh (Sizuoka)

- Bird watching in wetland located at the east of Shizuoka Prefecture.
- Best season: October to May
- Past trip report: 2018 March 14
Here we have chance to see
Japanese Quail, Green Pheasant (kigis), Gadwall (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter), Mallard (winter), Eastern Spot-billed Duck,
Northern Shoveler (winter), Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter), Little Grebe, Yellow Bittern (migrant), Black-crowned Night Heron,
Grey Heron, Eastern Purple Heron (migrant), Eurasian Great Egret (A.modesta), Eastern Great Egret (A.a.alba)(winter),
Intermediate Egret (summer), Little Egret, Great Cormorant, Common Kestrel, Merlin (winter), Eastern Peregrine Falcon (winter),
Osprey, Black Kite, Eastern Marsh-Harrier (migrant), Hen Harrier (winter), Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter),
Goshawk (winter), Japanese Buzzard (winter), Brown-cheeked Rail (winter), Ruddy-breasted Crake (winter), Eurasian Moorhen,
Common Coot, Northern Lapwing (winter), Grey-headed Lapwing, Pacific Golden-Plover (migrant), Long-billed Plover (winter),
Western Little Ringed Plover (migrant), Pheasant-tailed Jacana (migrant), Common Greater Painted-snipe (summer),
Latham's Snipe (migrant), Swinhoe's Snipe (migrant), Common Snipe (winter), Green Sandpiper (winter), Common Sandpiper,
Rock Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Common Kingfisher, Eurasian Eurasian Hoopoe (migrant), Japanese Wryneck (winter),
Great Spotted Woodpecker (winter), Bull-headed Shrike, Eastern Rook (winter), South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow,
Japanese Tit, Chinese Penduline Tit (winter), Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Asian House Martin, Japanese Skylark,
Zitting Cisticola, Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler, Oriental Reed Warbler (summer), Honshu White-eye,
White-cheeked Starling, Pale Thrush (winter), Brown-headed Thrush (winter), Dusky Thrush (winter), Daurian Redstart (winter),
Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (migrant), Red-bellied Rock Thrush, Russet Sparrow (winter), Eurasian Tree Sparrow,
Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian) (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba)(winter),
Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.minor), Meadow Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting (winter), Rustic Bunting (winter), Masked Bunting (winter),
Japanese Reed Bunting (winter), Reed Bunting (winter)

D1-24. Prefectural Ikaho Forest Park (Gunma)

- Bird watching in the highland forest in Gunma Prefecture.
- Best season: May to August
- Past trip report: 2018 August 05
Here we have chance to see
Copper Pheasant (Scintillating), Green Pheasant (kigis), Black Kite, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Grey-faced Buzzard,
Japanese Buzzard, Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis), Lessor Cuckoo, Ural Owl, Grey Nightjar, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker,
Japanese Woodpecker, Ashy Minivet, Bull-headed Shrike, Black Paradise-Flycatcher, Japanese Jay, Azure-winged Magpie, Japanese Jungle Crow,
Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Willow Tit, Barn Swallow (gutturalis), Red-rumped Swallow, Long-tailed Tit, Brown-eared Bulbul,
Asian Stubtail, Japanese Bush Warbler, Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler, Sakhalin Leaf Warbler, Eastern Crowned Warbler, Honshu White-eye,
Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Eurasian Nuthatch, Siberian Thrush, White's Thrush, Japanese Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Japanese Robin, Siberian Blue Robin,
Asian Brown Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Grey Wagtail, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Japanese Grosbeak,
Meadow Bunting


Tours in Osaka/Kyoto area
In the Osaka or Kyoto area, more than two days trip in the combination of the following individual trips (D2-xx) or the sites of the adjacent area will be arranged.

D2-1. Osaka Castle Park (Osaka)

- Birding at forests and moats in the park.
- Best season: September to May
- Past trip report: 2017 February 25, 2017 April 08 - 09, 2017 October 01
Here we have chance to see
Mandarin Duck (winter), Gadwall (winter), Falcated Duck (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter), Mallard (winter),
Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler (winter), Northern Pintail (winter), Garganey (migrant), Baikal Teal (winter),
Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter), Red-crested Pochard (winter), Pochard (winter), Baer's Pochard (winter), Ferruginous Pochard (winter),
Ring-necked Duck (winter), Tufted Duck (winter), Greater Scaup (American) (winter), Smew (winter), Little Grebe (winter),
Holboll's Grebe (migrant), Great Crested Grebe (winter), Horned Grebe (winter), Striated Heron (amurensis) (summer),
Japanese Night-Heron (migrant), Black-crowned Night Heron (winter), Eastern Cattle Egret (migrant), Grey Heron,
Eastern Great Egret (A.modesta)(migrant), Little Egret, Great Cormorant (winter), Common Kestrel (winter),
Eastern Peregrine Falcon (winter), Siberian Honey-buzzard (migrant), Black Kite (migrant), Japanese Sparrowhawk (winter),
Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter), Goshawk (winter), Grey-faced Buzzard (migrant), Japanese Buzzard (winter),
Eurasian Moorhen (winter), Common Coot (winter), Grey-headed Lapwing (migrant), Pacific Golden-Plover (migrant),
Western Little Ringed Plover (migrant), European Woodcock (migrant), Whimbrel (migrant), Common Sandpiper (migrant),
Black-tailed Gull (migrant), Kamchatka Gull (winter), Vega Gull (winter), Slaty-backed Gull (winter),
Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter), Little Tern (summer), Whiskered Tern (migrant), Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove,
White-bellied Green-Pigeon (migrant), Northern Hawk-Cuckoo (migrant), Eastern Common Cuckoo (migrant), Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo (migrant),
Lessor Cuckoo (migrant), Oriental Scope-Owl (migrant), Ural Owl (migrant), Northern Boobook (migrant), Grey Nightjar (migrant),
Pacific Swift (kanoi) (migrant), House Swift, Oriental Dollarbird/Dollarbird (migrant), Ruddy Kingfisher (migrant),
Common Kingfisher (winter), Eurasian Eurasian Hoopoe (migrant), Japanese Wryneck (migrant), Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker,
Great Spotted Woodpecker (winter), Japanese Woodpecker (winter), Ashy Minivet (migrant), Ryukyu Minivet (winter),
Tiger Shrike (migrant), Bull-headed Shrike (winter), Black-naped Oriole (migrant), Black Paradise-Flycatcher (migrant),
Japanese Jay (migrant), South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Bohemian Waxwing (migrant), Japanese Waxwing (migrant),
Japanese Tit, Coal Tit (winter), Varied Tit (winter), Willow Tit (winter), Kamchatka Sand Martin (migrant),
Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Red-rumped Swallow (migrant), Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail (migrant),
Japanese Bush Warbler, Lanceolated Warbler (migrant), Middendorff's Warbler (migrant), Sakhalin grasshopper warbler (migrant),
Oriental Reed Warbler (migrant), Black-browed Reed Warbler (migrant), Yellow-browed Warbler (winter), Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler (migrant),
Kamchatka Leaf Warbler (migrant), Sakhalin Leaf Warbler (migrant), Eastern Crowned Warbler (migrant), Honshu White-eye,
Goldcrest (migrant), Eurasian Wren (fumigatus) (winter), Chestnut-cheeked Starling (migrant), White-cheeked Starling, Siberian Common Starling (winter),
Siberian Thrush (migrant), White's Thrush (winter), Grey-backed Thrush (migrant), Japanese Thrush (migrant), Eyebrowed Thrush (migrant),
Pale Thrush (winter), Brown-headed Thrush (winter), Dusky Thrush (winter), Song Thrush (migrant), Japanese Robin (migrant),
Greater Kamchatkan Rubythroat (migrant), Siberian Blue Robin (migrant), Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin (migrant), Daurian Redstart (winter),
Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (migrant), Red-bellied Rock Thrush (migrant), Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant), Dark-sided Flycatcher (migrant),
Asian Brown Flycatcher (migrant), Yellow-rumped Flycatcher (migrant), Narcissus Flycatcher (migrant), Mugimaki Flycatcher (migrant),
Red-breasted Flycatcher (winter), Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (migrant), Russet Sparrow (migrant), Eurasian Tree Sparrow,
Japanese Accentor (migrant), Grey Wagtail (winter), Black-backed Wagtail (winter), Japanese Wagtail (winter), Olive-backed Pipit (migrant),
Brambling (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (A.a.kawarahiba)(winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (A.a.minor), Eurasian Siskin (winter),
Long-tailed Rosefinch (migrant), Grey-bellied Bullfinch (migrant), Japanese Hawfinch (winter), Chinese Grosbeak/Yellow-billed Grosbeak (winter),
Japanese Grosbeak (winter), Meadow Bunting (winter), Rustic Bunting (migrant), Yellow-headed Bunting (migrant), Chestnut Bunting (migrant),
Yellow Bunting (migrant), Masked Bunting (winter), Grey Bunting (migrant)

D2-2. Oizumi Ryokuchi Park (Osaka)

- Birding at forests and pond in the park.
- Best season: November to March
- Past trip report: 2018 January 13
Here we have chance to see
Mandarin Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, American Wigeon, Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler, Baikal Teal, Eurasian Teal/Common Teal,
Pochard, Baer's Pochard, Tufted Duck, Smew, Little Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Grey Heron, Little Egret, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk,
Goshawk, Brown-cheeked Rail, Baillon's Crake, Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot, Grey-headed Lapwing, Vega Gull, Siberian Black-headed Gull,
Whiskered Tern, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Northern Long-eared Owl, Grey Nightjar, Common Kingfisher, Japanese Wryneck,
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Bull-headed Shrike, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Japanese Waxwing, Japanese Tit, Varied Tit,
Chinese Penduline Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler, Yellow-browed Warbler, Honshu White-eye,
Goldcrest, White-cheeked Starling, White's Thrush, Pale Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Dusky Thrush, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin,
Daurian Redstart, Grey-streaked Flycatcher, Dark-sided Flycatcher, Mugimaki Flycatcher, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Eurasian Tree Sparrow,
Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Brambling, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Eurasian Siskin, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Japanese Hawfinch,
Chinese Grosbeak/Yellow-billed Grosbeak, Japanese Grosbeak, Rustic Bunting, Masked Bunting, Reed Bunting

D2-3. Osaka Nanko Bird Sanctuary (Osaka)

- Shorebird watching at the tidal flat located at the Osaka bay.
- Best season: August to Oct (autumn migration), December to February (winter), March to May (spring migration)
- Past trip report: 2017 May 20, 2017 September 18, 2017 December 16
Here we have chance to see
Common Shelduck (winter), Gadwall (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter), Mallard (winter), Eastern Spot-billed Duck,
Northern Pintail (winter), Garganey (migrant), Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter), Pochard (winter), Tufted Duck (winter),
Greater Scaup (American) (winter), Common Goldeneye (winter), Little Grebe, Striated Heron (amurensis) (migrant),
Black-crowned Night Heron (winter), Eastern Cattle Egret (migrant), Grey Heron, Eastern Great Egret (summer),
Intermediate Egret (migrant), Little Egret, Pacific Reef Heron/Pacific Reef-Egret (migrant), Great Cormorant, Common Kestrel (winter),
Eastern Peregrine Falcon (migrant), Osprey, Black Kite, Eastern Marsh-Harrier (winter), Hen Harrier (winter),
Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter), Goshawk, Japanese Buzzard (winter), Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot,
Black-winged Stilt (winter), Pacific Golden-Plover (migrant), Grey Plover (winter), Western Little Ringed Plover (summer),
Kentish Plover, Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni) (migrant), European Woodcock (winter), Common Snipe (winter),
Eastern Black-tailed Godwit (migrant), Whimbrel (summer), Eastern Eurasian Curlew (migrant), Far Eastern Curlew (migrant),
Spotted Redshank (winter), Central Asian Common Redshank (migrant), Marsh Sandpiper (migrant), Common Greenshank (migrant),
Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant), Terek Sandpiper (migrant), Common Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone (migrant), Great Knot (migrant),
Red Knot (rogersi) (migrant), Red-necked Stint (migrant), Little Stint (winter), Temminck's Stint (migrant), Long-toed Stint (migrant),
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (migrant), Siberian Dunlin (winter), Black-tailed Gull, Kamchatka Gull (winter), Vega Gull (winter),
Slaty-backed Gull (winter), Siberian Black-headed Gull, Saunder's Gull (winter), Common Tern (migrant), Little Tern (summer),
Whiskered Tern (summer), Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Common Kingfisher (migrant), Japanese Wryneck (winter),
Ashy Minivet (migrant), Bull-headed Shrike (winter), Black Paradise-Flycatcher (migrant), South Asian Carrion Crow,
Japanese Jungle Crow, Japanese Tit (winter), Varied Tit (winter), Chinese Penduline Tit (migrant), Kamchatka Sand Martin (migrant),
Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Japanese Skylark, Zitting Cisticola, Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail (migrant),
Japanese Bush Warbler (winter), Oriental Reed Warbler (winter), Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler (migrant), Kamchatka Leaf Warbler (migrant),
Sakhalin Leaf Warbler (migrant), Eastern Crowned Warbler (migrant), Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest (winter),
Chestnut-cheeked Starling (migrant), White-cheeked Starling, Siberian Thrush (migrant), Japanese Thrush (migrant),
Eyebrowed Thrush (migrant), Pale Thrush (winter), Brown-headed Thrush (winter), Dusky Thrush (winter), Japanese Robin (migrant),
Siberian Blue Robin (migrant), Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin (winter), Daurian Redstart (winter), Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (migrant),
Red-bellied Rock Thrush (winter), Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant), Dark-sided Flycatcher (migrant),
Asian Brown Flycatcher (migrant), Narcissus Flycatcher (migrant), Mugimaki Flycatcher (migrant),
Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (migrant), Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Black-backed Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit (migrant),
Brambling (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba)(winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.minor), Eurasian Siskin (winter),
Long-tailed Rosefinch (winter), Meadow Bunting (winter), Yellow Bunting (migrant), Masked Bunting (winter), Reed Bunting (winter)

D2-4. Mt. Kongo (Osaka, Nara)

- Birding at sacred forests of Mt. Kongo (1,125 meters).
- Best season: October to July
- Past trip report: 2017 May 21
Here we have chance to see
Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon (summer), Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo (summer), Lessor Cuckoo (summer),
Pacific Swift (kanoi) (summer), Japanese Wryneck (winter), Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker (winter),
Japanese Woodpecker, Ashy Minivet (summer), Bull-headed Shrike (winter), Japanese Jay (summer), South Asian Carrion Crow,
Japanese Jungle Crow, Japanese Waxwing (winter), Japanese Tit (summer), Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Willow Tit,
Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Asian House Martin (summer), Long-tailed Tit (summer), Brown-eared Bulbul (summer),
Asian Stubtail (summer), Japanese Bush Warbler (summer), Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler (summer), Eastern Crowned Warbler (summer),
Red-billed Leiothrix (summer), Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest (winter), Eurasian Wren (fumigatus) (summer), Eurasian Nuthatch (summer),
Treecreeper (winter), White's Thrush (summer), Japanese Thrush (summer), Asian Brown Flycatcher (summer),
Narcissus Flycatcher (summer), Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (summer), Grey Wagtail (summer), Black-backed Wagtail (summer),
Grey-capped Greenfinch (summer), Japanese Grosbeak (summer), Meadow Bunting

D2-5. Mt. Katsuragi (Osaka, Wakayama)

- Birding at sacred forests of Mt. Katsuragi (858 metres).
- Best season: November to June
- Past trip report: 2017 December 23
Here we have chance to see
Osprey, Black Kite, Grey-faced Buzzard (migrant), Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon (summer),
Eastern Common Cuckoo (summer), Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo (summer), Lessor Cuckoo (summer), Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker,
Great Spotted Woodpecker, Japanese Woodpecker, Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Jay (summer), Japanese Jungle Crow,
Japanese Waxwing (winter), Varied Tit, Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Red-rumped Swallow (summer), Long-tailed Tit (summer),
Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail (summer), Japanese Bush Warbler, Sakhalin Leaf Warbler (winter),
Eastern Crowned Warbler (summer), Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Japanese Thrush (summer), Pale Thrush (winter), Dusky Thrush (winter),
Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin (winter), Daurian Redstart (winter), Narcissus Flycatcher (summer), Brown Dipper,
Japanese Accentor (winter), Olive-backed Pipit (winter), Brambling (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (summer),
Asian Rosy-Finch (brunneonucha) (winter), Long-tailed Rosefinch (winter), Pallas' Rosefinch (winter), Grey-bellied Bullfinch (winter),
Japanese Grosbeak (summer), Meadow Bunting (summer), Rustic Bunting (winter), Yellow-headed Bunting (winter),
Masked Bunting (winter), Grey Bunting (winter)

D2-6. Kyoto Imperial Palace (Kyoto)

- Birding at forest of the park around palaces of the Emperor of Japan.
- Best season: October to May
- Past trip report: 2018 January 31, 2017 October 24
Here we have chance to see
Eurasian Wigeon (winter), Mallard (winter), Eastern Spot-billed Duck (winter),
Grey Heron, Eastern Great Egret (winter), Little Egret (winter), Great Cormorant,
Goshawk (winter), Black Kite, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter), Common Sandpiper (winter), Rock Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove,
White-bellied Green Pigeon, Northern Boobook (summer), Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Japanese Woodpecker, Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer),
Common Kingfisher, Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Jungle Crow, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Tit, Varied Tit, Long-tailed Tit (winter),
Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler, Kamchatka Leaf Warbler (winter), Honshu White-eye, White-cheeked Starling,
White's Thrush (winter), Pale Thrush (winter), Brown-headed Thrush (winter), Dusky Thrush (winter), Naumann's Thrush (migrant),
Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin (winter), Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant), Asian Brown Flycatcher (migrant), Narcissus Flycatcher (migrant),
Mugimaki Flycatcher (migrant), Daurian Redstart (winter), Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail,
Olive-backed Pipit (winter), Brambling (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (winter), Japanese Grosbeak, Rustic Bunting (winter), Masked Bunting (winter)

D2-7. Kita-Saga (Kyoto)

- Birding at ponds and farm fields near Daikaku-ji Temple.
- Best season: September to June
- Past trip report: 2018 January 07, 2018 May 21-22
Here we have chance to see
Mallard (winter), Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter), Tufted Duck (winter), Pochard (winter), Little Grebe,
Great Cormorant, Grey Heron, Great Egret (winter), Intermediate Egret (summer), Little Egret, Eurasian Coot, Grey-headed Lapwing,
Long-billed Plover (winter), Western Osprey (winter), Black Kite, Goshawk, Common Kingfisher,
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Northern Boobook (summer), Long-tailed Tit, Bull-headed Shrike,
South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Japanese Tit, Varied Tit, Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Asian House Martin (summer),
Japanese Skylark, Brown-eared Bulbul, Honshu White-eye, White-cheeked Starling,
Dusky Thrush (winter), Japanese Bush Warbler, Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (migrant), Eurasian Tree Sparrow,
Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian), Grey-capped Greenfinch, Meadow Bunting (winter),
Rustic Bunting (winter), Masked Bunting (winter)

D2-8. Hodzu River Wildlife Sanctuary (Kyoto)

- Birding at grass field and paddy field along Hodzu River.
- Best season: May to June
- Past trip report: 2018 May 21-22
Here we have chance to see
Green Pheasant, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Eastern Cattle Egret, Grey Heron, Eastern Great Egret, Intermediate Egret,
Great Cormorant, Common Kestrel, Black Kite, Long-billed Plover, Grey-headed Lapwing, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove,
White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Lessor Cuckoo, Common Kingfisher, Bull-headed Shrike, South Asian Carrion Crow,
Japanese Jungle Crow, Barn Swallow (gutturalis), Asian House Martin, Red-rumped Swallow, Japanese Skylark, Zitting Cisticola,
Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler, Oriental Reed Warbler, Eastern Crowned Warbler, Honshu White-eye,
White-cheeked Starling, Red-bellied Rock Thrush, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Eurasian Tree Sparrow,
Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Meadow Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting

D2-9. Mt. Hiei (Kyoto)

- Birding at sacred forest of Mt. Hiei.
- Best season: March to July, September to November
- Past trip report: 2018 May 21-22
Here we have chance to see
Chinese Bamboo-Partridge, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Hobby Falco, Siberian Honey-buzzard, Black Kite, Japanese Sparrowhawk,
Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis), Rock Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Northern Hawk-Cuckoo,
Eastern Common Cuckoo, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Northern Hawk-Cuckoo, Lessor Cuckoo, Ruddy Kingfisher, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker,
White-backed Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Japanese Woodpecker, Ashy Minivet, Bull-headed Shrike,
Black Paradise-Flycatcher, Japanese Jay, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow,
Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Barn Swallow (gutturalis), Asian House Martin, Red-rumped Swallow,
Long-tailed Tit, Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail, Japanese Bush Warbler, Sakhalin Leaf Warbler,
Eastern Crowned Warbler, Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Treecreeper, Japanese Thrush, Siberian Blue Robin,
Asian Brown Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher, Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Eurasian Tree Sparrow,
Grey Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Japanese Grosbeak, Meadow Bunting

D2-10. Kusatu-oroshimono (Shiga)

- Watching birds in fresh water, reed field, forest and paddy field at the coaast of Biwa Lake.
- Best season: all year around
- Past trip report: 2016 September 19
Here we have chance to see
Green Pheasant (kigis) (summer), Gadwall (winter), Falcated Duck (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter),
Mallard (winter), Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler (winter), Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter), Pochard (winter),
Tufted Duck (winter), Greater Scaup (American) (winter), Common Goldeneye (winter), Smew (winter), Little Grebe,
Great Crested Grebe, Black-necked Grebe (winter), Eastern Cattle Egret (summer), Grey Heron, Eastern Great Egret,
Intermediate Egret (summer), Great Cormorant, Common Kestrel, Merlin (winter), Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Black Kite,
Eastern Marsh-Harrier, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter), Goshawk , Grey-faced Buzzard (migrant),
Japanese Buzzard, Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot, Northern Lapwing (winter), Grey-headed Lapwing,
Western Little Ringed Plover (summer), Common Snipe (winter), Kamchatka Gull (winter), Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter),
Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Bull-headed Shrike, Eastern Rook (winter), South Asian Carrion Crow, Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer),
Japanese Skylark, Zitting Cisticola (summer), Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler (winter),
Oriental Reed Warbler (summer), Chestnut-cheeked Starling (migrant), White-cheeked Starling, Pale Thrush (winter),
Dusky Thrush (winter), Daurian Redstart (winter), Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail,
Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba)(winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.minor)(summer), Long-tailed Rosefinch (winter),
Meadow Bunting, Rustic Bunting (winter), Masked Bunting (winter), Reed Bunting (winter)

D2-11. Lake Nishinoko (Shiga)

- Birding at Ramseur wetland around Lake Nishinoko.
- Best season: October to March
- Past trip report: 2017 February 04
Here we have chance to see
Taiga Bean Goose (Middendorff's), Mandarin Duck, Gadwall, Falcated Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck,
Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Baikal Teal, Eurasian Teal/Common Teal, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Smew, Common Merganser/Goosander,
Little Grebe, Grey Heron, Eurasian Great Egret, Little Egret, Great Cormorant, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey,
Black Kite, Goshawk, Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot, Common Kingfisher, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker,
Bull-headed Shrike, Eastern Rook, Japanese Tit, Varied Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Brown-eared Bulbul,
Honshu White-eye, Pale Thrush, Dusky Thrush, Daurian Redstart, Japanese Wagtail, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Meadow Bunting,
Rustic Bunting, Masked Bunting

D2-12. Kohoku Wild-Bird Center (Shiga)

- Birding at Lake Biwa, paddy fiels and Mt. Yamamotoyama.
- One or two days trip is recommended.
- Best season: October to March
- Past trip report: 2018 February 23-24
Here we have chance to see
Japanese Quail (summer), Green Pheasant (kigis), Taiga Bean Goose (Middendorff's) (winter), Bean Goose (winter),
Greylag Goose (Siberian) (winter), Greater White-fronted Goose (Tundra) (winter), Snow Goose (Lesser) (winter), Cackling Goose (Aleutian) (winter),
Canada Goose (Moffit's), Black Brant (winter), Whooper Swan (winter), Tundra Swan/Tundra Swan/Bewick's Swan (winter), Common Shelduck (migrant),
Ruddy Shelduck (migrant), Mandarin Duck (winter), Gadwall (winter), Falcated Duck (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter),
American Wigeon (winter), Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler (winter), Northern Pintail (winter),
Garganey (migrant), Baikal Teal (winter), Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter), Red-crested Pochard (winter), Pochard (winter),
Baer's Pochard (winter), Ferruginous Pochard (winter), Tufted Duck (winter), Greater Scaup (American) (winter), Common Goldeneye (winter),
Smew (winter), Common Merganser/Goosander (winter), Red-breasted Merganser (winter), Black-throated Loon/Black-throated Diver/Arctic Loon (Green-throated) (winter),
Streaked Shearwater (migrant), Little Grebe, Holboll's Grebe (winter), Great Crested Grebe (winter), Horned Grebe (winter),
Black-necked Grebe (winter), Eurasian Spoonbill (winter), Eurasian Bittern/Great Bittern (winter), Yellow Bittern (summer),
Striated Heron (amurensis) (summer), Black-crowned Night Heron (summer), Eastern Cattle Egret (summer), Grey Heron,
Eastern Purple Heron (migrant), Eurasian Great Egret (A.a.alba)(winter), Eastern Great Egret (A.modesta)(summer),
Intermediate Egret (summer), Little Egret, Pacific Reef Heron/Pacific Reef-Egret (migrant), Chinese Egret (migrant), Great Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant (winter),
Common Kestrel (winter), Merlin (winter), Northern Hobby (migrant), Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey,
Siberian Honey-buzzard (migrant), Black Kite, White-tailed Eagle (winter), Steller's Sea-Eagle (winter),
Eastern Marsh-Harrier (winter), Hen Harrier (winter), Japanese Sparrowhawk (migrant), Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter),
Goshawk, Grey-faced Buzzard (migrant), Japanese Buzzard (winter), Siberian Rough-legged Hawk (winter), Japanese Golden Eagle,
Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis), Brown-cheeked Rail (winter), White-breasted Waterken (migrant), Ruddy-breasted Crake, Eurasian Moorhen,
Common Coot, White-naped Crane (migrant), Hooded Crane (migrant), Black-winged Stilt (migrant), Northern Lapwing (winter),
Grey-headed Lapwing, Pacific Golden-Plover (migrant), Grey Plover (migrant), Long-billed Plover, Western Little Ringed Plover (summer),
Kentish Plover (migrant), Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni) (migrant), Pheasant-tailed Jacana (migrant), Common Greater Painted-snipe,
European Woodcock (winter), Latham's Snipe (migrant), Swinhoe's Snipe (migrant), Common Snipe (winter),
Long-billed Dowitcher (migrant), Eastern Black-tailed Godwit (migrant), Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit (migrant), Whimbrel (migrant),
Far Eastern Curlew (migrant), Spotted Redshank (migrant), Marsh Sandpiper (migrant), Common Greenshank (migrant),
Green Sandpiper (migrant), Wood Sandpiper (migrant), Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant), Terek Sandpiper (migrant),
Common Sandpiper (migrant), Ruddy Turnstone (migrant), Great Knot (migrant), Red-necked Stint (migrant), Pectoral Sandpiper (migrant),
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (migrant), Curlew Sandpiper (migrant), Ruff (migrant), Red-necked Phalarope (migrant), Red Phalarope (migrant),
Black-tailed Gull, Kamchatka Gull (winter), Glaucous-winged Gull (winter), Glaucous Gull (winter), Vega Gull (winter),
Slaty-backed Gull (winter), Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter), Saunder's Gull (winter), Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake (winter),
Common Tern (migrant), Little Tern (migrant), Whiskered Tern (migrant), White-winged Tern (migrant), Pomarine Jaeger/Pomarine Skua (migrant),
Parasitic Jaeger/Arctic Skua(migrant), Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Eastern Common Cuckoo (migrant),
Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo (migrant), Lessor Cuckoo (migrant), Ural Owl, Northern Boobook (summer), Northern Long-eared Owl (winter),
Short-eared Owl (winter), Northern White-throated Needletail (summer), Pacific Swift (kanoi) (summer), House Swift (summer),
Ruddy Kingfisher (summer), Black-capped Kingfisher (migrant), Common Kingfisher, Eurasian Hoopoe (migrant), Japanese Wryneck (winter),
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker (winter), Japanese Woodpecker (winter), Ashy Minivet (migrant),
Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Jay (migrant), Daurian Jackdaw (winter), Eastern Rook (winter), South Asian Carrion Crow,
Japanese Jungle Crow, Bohemian Waxwing (winter), Japanese Waxwing (winter), Japanese Tit, Coal Tit (winter), Varied Tit (migrant),
Chinese Penduline Tit (migrant), Kamchatka Sand Martin (migrant), Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Asian House Martin (summer),
Red-rumped Swallow (summer), Long-tailed Tit, Japanese Skylark, Zitting Cisticola (summer), Brown-eared Bulbul,
Japanese Bush Warbler, Middendorff's Warbler (migrant), Oriental Reed Warbler (summer), Black-browed Reed Warbler (migrant),
Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler (migrant), Kamchatka Leaf Warbler (migrant), Sakhalin Leaf Warbler (migrant), Eastern Crowned Warbler (migrant),
Honshu White-eye, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus) (winter), Chestnut-cheeked Starling (migrant), White-cheeked Starling, Siberian Common Starling (winter),
White's Thrush (winter), Japanese Thrush (migrant), Eyebrowed Thrush (migrant), Pale Thrush (winter), Brown-headed Thrush (winter),
Dusky Thrush (winter), Japanese Robin (migrant), Greater Kamchatkan Rubythroat (migrant), Siberian Blue Robin (migrant),
Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin (winter), Daurian Redstart (winter), Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (migrant), Red-bellied Rock Thrush,
Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant), Asian Brown Flycatcher (migrant), Narcissus Flycatcher (migrant), Mugimaki Flycatcher (migrant),
Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (migrant), Russet Sparrow (migrant), Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail,
Japanese Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit (winter), Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian) (winter), Brambling (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s,minor)'summer),
Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba)(winter), Eurasian Siskin (winter), Asian Rosy-Finch (brunneonucha) (winter), Long-tailed Rosefinch (winter),
Red Crossbill (migrant), Grey-bellied Bullfinch (winter), Eurasian Bullfinch (winter), Japanese Hawfinch (winter),
Chinese Grosbeak/Yellow-billed Grosbeak (winter), Japanese Grosbeak, Western Pine Bunting (migrant), Meadow Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting (winter),
Rustic Bunting (winter), Yellow-headed Bunting (winter), Yellow Bunting (migrant), Masked Bunting (winter), Reed Bunting (winter)



Longer Tours in Hokkaido

L1-1. Hokkaido by Ferry boat

- See bird-watching on the ferry boat to/from Oarai (Ibaragi) and Tomakomai (Hokkaido).
- Three or four days trip including two-night stay on the boat.
- Best season: all season.
- Past trip report: 2018 June 30, July 03
We have chance to see
Red-throated Loon/Red-throated Diver (autumn), Pacific Loon/Pacific Diver (spring, autumn, winter), Laysan Albatross, Black-footed Albatross (spring, summer, autumn),
Short-Tailed Albatross (spring, autumn), Streaked Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater (spring), Flesh-footed Shearwater(spring, summer, autumn),
Short-tailed Shearwater (spring, autumn), Buller's Shearwater (autumn), Northern Fulmar (Pacific) (spring, summer, autumn),
Leach's Storm-Petrel (summer), Northern Pintail (autumn), Black Scoter (autumn), Mallard (autumn), Red-necked Phalarope (spring, summer),
Red Phalarope (spring, summer, autumn), South Polar Skua (spring, summer), Pomarine Jaeger/Pomarine Skua (spring, autumn), Black-tailed Gull,
Vega Gull (autumn), Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake (autumn), Slaty-backed Gull (winter), Kamchatka Gull (winter), Common Tern (spring),
Ancient Murrelet (spring, autumn, winter), Thick-billed Murre/Brunnich's Guillemot/Thick-billed Murre (arra) (spring, winter), Rhinoceros Auklet (spring, autumn), Crested Auklet (winter),
Least Auklet (winter), Horned Puffin (summer)

L1-2. Eastern area of Hokkaido (Kushiro, Nemuro) in Summer

- Birding at the wet lands, grass fields, farm fields, forests, lakes, ponds, rivers and seashores in Kushiro and Nemuro, eastern area of Hokkaido.
- More than four days trip is recommended.
- Best season: June to August
- Past trip report: 2018 June 15-27
We have chance to see
Hazel Grouse, Japanese Quail, Common Pheasant (Korean), Gadwall, Falcated Duck, Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Garganey,
Greater Scaup (American), Red-throated Loon/Red-throated Diver, Black-throated Loon/Black-throated Diver/Arctic Loon (Green-throated), Pacific Loon/Pacific Diver, Yellow-billed Loon/White-billed Diver, Short-tailed Shearwater,
Little Grebe, Holboll's Grebe, Eurasian Bittern/Great Bittern, Grey Heron, Japanese Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant, Red-faced Cormorant, Northern Hobby,
Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Siberian Honey-buzzard, Black Kite, White-tailed Eagle, Eastern Marsh-Harrier, Japanese Sparrowhawk,
Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Japanese Buzzard, Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis), Brown-cheeked Rail, Ruddy-breasted Crake, Eurasian Moorhen,
Common Coot, Long-billed Plover, Western Little Ringed Plover, European Woodcock, Latham's Snipe, Central Asian Common Redshank,
Grey-tailed Tattler, Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Gull, Slaty-backed Gull, Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake, Spectacled Guillemot,
Ancient Murrelet, Least Auklet, Rhinoceros Auklet, Tufted Puffin, Horned Puffin, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon,
Northern Hawk-Cuckoo, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Japanese Scops-Owl, Oriental Scope-Owl, Blakiston's Fish-Owl, Hokkaido Ural Owl,
Northern White-throated Needletail, Pacific Swift (Northern), Ruddy Kingfisher, Common Kingfisher, Crested Kingfisher, Japanese Wryneck,
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, White-backed Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Common Black Woodpecker,
Grey-faced Woodpecker, Bull-headed Shrike, Brandt's Jay, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Marsh Tit,
Willow Tit, Asian House Martin, Long-tailed tit (A.c.japonicus), Japanese Skylark, Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler,
Lanceolated Warbler, Middendorff's Warbler, Sakhalin grasshopper warbler, Black-browed Reed Warbler, Sakhalin Leaf Warbler, Eastern Crowned Warbler,
Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Asian Wood Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Chestnut-cheeked Starling, White-cheeked Starling, White's Thrush,
Brown-headed Thrush, Japanese Robin, Greater Kamchatkan Rubythroat, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin, Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat, Dark-sided Flycatcher,
Asian Brown Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Russet Sparrow, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Grey Wagtail,
Black-backed Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Eurasian Siskin, Common Rosefinch, Pine Grosbeak, Red Crossbill,
Grey-bellied Bullfinch, Japanese Hawfinch, Meadow Bunting, Masked Bunting, Reed Bunting

L1-3. Eastern area of Hokkaido (Kushiro, Nemuro) in Winter

- Birding at the wet lands, grass fields, farm fields, forests, lakes, ponds, rivers and seashores in Kushiro and Nemuro, eastern area of Hokkaido.
- More than four days trip is recommended.
- Best season: November to March
- Past trip report: 2017 November 22-25
We have chance to see
Hazel Grouse, Common Pheasant (Korean), Whooper Swan, Tundra Swan/Tundra Swan/Bewick's Swan, Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler ,
Northern Pintail, Eurasian Teal/Common Teal, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Greater Scaup (American), Steller's Eider, Pacific Harlequin Duck, Surf Scoter,
Stejneger's Scoter/White-winged Scoter (Siberian), Black Scoter, Long-tailed Duck, Bufflehead, Common Goldeneye, Smew, Common Merganser/Goosander, Red-breasted Merganser,
Red-throated Loon/Red-throated Diver, Black-throated Loon/Black-throated Diver/Arctic Loon (Green-throated), Pacific Loon/Pacific Diver, Yellow-billed Loon/White-billed Diver, Great Crested Grebe, Horned Grebe, Black-necked Grebe,
Japanese Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant, Red-faced Cormorant, Common Kestrel, Merlin, Gyrfalcon, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Black Kite,
White-tailed Eagle, Steller's Sea-Eagle, Hen Harrier, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk , Japanese Buzzard,
Siberian Rough-legged Hawk, Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis), Red-crowned Crane, Solitary Snipe, Glaucous-winged Gull, Glaucous Gull, Vega Gull,
Slaty-backed Gull, Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake, Red-legged Kittiwake, North Pacific Murre, Spectacled Guillemot, Ancient Murrelet,
Crested Auklet, Tufted Puffin, Japanese Scops-Owl, Blakiston's Fish-Owl, Hokkaido Ural Owl, Short-eared Owl, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker,
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, White-backed Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Common Black Woodpecker, Grey-faced Woodpecker,
Long-tailed Shrike (Taiwan), Brandt's Jay, Eastern Rook, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Common Raven, Bohemian Waxwing,
Japanese Waxwing, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Marsh Tit, Willow Tit, Long-tailed tit (A.c.japonicus),
Brown-eared Bulbul, Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Asian Wood Nuthatch, Treecreeper, White-cheeked Starling,
Dusky Thrush, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Brambling, Eurasian Siskin, Common Redpoll, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Pallas' Rosefinch, Pine Grosbeak,
Red Crossbill, Grey-bellied Bullfinch, Eurasian Bullfinch, Lapland Longspur, Siberian Snow Bunting

L1-4. Okhotsk area of Hokkaido (Abashiri) in Summer

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- Birding at the wet lands, grass fields, farm fields, mountains, forests, lakes, ponds, rivers and seashores in Abashiri, Okhotsk area of Hokkaido.
- More than four days trip is recommended.
- Best season: June to August
- Past trip report: 2014 June 06 - 09
We have chance to see
Hazel Grouse, Japanese Quail, Common Pheasant (Korean), Falcated Duck, Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler,
Red-throated Loon/Red-throated Diver, Yellow-billed Loon/White-billed Diver, Short-tailed Shearwater, Little Grebe, Holboll's Grebe, Grey Heron, Japanese Cormorant,
Pelagic Cormorant, Northern Hobby, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Siberian Honey-buzzard, Black Kite, White-tailed Eagle,
Eastern Marsh-Harrier, Japanese Sparrowhawk, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Japanese Buzzard, Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis),
Brown-cheeked Rail, Ruddy-breasted Crake, Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot, Long-billed Plover, Western Little Ringed Plover,
European Woodcock, Latham's Snipe, Grey-tailed Tattler, Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Gull, Slaty-backed Gull, Least Auklet, Rhinoceros Auklet,
Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Northern Hawk-Cuckoo, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Japanese Scops-Owl, Oriental Scope-Owl,
Hokkaido Ural Owl, Northern Boobook, Northern White-throated Needletail, Pacific Swift (Northern), Ruddy Kingfisher, Common Kingfisher,
Crested Kingfisher, Japanese Wryneck, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, White-backed Woodpecker,
Great Spotted Woodpecker, Common Black Woodpecker, Grey-faced Woodpecker, Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Shrike, Brandt's Jay,
South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Marsh Tit, Willow Tit, Barn Swallow (gutturalis), Asian House Martin,
Long-tailed tit (A.c.japonicus), Japanese Skylark, Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail, Japanese Bush Warbler, Lanceolated Warbler,
Middendorff's Warbler, Sakhalin grasshopper warbler, Black-browed Reed Warbler, Kamchatka Leaf Warbler, Sakhalin Leaf Warbler, Eastern Crowned Warbler,
Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Asian Wood Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Chestnut-cheeked Starling, White-cheeked Starling,
Siberian Thrush, White's Thrush, Japanese Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Japanese Robin, Greater Kamchatkan Rubythroat, Siberian Blue Robin,
Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin, Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat, Red-bellied Rock Thrush, Dark-sided Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher,
Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Brown Dipper, Russet Sparrow, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail,
Black-backed Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Eurasian Siskin, Common Rosefinch, Grey-bellied Bullfinch, Japanese Hawfinch,
Meadow Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting, Masked Bunting, Reed Bunting

L1-5. Okhotsk area of Hokkaido (Abashiri) in Winter

- Birding at the wet lands, grass fields, farm fields, mountains, forests, lakes, ponds, rivers and seashores in Abashiri, Okhotsk area of Hokkaido.
- More than four days trip is recommended.
- Best season: November to January
- Past trip report: 2014 January 11 - 12
We have chance to see
Hazel Grouse, Common Pheasant (Korean), Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Eurasian Teal/Common Teal, Pochard ,
Tufted Duck, Greater Scaup (American), Steller's Eider, Pacific Harlequin Duck, Stejneger's Scoter/White-winged Scoter (Siberian), Black Scoter, Long-tailed Duck, Bufflehead,
Common Goldeneye, Smew, Common Merganser/Goosander, Red-breasted Merganser, Red-throated Loon/Red-throated Diver, Black-throated Loon/Black-throated Diver/Arctic Loon (Green-throated), Pacific Loon/Pacific Diver, Yellow-billed Loon/White-billed Diver,
Sooty Shearwater, Great Crested Grebe, Horned Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Japanese Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant, Common Kestrel,
Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Black Kite, White-tailed Eagle, Steller's Sea-Eagle, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Japanese Buzzard,
Siberian Rough-legged Hawk, Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis), Solitary Snipe, Glaucous-winged Gull, Glaucous Gull, Vega Gull, Slaty-backed Gull,
Ross's Gull, Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake, Red-legged Kittiwake, North Pacific Murre, Spectacled Guillemot, Ancient Murrelet,
Parakeet Auklet, Crested Auklet, Japanese Scops-Owl, Hokkaido Ural Owl, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker,
White-backed Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Common Black Woodpecker, Grey-faced Woodpecker, Long-tailed Shrike (Taiwan), Brandt's Jay,
Eastern Rook, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Common Raven, Bohemian Waxwing, Japanese Waxwing, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit,
Varied Tit, Marsh Tit, Willow Tit, Long-tailed tit (A.c.japonicus), Brown-eared Bulbul, Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest,
Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Asian Wood Nuthatch, Treecreeper, White-cheeked Starling, Dusky Thrush, Brown Dipper, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Brambling,
Eurasian Siskin, Common Redpoll, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Pallas' Rosefinch, Pine Grosbeak, Red Crossbill, Grey-bellied Bullfinch,
Eurasian Bullfinch, Lapland Longspur

L1-6. Offshore Islands in Japan Sea of Hokkaido (Teuri) in Spring

- Birding at remote island "Teuri" in Japan Sea Hokkaido.
- More than three days trip is recommended.
- Best season: May to June
- Past trip report: 2017 May 10-12
We have chance to see
Black Brant (Pacific), Eurasian Wigeon, Mallard, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Garganey, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Greater Scaup (American),
Pacific Harlequin Duck, Common Merganser/Goosander, Black-throated Loon/Black-throated Diver/Arctic Loon (Green-throated), Pacific Loon/Pacific Diver, Short-tailed Shearwater, Great Crested Grebe, Grey Heron,
Eurasian Great Egret, Japanese Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Black Kite, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk,
Goshawk, Japanese Buzzard, Black-winged Stilt, Northern Lapwing, Pacific Golden-Plover, Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni), Common Snipe,
Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, Marsh Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, Wood Sandpiper, Grey-tailed Tattler, Terek Sandpiper,
Ruddy Turnstone, Red-necked Stint, Siberian Dunlin, Red-necked Phalarope, Kamchatka Gull, Slaty-backed Gull, Siberian Black-headed Gull,
Common Tern, North Pacific Murre, Rhinoceros Auklet, Japanese Scops-Owl, Northern White-throated Needletail, Black-capped Kingfisher,
Eurasian Hoopoe, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Brandt's Jay, Eastern Rook, South Asian Carrion Crow,
Japanese Jungle Crow, Bohemian Waxwing, Japanese Waxwing, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Marsh Tit, Willow Tit, Long-tailed tit (A.c.japonicus),
Brown-eared Bulbul, Kamchatka Leaf Warbler, Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Asian Wood Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Chestnut-cheeked Starling,
White-cheeked Starling, Eyebrowed Thrush, Pale Thrush, Dusky Thrush, Japanese Robin, Greater Kamchatkan Rubythroat, Siberian Blue Robin,
Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin, Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat, Dark-sided Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher, Mugimaki Flycatcher,
Taiga Flycatcher, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian), Brambling, Eurasian Siskin,
Common Rosefinch, Grey-bellied Bullfinch, Japanese Hawfinch, Chinese Grosbeak/Yellow-billed Grosbeak, Little Bunting, Rustic Bunting,
Western Black-faced Bunting

L1-7. Northern area of Hokkaido (Rumoi) in Summer

- Birding at the wet lands, grass fields, farm fields, forests, lakes, ponds, rivers, seashores and remote islands in Rumoi, northern area of Hokkaido.
- More than four days trip is recommended.
- Best season: June to August
- Past trip report: 2017 June 24-26
We have chance to see
Hazel Grouse, Japanese Quail, Falcated Duck, Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler, Pacific Harlequin Duck, Common Merganser/Goosander,
Short-tailed Shearwater, Little Grebe, Holboll's Grebe, Grey Heron, Japanese Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant, Northern Hobby,
Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Siberian Honey-buzzard, Black Kite, White-tailed Eagle, Eastern Marsh-Harrier, Japanese Sparrowhawk,
Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Japanese Buzzard, Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis), Brown-cheeked Rail, Ruddy-breasted Crake, Eurasian Moorhen,
Common Coot, Long-billed Plover, Western Little Ringed Plover, European Woodcock, Latham's Snipe, Grey-tailed Tattler, Common Sandpiper,
Black-tailed Gull, Slaty-backed Gull, North Pacific Murre, Spectacled Guillemot, Ancient Murrelet, Least Auklet, Rhinoceros Auklet,
Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Northern Hawk-Cuckoo, orsfield's Cuckoo (Oriental Cuckoo), Japanese Scops-Owl,
Oriental Scope-Owl, Hokkaido Ural Owl, Northern Boobook, Northern White-throated Needletail, Pacific Swift (Northern), Ruddy Kingfisher,
Common Kingfisher, Crested Kingfisher, Japanese Wryneck, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, White-backed Woodpecker,
Great Spotted Woodpecker, Common Black Woodpecker, Grey-faced Woodpecker, Ashy Minivet, Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Shrike, Brandt's Jay,
South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Marsh Tit, Willow Tit, Barn Swallow (gutturalis), Asian House Martin,
Long-tailed tit (A.c.japonicus), Japanese Skylark, Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail, Japanese Bush Warbler, Lanceolated Warbler,
Middendorff's Warbler, Sakhalin grasshopper warbler, Black-browed Reed Warbler, Sakhalin Leaf Warbler, Eastern Crowned Warbler, Honshu White-eye,
Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Asian Wood Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Chestnut-cheeked Starling, White-cheeked Starling, Siberian Thrush, White's Thrush,
Brown-headed Thrush, Japanese Robin, Greater Kamchatkan Rubythroat, Siberian Blue Robin, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin, Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat,
Dark-sided Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Brown Dipper, Russet Sparrow,
Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Eurasian Siskin,
Common Rosefinch, Grey-bellied Bullfinch, Japanese Hawfinch, Chinese Grosbeak/Yellow-billed Grosbeak, Meadow Bunting, Yellow-breasted Bunting,
Masked Bunting, Reed Bunting

L1-8. Northern Central area of Hokkaido (Kamikawa) in Summer

- Birding at the wet lands, grass fields, farm fields, forests, mountains, lakes, ponds and rivers in Kamikawa, northern central area of Hokkaido.
- More than three days trip is recommended.
- Best season: June to August
- Past trip report: 2017 June 22-24
We have chance to see
Hazel Grouse, Japanese Quail, Common Pheasant (Korean), Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Common Merganser/Goosander, Little Grebe, Grey Heron,
Northern Hobby, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Siberian Honey-buzzard, Black Kite, Eastern Marsh-Harrier, Japanese Sparrowhawk,
Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Japanese Buzzard, Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis), Brown-cheeked Rail, Ruddy-breasted Crake, Eurasian Moorhen,
Common Coot, Long-billed Plover, Western Little Ringed Plover, European Woodcock, Latham's Snipe, Grey-tailed Tattler, Common Sandpiper,
Slaty-backed Gull, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Northern Hawk-Cuckoo, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Japanese Scops-Owl,
Oriental Scope-Owl, Blakiston's Fish-Owl, Hokkaido Ural Owl, Northern Boobook, Northern White-throated Needletail, Pacific Swift (Northern),
Ruddy Kingfisher, Common Kingfisher, Crested Kingfisher, Japanese Wryneck, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker,
White-backed Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker, Common Black Woodpecker, Grey-faced Woodpecker,
Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Shrike, Brandt's Jay, Japanese Spotted Nutcracker, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow,
Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Marsh Tit, Willow Tit, Asian House Martin, Long-tailed tit (A.c.japonicus), Japanese Skylark,
Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail, Japanese Bush Warbler, Sakhalin grasshopper warbler, Oriental Reed Warbler, Sakhalin Leaf Warbler,
Eastern Crowned Warbler, Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Asian Wood Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Chestnut-cheeked Starling,
White-cheeked Starling, Siberian Thrush, White's Thrush, Japanese Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Japanese Robin, Greater Kamchatkan Rubythroat,
Siberian Blue Robin, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin, Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat, Dark-sided Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher,
Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Brown Dipper, Russet Sparrow, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Japanese Accentor, Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail,
Olive-backed Pipit, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Eurasian Siskin, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Common Rosefinch, Pine Grosbeak, Red Crossbill,
Grey-bellied Bullfinch, Japanese Hawfinch, Meadow Bunting, Masked Bunting

L1-9. Southern central (Hidaka, Iburi) and Eastern south areas of Hokkaido (Ishikari, Toshima) in Summer

- Birding at the wet lands, grass fields, farm fields, forests, lakes, ponds and rivers in Southern central and eastern south areas of Hokkaido.
- More than three days trip is recommended.
- Best season: June to July
- Past trip report: 2016 June 23-24
We have chance to see
Hazel Grouse, Japanese Quail, Common Pheasant (Korean), Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Common Merganser/Goosander, Little Grebe, Grey Heron,
Northern Hobby, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Siberian Honey-buzzard, Black Kite, Eastern Marsh-Harrier, Japanese Sparrowhawk,
Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Japanese Buzzard, Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis), Brown-cheeked Rail, Ruddy-breasted Crake, Eurasian Moorhen,
Common Coot, Long-billed Plover, Western Little Ringed Plover, European Woodcock, Latham's Snipe, Grey-tailed Tattler, Common Sandpiper,
Slaty-backed Gull, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Northern Hawk-Cuckoo, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Japanese Scops-Owl,
Oriental Scope-Owl, Hokkaido Ural Owl, Northern Boobook, Northern White-throated Needletail, Pacific Swift (Northern), Ruddy Kingfisher,
Common Kingfisher, Crested Kingfisher, Japanese Wryneck, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, White-backed Woodpecker,
Great Spotted Woodpecker, Common Black Woodpecker, Grey-faced Woodpecker, Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Shrike, Brandt's Jay,
South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Marsh Tit, Willow Tit, Asian House Martin,
Long-tailed tit (A.c.japonicus), Japanese Skylark, Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail, Japanese Bush Warbler, Sakhalin grasshopper warbler,
Oriental Reed Warbler, Sakhalin Leaf Warbler, Eastern Crowned Warbler, Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Asian Wood Nuthatch,
Treecreeper, Chestnut-cheeked Starling, White-cheeked Starling, Siberian Thrush, White's Thrush, Japanese Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush,
Japanese Robin, Greater Kamchatkan Rubythroat, Siberian Blue Robin, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin, Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat, Dark-sided Flycatcher,
Asian Brown Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Brown Dipper, Russet Sparrow, Eurasian Tree Sparrow,
Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Eurasian Siskin, Common Rosefinch, Grey-bellied Bullfinch,
Japanese Hawfinch, Meadow Bunting, Masked Bunting

L1-10. Southern central (Hidaka, Iburi) and Eastern south areas of Hokkaido (Ishikari, Toshima) in Autumn

- Birding at the wet lands, grass fields, farm fields, forests, lakes, ponds and rivers in Southern central and eastern south areas of Hokkaido.
- More than four days trip is recommended.
- Best season: September to November
- Past trip report: 2017 October 20-22
We have chance to see
Hazel Grouse, Common Pheasant (Korean), Taiga Bean Goose (Middendorff's), Bean Goose, Greater White-fronted Goose (Tundra), Leser White-fronted Goose,
Snow Goose (Lesser), Cackling Goose (Aleutian), Black Brant (Pacific), Mute Swan, Whooper Swan, Tundra Swan/Tundra Swan/Bewick's Swan, Falcated Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, Mallard,
Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Garganey, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Greater Scaup (American), Pacific Harlequin Duck,
Common Merganser/Goosander, Black-throated Loon/Black-throated Diver/Arctic Loon (Green-throated), Pacific Loon/Pacific Diver, Great Crested Grebe, Black-crowned Night Heron, Grey Heron, Eurasian Great Egret,
Japanese Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Black Kite, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Japanese Buzzard,
Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis), Common Coot, Black-winged Stilt, Pacific Golden-Plover, Grey Plover, Kentish Plover, Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni), Common Snipe,
Long-billed Dowitcher, Eastern Black-tailed Godwit, Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, Eastern Eurasian Curlew, Far Eastern Curlew,
Spotted Redshank, Central Asian Common Redshank, Marsh Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, Wood Sandpiper, Grey-tailed Tattler, Terek Sandpiper,
Ruddy Turnstone, Great Knot, Red Knot (rogersi), Sandering, Red-necked Stint, Long-toed Stint, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Siberian Dunlin,
Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Eastern Broad-billed Sandpiper, Ruff, Black-tailed Gull, Kamchatka Gull, Slaty-backed Gull, Siberian Black-headed Gull,
Common Tern, Common Tern, Japanese Scops-Owl, Hokkaido Ural Owl, Northern White-throated Needletail, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker,
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, White-backed Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Common Black Woodpecker, Grey-faced Woodpecker, Brandt's Jay,
Kamchatka Magpie, Eastern Rook, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Marsh Tit, Willow Tit,
Long-tailed tit (A.c.japonicus), Brown-eared Bulbul, Kamchatka Leaf Warbler, Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus),
Asian Wood Nuthatch, Treecreeper, White-cheeked Starling, Eyebrowed Thrush, Pale Thrush, Dusky Thrush, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin,
Brown Dipper, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian), Brambling, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Eurasian Siskin, Common Rosefinch,
Grey-bellied Bullfinch, Japanese Hawfinch, Meadow Bunting, Rustic Bunting

L1-11. Southern central (Hidaka, Iburi) and Eastern south areas of Hokkaido (Ishikari, Toshima) in Winter

- Birding at the wet lands, grass fields, farm fields, forests, lakes, ponds and rivers in Southern central and eastern south areas of Hokkaido.
- More than four days trip is recommended.
- Best season: December to March
We have chance to see
Hazel Grouse, Common Pheasant (Korean), Black Brant (Pacific), Mute Swan, Whooper Swan, Tundra Swan/Tundra Swan/Bewick's Swan, Eurasian Wigeon, Mallard,
Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Eurasian Teal/Common Teal, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Greater Scaup (American),
Steller's Eider, Pacific Harlequin Duck, Stejneger's Scoter/White-winged Scoter (Siberian), Black Scoter, Long-tailed Duck, Bufflehead, Common Goldeneye,
Smew, Common Merganser/Goosander, Red-breasted Merganser, Red-throated Loon/Red-throated Diver, Black-throated Loon/Black-throated Diver/Arctic Loon (Green-throated), Pacific Loon/Pacific Diver, Yellow-billed Loon/White-billed Diver,
Great Crested Grebe, Horned Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Black-crowned Night Heron, Japanese Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant,
Common Kestrel, Merlin, Gyrfalcon, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Black Kite, White-tailed Eagle, Steller's Sea-Eagle, Hen Harrier,
Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Japanese Buzzard, Siberian Rough-legged Hawk, Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis), Common Coot,
Solitary Snipe, Black-tailed Gull, Glaucous-winged Gull, Glaucous Gull, Vega Gull, Slaty-backed Gull, Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake,
North Pacific Murre, Spectacled Guillemot, Ancient Murrelet, Japanese Scops-Owl, Hokkaido Ural Owl, Short-eared Owl,
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, White-backed Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Common Black Woodpecker,
Grey-faced Woodpecker, Long-tailed Shrike (Taiwan), Brandt's Jay, Kamchatka Magpie, Eastern Rook, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow,
Bohemian Waxwing, Japanese Waxwing, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Marsh Tit, Willow Tit, Long-tailed tit (A.c.japonicus),
Brown-eared Bulbul, Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Asian Wood Nuthatch, Treecreeper, White-cheeked Starling,
Dusky Thrush, Brown Dipper, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Western Siberian Accentor, Japanese Wagtail, Brambling, Grey-capped Greenfinch,
Eurasian Siskin, Common Redpoll, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Common Rosefinch, Pallas' Rosefinch, Pine Grosbeak, Red Crossbill,
Grey-bellied Bullfinch, Eurasian Bullfinch, Japanese Hawfinch, Meadow Bunting, Yellow-headed Bunting, Lapland Longspur



Longer Tours in Tohoku Region

L2-1. Tobishima Island (Yamagata)

- Bird-watching at the remote island at the north of Japan Sea.
- More than three days trip is recommended. * There is a risk that the boat will be cancelled due to bad weather conditions, so we must secure the schedule considering such risk.
- Best season: May, October to November
- Past trip report: 2018 May 12-15, 2016 October 22-24
Here we have chance to see
Japanese Quail, Mandarin Duck, Gadwall, Falcated Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler,
Northern Pintail, Eurasian Teal/Common Teal, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Greater Scaup (American), Red-throated Loon/Red-throated Diver, Black-throated Loon/Black-throated Diver/Arctic Loon (Green-throated), Pacific Loon/Pacific Diver,
Streaked Shearwater, Flesh-footed Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Short-tailed Shearwater, Little Grebe, Holboll's Grebe,
Great Crested Grebe, Japanese Night-Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Chinese Pond-Heron, Eastern Cattle Egret, Grey Heron,
Eastern Purple Heron, Eurasian Great Egret, Eastern Great Egret, Intermediate Egret, Little Egret, Chinese Egret, Great Cormorant,
Japanese Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant, Common Kestrel, Amur Falcon, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Siberian Honey-buzzard,
Black Kite, Pied Harrier, Chinese Sparrowhawk, Japanese Sparrowhawk, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Grey-faced Buzzard,
Japanese Buzzard, Brown-cheeked Rail, Ruddy-breasted Crake, Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot, Pacific Golden-Plover, Grey Plover,
Long-billed Plover, Western Little Ringed Plover, Kentish Plover, Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni), European Woodcock, Jack Snipe, Solitary Snipe,
Latham's Snipe, Pin-tailed Snipe, Swinhoe's Snipe, Common Snipe, Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit, Little Curlew, Whimbrel, Far Eastern Curlew,
Spotted Redshank, Marsh Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Grey-tailed Tattler, Wandering Tattler,
Common Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone, Black Turnstone, Red-necked Stint, Temminck's Stint, Long-toed Stint, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper,
Siberian Dunlin, Red-necked Phalarope, Red Phalarope, Oriental Pratincole, Black-tailed Gull, Kamchatka Gull, Glaucous-winged Gull, ,br. Glaucous Gull, Vega Gull, Slaty-backed Gull, Siberian Gull, Siberian Black-headed Gull, Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake,
Common Tern, Aleutian Tern, South Polar Skua, Pomarine Jaeger/Pomarine Skua, Parasitic Jaeger, Eastern Long-tailed Jaeger, Franz Joseph Dovekie,
Thick-billed Murre/Brunnich's Guillemot/Thick-billed Murre (arra), North Pacific Murre, Pigeon Guillemot, Spectacled Guillemot, Ancient Murrelet, Japanese Murrelet, Parakeet Auklet,
Least Auklet, Crested Auklet, Stock Pigeon, Japanese Wood-Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon,
Chestnut-winged Cuckoo, Large Hawk-Cuckoo, Northern Hawk-Cuckoo, Indian Cuckoo, Eastern Common Cuckoo, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Lessor Cuckoo,
Asian Koel, Japanese Scops-Owl, Oriental Scope-Owl, Eagle Owl, Ural Owl, Northern Boobook, Short-eared Owl, Grey Nightjar,
Himalayan Swiftlet, Northern White-throated Needletail, Eastern Common Swift, Pacific Swift (kanoi), House Swift, Oriental Dollarbird/Dollarbird,
Black-capped Kingfisher, Common Kingfisher, Eurasian Hoopoe, Japanese Wryneck, Rufous-bellied Woodpecker (subrufinus), Lesser Spotted Woodpecker,
Great Spotted Woodpecker (D.m.hondoensis), Great Spotted Woodpecker (D.m.brevirostris), Japanese Woodpecker, Fairy pitta,
White-breasted Woodswallow, Ashy Minivet, Tiger Shrike, Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Shrike, Brown Shrike, Brown Shrike,
Western Red-backed Shrike, Isabelline Shrike, Long-tailed Shrike (Taiwan), Long-tailed Shrike (Taiwan), Black-naped Oriole, King drongo, Ashy Drongo,
Black Paradise-Flycatcher, Japanese Jay, Daurian Jackdaw, Eastern Rook, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow,
Bohemian Waxwing, Japanese Waxwing, Japanese Tit, Yellow-bellied Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Willow Tit, Kamchatka Sand Martin, Barn Swallow (gutturalis),
Barn Swallow, Pacific Swallow, Eastern House Martin, Asian House Martin, Red-rumped Swallow, Long-tailed Tit, Mongolian Lark,
Mongolian Short-toed Lark/Syke's Short-toed Lark, Asian Short-toed Lark, Japanese Skylark, Large Japanese Sky-Lark, Japanese Skylark (A.j.lonnbergi),
Pallid Horned Lark, Asian Stubtail, Japanese Bush Warbler, Korean Bush-Warbler, Lanceolated Warbler, Pallas's Grasshopper-Warbler,
Middendorff's Warbler, Sakhalin grasshopper warbler, Oriental Reed Warbler, Black-browed Reed Warbler, Paddyfield Warbler, Booted Warbler,
Siberian Willow Warbler, Siberian Chiffchaff, Wood Warbler, Common Dusky Warbler, Tickell's Leaf-Warbler, Radde's Warbler,
Pallas's Leaf Warbler, Yellow-browed Warbler, Arctic Warbler, Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler, Kamchatka Leaf Warbler,
Pale-legged Leaf Warbler, Sakhalin Leaf Warbler, Two-barred Greenish Warbler, Eastern Crowned Warbler, Sulphur-breasted Warbler,
Greater Whitethroat, Chestnut-flanked White-eye, Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest, Chinese Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Daurian Starling,
Chestnut-cheeked Starling, Red-billed Starling, White-cheeked Starling, Siberian Common Starling, Siberian Thrush,
Western Siberian Thrush, White's thrush, Western Grey-cheeked Thrush, Grey-backed Thrush, Japanese Thrush, Chinese Blackbird,
Eyebrowed Thrush, Pale Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Black-throated Thrush, Red-throated Thrush, Naumann's Thrush,
Dusky Thrush, Fieldfare, Redwing, White-Browed Shortwing, Red-spotted Bluethroat, West Siberian European Robin, Japanese Robin,
Greater Kamchatkan Rubythroat, Siberian Blue Robin, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin, Rufous-tailed Robin, Daurian Redstart,
South-eastern Black Redstart, Common Redstart, Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat, Grey Bushchat, Isabelline Wheatear, Northern Wheatear,
Pied Wheatear, Desert Wheatear, Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush, Red-bellied Rock Thrush, White-throated Rock Thrush, Spotted Flycatcher,
Grey-streaked Flycatcher, Dark-sided Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Yellow-rumped Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher,
Chinese Flycatcher, Mugimaki Flycatcher, Taiga Flycatcher, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher,
Zappey's Flycatcher, House Sparrow, Russet Sparrow, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Alpine Accentor, Western Siberian Accentor, Japanese Accentor,
Forest Wagtail, Green-headed Wagtail, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Manchurian Yellow Wagtail, Eastern Yellow Wagtail,
Northern Citrine Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Amur Wagtail, East Siberian Wagtail, Baikal Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail,
Richard's Pipit, Blyth's Pipit, Tree Pipit, Olive-backed Pipit, Northern Olive-backed Pipit, Pechora Pipit (Manzbier's), Red-throated Pipit,
Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian), Common Chaffinch, Brambling, Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.minor), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba), Eurasian Siskin,
Common Redpoll, Coues' Redpoll, Eurasian Goldfinch, Asian Rosy-Finch (brunneonucha), Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Common Rosefinch,
Hodgson's Rosefinch, Common Rosefinch, Pallas' Rosefinch, Pine Grosbeak, Kamchatka Pine Grosbeak, Red Crossbill,
Eurasian White-winged Crossbill, Grey-bellied Bullfinch, Eurasian Bullfinch, Cassin's Bullfinch, Japanese Hawfinch, Western Hawfinch,
Chinese Grosbeak/Yellow-billed Grosbeak, Japanese Grosbeak, Pileolated Warbler, Eastern Yellowhammer, Western Pine Bunting,
Meadow Bunting (E.c. ciopsis), Meadow Bunting (E.c.castaneiceps), Grey-necked Bunting, Ortolan Bunting, Tristram's Bunting,
Chestnut-eared Bunting, Little Bunting, Yellow-browed Bunting, Rustic Bunting, Yellow-headed Bunting), Yellow-breasted Bunting,
Chestnut Bunting, Black-headed Bunting, Red-headed Bunting, Yellow Bunting, Masked Bunting, Western Black-faced Bunting, Grey Bunting,
Western Pallas's Bunting, Pallas's Reed Bunting, Japanese Reed Bunting, Reed Bunting, Lapland Longspur, Siberian Snow Bunting
Pribilof Snow Bunting, Aleutian Song Sparrow, Gambel's Sparrow

L2-2. Shirakami Area (Aomori)

- Bird watching in the old-growth beech nature forests.
- Two or three days trip is recommended.
- Best season: May to June
Here we have chance to see
Copper Pheasant (Scintillating), Pacific Harlequin Duck, Siberian Honey-buzzard, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk,
Japanese Golden Eagle, Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis), White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Northern Hawk-Cuckoo, Oriental Scope-Owl,
Ural Owl, Grey Nightjar, Oriental Dollarbird/Dollarbird, Ruddy Kingfisher, Crested Kingfisher, White-backed Woodpecker,
Common Black Woodpecker, Ashy Minivet, Black Paradise-Flycatcher, Japanese Spotted Nutcracker, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus),
Eurasian Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Siberian Thrush, Japanese Thrush, Japanese Robin, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin,
Japanese Accentor, Grey Bunting

L2-3. Lake Izu-Numa & Kabukuri-Numa Marsh (Miyagi)

- Geese watching at lakes, marshes and paddy fields.
- Two days trip is recommended.
- Best season: November to February
- Past trip report: 2014 December 14-15
Here we have chance to see
Green Pheasant (kigis), Swan Goose, Taiga Bean Goose (Middendorff's), Bean Goose, Greylag Goose (Siberian), Greater White-fronted Goose (Tundra),
Leser White-fronted Goose, Bar-headed Goose, Snow Goose (Lesser), Cackling Goose (Aleutian), Cackling Goose (minima), Black Brant, Whooper Swan,
Tundra Swan/Tundra Swan/Bewick's Swan, Tundra Swan/Bewick's Swan/Whistling Swan, Mandarin Duck, Falcated Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, American Wigeon, Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck,
Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Baikal Teal, Eurasian Teal/Common Teal, Green-winged Teal, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Smew, Common Merganser/Goosander,
Little Grebe, Holboll's Grebe, Horned Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Eurasian Spoonbill, Black-faced Spoonbill,
Black-crowned Night Heron, Grey Heron, Eurasian Great Egret, Eastern Great Egret, Little Egret, Great Cormorant,
Common Kestrel, Merlin, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Peale's Falcon, Osprey, Black Kite, White-tailed Eagle,
Eastern Marsh-Harrier, Hen Harrier, Japanese Sparrowhawk, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Japanese Buzzard,
Siberian Rough-legged Hawk, Common Coot, Northern Lapwing, Long-billed Plover, Solitary Snipe, Common Snipe, Long-billed Dowitcher,
Spotted Redshank, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Red-necked Stint, Little Stint, Temminck's Stint, Siberian Dunlin,
Black-tailed Gull, Kamchatka Gull, Vega Gull, Slaty-backed Gull, Siberian Gull, Siberian Black-headed Gull, Saunder's Gull,
Rock Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Ural Owl, Northern Long-eared Owl, Short-eared Owl,
Common Kingfisher, Crested Kingfisher, Japanese Wryneck, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, White-backed Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker,
Japanese Woodpecker, Bull-headed Shrike, Long-tailed Shrike (Taiwan), Japanese Jay, Eastern Rook, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow,
Bohemian Waxwing, Japanese Waxwing, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Zitting Cisticola, Brown-eared Bulbul,
Japanese Bush Warbler, Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), White-cheeked Starling, White's Thrush, Pale Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush,
Brown-headed Thrush, Dusky Thrush, Daurian Redstart, Taiga Flycatcher, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Brown Dipper, Russet Sparrow,
Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Central Asian Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit, Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian),
Brambling, Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.minor), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba), Eurasian Siskin, Common Redpoll, Long-tailed Rosefinch,
Grey-bellied Bullfinch, Eurasian Bullfinch, Japanese Hawfinch, Japanese Grosbeak, Meadow Bunting, Rustic Bunting, Yellow-headed Bunting,
Masked Bunting, Grey Bunting

L2-4. Urabandai (Fukushima)

- Bird watching in the forests and lakes in the highland.
- Two or three days trip is recommended. - Best season: December to July
- Past trip report: 2017 October 19-20
Here we have chance to see
Copper Pheasant (Scintillating), Green Pheasant (kigis), Greater White-fronted Goose (Tundra) (winter), Tundra Swan/Tundra Swan/Bewick's Swan (winter),
Mandarin Duck (summer), Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Smew (winter), Little Grebe, Grey Heron, Osprey, Siberian Honey-buzzard (summer),
Black Kite, Grey-faced Buzzard (summer), Western Little Ringed Plover (summer), Latham's Snipe (summer), Eastern Common Cuckoo (summer),
Lessor Cuckoo (summer), Ural Owl, Northern Long-eared Owl (summer), Pacific Swift (kanoi) (migrant), Oriental Dollarbird/Dollarbird (summer), Common Kingfisher, White-backed Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Japanese Woodpecker,
Tiger Shrike (summer), Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Jay, Japanese Spotted Nutcracker, Bohemian Waxwing (migrant, winter),
Japanese Waxwing (migrant, winter), Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Willow Tit, Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer),
Asian House Martin (summer), Long-tailed Tit, Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler, Oriental Reed Warbler (summer),
Honshu White-eye, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Eurasian Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Chestnut-cheeked Starling (summer), White-cheeked Starling,
Siberian Thrush (summer), Japanese Thrush (summer), Pale Thrush (winter), Brown-headed Thrush (summer), Naumann's Thrush (migrant, winter),
Dusky Thrush (winter), Siberian Blue Robin (summer), Daurian Redstart (winter), Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (migrant),
Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant), Dark-sided Flycatcher (migrant), Asian Brown Flycatcher (migrant, summer), Narcissus Flycatcher (summer),
Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (summer), Brown Dipper, Russet Sparrow (summer), Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Grey Wagtail (summer),
Olive-backed Pipit (summer), Brambling (winter), Eurasian Siskin (winter), Common Redpoll (winter), Asian Rosy-Finch (brunneonucha) (winter),
Long-tailed Rosefinch (winter), Pallas' Rosefinch (winter), Red Crossbill (migrant, winter), Grey-bellied Bullfinch (winter),
Eurasian Bullfinch (winter), Japanese Hawfinch (winter), Japanese Grosbeak (summer), Meadow Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting (summer),
Rustic Bunting (winter), Yellow Bunting (summer), Masked Bunting (summer), Grey Bunting (migrant, summer)



Longer Tours in Kanto, Koshin-etsu Region

L3-1. Nikko & Oku-Nikko (Tochigi)

- High-land bird-watching in the north part of national park Nikko with high-moor and lakes.
- Two or three days trip is recommended.
- Best season: April to June, November
- Past trip report: 2018 April 23, 2016 July 10-11, 2017 November 19-20
Here we have chance to see
Little Grebe, Great Cormorant, Himalayan Large Merganser (winter), Grey Heron, Mandarin Duck, Mallard, Tufted Duck (winter), Pochard (winter),
Smew (winter), Black Kite, Japanese Buzzard, Common Kestrel, Steller's Sea-Eagle (winter), White-tailed Eagle (winter),
Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter), Common Coot, Latham's Snipe (summer), Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove,
Eastern Common Cuckoo (summer), Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo (summer), Lessor Cuckoo (summer), Ural Owl, Grey Nightjar (summer),
Pacific Swift (kanoi) (summer), House Swift (summer), Common Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker,
White-backed Woodpecker, Japanese Woodpecker, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Asian House Martin (summer), Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer),
Grey Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Indian Tree Pipit (summer), Ashy Minivet (summer),
Bull-headed Shrike, Great Grey Shrike (winter), Japanese Waxwing (winter), Bohemian Waxwing (winter), Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Japanese Accentor,
Siberian Blue Robin (summer), Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (summer), Daurian Redstart (winter), Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin (summer),
Japanese Bush Warbler, Sakhalin Leaf-Warbler (summer), Japanese Leaf Warbler (summer), Oriental Reed-Warbler (summer),
Eastern Crowned-Warbler (summer), Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (summer), Goldcrest, Narcissus Flycatcher (summer),
Japanese Thrush (summer), Asian Brown Flycatcher (summer), Brown-headed Thrush (summer), White's thrush (summer), Pale Thrush (winter),
Siberian Thrush (summer), Eye-browed Thrush (migrant), Dusky Thrush (winter), Brown-eared Bulbul, Zitting Cisticola (summer),
Asian Stubtail (summer), Long-tailed Tit, Willow Tit, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Ti, Eurasian Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Honshu White-eye,
Black-faced Bunting, Siberian Meadow Bunting, Grey Bunting (summer), Chestnut-eared Bunting (summer), Rustic Bunting (winter),
Yellow-headed Bunting (winter), Eurasian Bullfinch (winter), Brambling (winter), Grey-bellied Bullfinch (winter),
Grey-capped Greenfinch, Grey-capped Greenfinch (winter), Long-tailed Rosefinch (winter), Pallas' Rosefinch (winter),
Asian Rosy-Finch (brunneonucha) (winter), Japanese Hawfinch (winter), Eurasian Siskin (winter), Common Redpoll (winter), Eurasian Tree Sparrow,
Chestnut-cheeked Starling (summer), Japanese Grosbeak, Japanese Jay, Japanese Jungle Crow, South Asian Carrion Crow

L3-2. Mt. Fuji (Shizuoka, Yamanashi)

- High-land birdwatching at the half altitude level and surrounding forest of Mt. Fuji.
- Two days trip is recommended in summer season.
- Best season: June to September
- Past trip report: 2017 July 31 - August 01
Here we have chance to see
Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe (winter), Black-necked Grebe (winter), Great Cormorant , Grey Heron , Eastern Cattle Egret (summer),
Little Egret (summer), Intermediate Egret (summer), Eastern Great Egret (spring/summer/autumn), Eurasian Great Egret (winter),
Black-crowned Night Heron, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Mandarin Duck (winter), Gadwall (winter), Falcated Teal (winter),
Northern Pintail (winter), Common Teal (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter), Mallard (winter), Tufted Duck (winter), Pochard (winter),
Common Merganser/Goosander (winter), Smew (winter), Black Kite, Japanese Buzzard, Goshawk, Common Kestrel, Japanese Sparrowhawk,
Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Grey-faced Buzzard (summer), Siberian Honey-buzzard (summer), Eastern Peregrine Falcon (winter),
Green Pheasant (kigis), Scintillating Cooper Pheasant, Common Coot, Common Sandpiper, Latham's Snipe (summer), Common Snipe (winter),
European Woodcock, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Eastern Common Cuckoo (summer),
Hodgson's Hawk-Cuckoo (summer), Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo (summer), Lessor Cuckoo (summer), Ural Owl, Northern Boobook(summer),
Oriental Scope-Owl (summer), Grey Nightjar (summer), Pacific Swift (kanoi) (summer), Common Kingfisher, Crested Kingfisher,
Japanese Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, White-backed Woodpecker, Pygmy Woodpecker, Japanese Skylark,
Asian House Martin (summer), Red-rumped Swallow (migrant), Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Grey Wagtail,
Japanese Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Indian Tree Pipit, Ashy Minivet (summer), Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Shrike (summer),
Japanese Waxwing (winter), Brown Dipper, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Alpine Accentor, Japanese Accentor, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin,
Japanese Robin (summer), Siberian Blue Robin (summer), Daurian Redstart (winter), Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (summer), Brown-headed Thrush,
White's Thrush (summer), Japanese Thrush (summer), Siberian Thrush (summer), Eye-browed Thrush (migrant), Brown-headed Thrush (winter),
Dusky Thrush (winter), Pale Thrush (winter), Red-bellied Rockthrush, Japanese Bush Warbler, Eastern Crowned-Warbler (summer),
Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant), Sakhalin Leaf-Warbler (migrant), Japanese Leaf Warbler (summer), Oriental Reed-Warbler (summer),
Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (summer), Narcissus Flycatcher (summer), Asian Brown Flycatcher (summer), Dark-sided Flycatcher (summer),
Black Paradise-Flycatcher (summer), Goldcrest, Black-browed Reed-Warbler (summer), Zitting Cisticola (summer),
Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail (summer), Long-tailed Tit, Willow Tit, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit,
Eurasian Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Honshu White-eye, Black-faced Bunting, Siberian Meadow Bunting, Grey Bunting,
Chestnut-eared Bunting (spring/summer/autumn), Yellow Bunting (summer), Rustic Bunting (winter), Yellow-headed Bunting (winter),
Reed Bunting (winter), Grey-bellied Bullfinch, Eurasian Bullfinch (winter), Brambling (winter), Red Crossbill, Grey-capped Greenfinch,
Pallas' Rosefinch (winter), Japanese Hawfinch (winter), Asian Rosy-Finch (brunneonucha) (winter), Eurasian Siskin (winter), Long-tailed Rosefinch (winter),
Eurasian Tree Sparrow, White-cheeked Starling, Chestnut-cheeked Starling (summer), Japanese Grosbeak, Japanese Spotted Nutcracker,
Azure-winged Magpie, Japanese Jay, Japanese Jungle Crow, South Asian Carrion Crow

L3-3. Togakushi Highland (Nagano)

- Bird-watching at Togakushi highland located in the north of Nagano within Joshinetsu National Park. The forest in Togakushi, Togakushi Forest Botanical Garden, is a good bird-watching spot.
- One or two days trip is recommended.
- Best season: May to October
- Past trip report: 2017 May 14, 2017 October 26
Here we have chance to see
Little Grebe, Grey Heron, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Goshawk, Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis), Japanese Sparrowhawk,
Black Kite, Japanese Golden Eagle, Japanese Buzzard, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Common Kestrel,
Common Coot, Latham's Snipe, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Eastern Common Cuckoo, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Lessor Cuckoo,
Long-eared Owl, Ural Owl, Pacific Swift (kanoi), House Swift, Ruddy Kingfisher,
Japanese Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, White-backed Woodpecker, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker,
Asian House Martin, Barn Swallow (gutturalis), Grey Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail,
Indian tree pipit, Ashy Minivet, Bull-headed Shrike, Brown Dipper, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Siberian Blue Robin, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin,
Brown-headed Thrush, Japanese Bush Warbler, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Goldcrest, Narcissus Flycatcher, Japanese Thrush,
Asian Brown Flycatcher, Eastern Crowned-Warbler, White's Thrush, Brown-eared Bulbul, Siberian Thrush, Japanese Leaf Warbler,
Asian Stubtail, Long-tailed Tit, Willow Tit, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Eurasian Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Honshu White-eye,
Black-faced Bunting, Grey Bunting, Yellow Bunting, Siberian Meadow Bunting, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Russet Sparrow,
Chestnut-cheeked Starling, White-cheeked Starling, Japanese Grosbeak, Japanese Jay, Japanese Jungle Crow, South Asian Carrion Crow,

L3-4. Shirakaba-pass (Nagano)

- Watching of migrant Hawks which gather and fly over this pass. Shirakaba-pass is located at the south part of the North Japan Alps, east of Mt. Norikura.
- More than Two days trip is recommended.
- Best season: September to October
- Past trip report: 2017 September 19
Here we have chance to see
Goshawk, Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis), Grey-faced Buzzard, Japanese Sparrowhawk, Japanese Golden Eagle, Japanese Buzzard,
Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Siberian Honey-buzzard, Osprey, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Pacific Swift (kanoi),
Northern White-throated Needletail, House Swift, Japanese Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker,
Asian House Martin, Barn Swallow (gutturalis), Indian tree pipit, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin, Asian Brown Flycatcher,
Long-tailed Tit, Willow Tit, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Eurasian Nuthatch, Honshu White-eye, Japanese Spotted Nutcracker,

L3-5. Awashima Island (Niigata)

- Bird-watching at the remote island in Japan Sea.
- More than three days trip is recommended. * There is a risk that the boat will be cancelled due to bad weather conditions, so we must secure the schedule considering such risk.
- Best season: May, October to November
- Past trip report: 2018 May 06-08
Here we have chance to see
Japanese Quail, Mandarin Duck, Gadwall, Falcated Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler,
Northern Pintail, Eurasian Teal/Common Teal, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Greater Scaup (American), Red-throated Loon/Red-throated Diver, Black-throated Loon/Black-throated Diver/Arctic Loon (Green-throated), Pacific Loon/Pacific Diver,
Streaked Shearwater, Flesh-footed Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Short-tailed Shearwater, Little Grebe, Holboll's Grebe,
Great Crested Grebe, Japanese Night-Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Chinese Pond-Heron, Eastern Cattle Egret, Grey Heron,
Eastern Purple Heron, Eurasian Great Egret, Eastern Great Egret, Intermediate Egret, Little Egret, Chinese Egret, Great Cormorant,
Japanese Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant, Common Kestrel, Amur Falcon, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Siberian Honey-buzzard,
Black Kite, Pied Harrier, Chinese Sparrowhawk, Japanese Sparrowhawk, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Grey-faced Buzzard,
Japanese Buzzard, Brown-cheeked Rail, Ruddy-breasted Crake, Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot, Pacific Golden-Plover, Grey Plover,
Long-billed Plover, Western Little Ringed Plover, Kentish Plover, Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni), European Woodcock, Jack Snipe, Solitary Snipe,
Latham's Snipe, Pin-tailed Snipe, Swinhoe's Snipe, Common Snipe, Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit, Little Curlew, Whimbrel, Far Eastern Curlew,
Spotted Redshank, Marsh Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Grey-tailed Tattler, Wandering Tattler,
Common Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone, Black Turnstone, Red-necked Stint, Temminck's Stint, Long-toed Stint, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper,
Siberian Dunlin, Red-necked Phalarope, Red Phalarope, Oriental Pratincole, Black-tailed Gull, Kamchatka Gull, Glaucous-winged Gull, ,br. Glaucous Gull, Vega Gull, Slaty-backed Gull, Siberian Gull, Siberian Black-headed Gull, Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake,
Common Tern, Aleutian Tern, South Polar Skua, Pomarine Jaeger/Pomarine Skua, Parasitic Jaeger, Eastern Long-tailed Jaeger, Franz Joseph Dovekie,
Thick-billed Murre/Brunnich's Guillemot/Thick-billed Murre (arra), North Pacific Murre, Pigeon Guillemot, Spectacled Guillemot, Ancient Murrelet, Japanese Murrelet, Parakeet Auklet,
Least Auklet, Crested Auklet, Stock Pigeon, Japanese Wood-Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon,
Chestnut-winged Cuckoo, Large Hawk-Cuckoo, Northern Hawk-Cuckoo, Indian Cuckoo, Eastern Common Cuckoo, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Lessor Cuckoo,
Asian Koel, Japanese Scops-Owl, Oriental Scope-Owl, Eagle Owl, Ural Owl, Northern Boobook, Short-eared Owl, Grey Nightjar,
Himalayan Swiftlet, Northern White-throated Needletail, Eastern Common Swift, Pacific Swift (kanoi), House Swift, Oriental Dollarbird/Dollarbird,
Black-capped Kingfisher, Common Kingfisher, Eurasian Hoopoe, Japanese Wryneck, Rufous-bellied Woodpecker (subrufinus), Lesser Spotted Woodpecker,
Great Spotted Woodpecker (D.m.hondoensis), Great Spotted Woodpecker (D.m.brevirostris), Japanese Woodpecker, Fairy pitta,
White-breasted Woodswallow, Ashy Minivet, Tiger Shrike, Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Shrike, Brown Shrike, Brown Shrike,
Western Red-backed Shrike, Isabelline Shrike, Long-tailed Shrike (Taiwan), Long-tailed Shrike (Taiwan), Black-naped Oriole, King drongo, Ashy Drongo,
Black Paradise-Flycatcher, Japanese Jay, Daurian Jackdaw, Eastern Rook, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow,
Bohemian Waxwing, Japanese Waxwing, Japanese Tit, Yellow-bellied Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Willow Tit, Kamchatka Sand Martin, Barn Swallow (gutturalis),
Barn Swallow, Pacific Swallow, Eastern House Martin, Asian House Martin, Red-rumped Swallow, Long-tailed Tit, Mongolian Lark,
Mongolian Short-toed Lark/Syke's Short-toed Lark, Asian Short-toed Lark, Japanese Skylark, Large Japanese Sky-Lark, Japanese Skylark (A.j.lonnbergi),
Pallid Horned Lark, Asian Stubtail, Japanese Bush Warbler, Korean Bush-Warbler, Lanceolated Warbler, Pallas's Grasshopper-Warbler,
Middendorff's Warbler, Sakhalin grasshopper warbler, Oriental Reed Warbler, Black-browed Reed Warbler, Paddyfield Warbler, Booted Warbler,
Siberian Willow Warbler, Siberian Chiffchaff, Wood Warbler, Common Dusky Warbler, Tickell's Leaf-Warbler, Radde's Warbler,
Pallas's Leaf Warbler, Yellow-browed Warbler, Arctic Warbler, Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler, Kamchatka Leaf Warbler,
Pale-legged Leaf Warbler, Sakhalin Leaf Warbler, Two-barred Greenish Warbler, Eastern Crowned Warbler, Sulphur-breasted Warbler,
Greater Whitethroat, Chestnut-flanked White-eye, Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest, Chinese Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Daurian Starling,
Chestnut-cheeked Starling, Red-billed Starling, White-cheeked Starling, Siberian Common Starling, Siberian Thrush,
Western Siberian Thrush, White's thrush, Western Grey-cheeked Thrush, Grey-backed Thrush, Japanese Thrush, Chinese Blackbird,
Eyebrowed Thrush, Pale Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Black-throated Thrush, Red-throated Thrush, Naumann's Thrush,
Dusky Thrush, Fieldfare, Redwing, White-Browed Shortwing, Red-spotted Bluethroat, West Siberian European Robin, Japanese Robin,
Greater Kamchatkan Rubythroat, Siberian Blue Robin, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin, Rufous-tailed Robin, Daurian Redstart,
South-eastern Black Redstart, Common Redstart, Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat, Grey Bushchat, Isabelline Wheatear, Northern Wheatear,
Pied Wheatear, Desert Wheatear, Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush, Red-bellied Rock Thrush, White-throated Rock Thrush, Spotted Flycatcher,
Grey-streaked Flycatcher, Dark-sided Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Yellow-rumped Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher,
Chinese Flycatcher, Mugimaki Flycatcher, Taiga Flycatcher, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher,
Zappey's Flycatcher, House Sparrow, Russet Sparrow, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Alpine Accentor, Western Siberian Accentor, Japanese Accentor,
Forest Wagtail, Green-headed Wagtail, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Manchurian Yellow Wagtail, Eastern Yellow Wagtail,
Northern Citrine Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Amur Wagtail, East Siberian Wagtail, Baikal Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail,
Richard's Pipit, Blyth's Pipit, Tree Pipit, Olive-backed Pipit, Northern Olive-backed Pipit, Pechora Pipit (Manzbier's), Red-throated Pipit,
Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian), Common Chaffinch, Brambling, Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.minor), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba), Eurasian Siskin,
Common Redpoll, Coues' Redpoll, Eurasian Goldfinch, Asian Rosy-Finch (brunneonucha), Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Common Rosefinch,
Hodgson's Rosefinch, Common Rosefinch, Pallas' Rosefinch, Pine Grosbeak, Kamchatka Pine Grosbeak, Red Crossbill,
Eurasian White-winged Crossbill, Grey-bellied Bullfinch, Eurasian Bullfinch, Cassin's Bullfinch, Japanese Hawfinch, Western Hawfinch,
Chinese Grosbeak/Yellow-billed Grosbeak, Japanese Grosbeak, Pileolated Warbler, Eastern Yellowhammer, Western Pine Bunting,
Meadow Bunting (E.c. ciopsis), Meadow Bunting (E.c.castaneiceps), Grey-necked Bunting, Ortolan Bunting, Tristram's Bunting,
Chestnut-eared Bunting, Little Bunting, Yellow-browed Bunting, Rustic Bunting, Yellow-headed Bunting), Yellow-breasted Bunting,
Chestnut Bunting, Black-headed Bunting, Red-headed Bunting, Yellow Bunting, Masked Bunting, Western Black-faced Bunting, Grey Bunting,
Western Pallas's Bunting, Pallas's Reed Bunting, Japanese Reed Bunting, Reed Bunting, Lapland Longspur, Siberian Snow Bunting
Pribilof Snow Bunting, Aleutian Song Sparrow, Gambel's Sparrow

L3-6. Okutainai (Niigata)

- Bird-watching in the untapped forests along Tainai River.
- More than two days trip is recommended.
- Best season: May to June
Here we have chance to see
Mandarin Duck, Siberian Honey-buzzard, Black Kite, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Grey-faced Buzzard, Japanese Buzzard,
Japanese Golden Eagle, Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis), Northern Hawk-Cuckoo, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Lessor Cuckoo, Oriental Scope-Owl,
Ural Owl, Northern Boobook, Oriental Dollarbird/Dollarbird, Ruddy Kingfisher, Crested Kingfisher, White-backed Woodpecker, Japanese Tit,
Varied Tit, Asian Stubtail, Japanese Bush Warbler, Eastern Crowned Warbler, Eurasian Nuthatch, White's Thrush, Narcissus Flycatcher,
Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Brown Dipper, Grey Wagtail

L3-7. Matsunoyama (Niigata)

- Bird-watching in the natural forests around the spa resort among mountains.
- More than two days trip is recommended.
- Best season: May to June
- Past trip report: 2018 May 30-31
Here we have chance to see
Chinese Bamboo-Partridge, Copper Pheasant (Scintillating), Green Pheasant (kigis), Mandarin Duck, Eastern Spot-billed Duck,
Little Grebe, Japanese Night-Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Grey Heron, Eastern Great Egret, Intermediate Egret, Little Egret,
Great Cormorant, Common Kestrel, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Siberian Honey-buzzard, Black Kite, Japanese Sparrowhawk,
Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Grey-faced Buzzard, Japanese Buzzard, Japanese Golden Eagle, Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis),
Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot, Long-billed Plover, Western Little Ringed Plover, Common Greater Painted-snipe, European Woodcock,
Common Sandpiper, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Northern Hawk-Cuckoo, Eastern Common Cuckoo,
Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Lessor Cuckoo, Oriental Scope-Owl, Ural Owl, Northern Boobook, Northern Long-eared Owl, Grey Nightjar,
Pacific Swift (kanoi), Oriental Dollarbird/Dollarbird, Ruddy Kingfisher, Common Kingfisher, Crested Kingfisher,
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, White-backed Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Japanese Woodpecker, Ashy Minivet,
Tiger Shrike, Bull-headed Shrike, Black Paradise-Flycatcher, Japanese Jay, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow,
Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Barn Swallow (gutturalis), Asian House Martin, Long-tailed Tit, Japanese Skylark,
Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail, Japanese Bush Warbler, Oriental Reed Warbler, Sakhalin Leaf Warbler,
Eastern Crowned Warbler, Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Eurasian Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Chestnut-cheeked Starling,
White-cheeked Starling, Siberian Thrush, White's Thrush, Japanese Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Dark-sided Flycatcher,
Asian Brown Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Brown Dipper, Russet Sparrow, Eurasian Tree Sparrow,
Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Meadow Bunting, Yellow Bunting, Masked Bunting,
Grey Bunting

L3-8. Lake Suwa (Nagano)

- Watching wintering birds around Lake Suwa and the forest nearby.
- Two days trip is recommended.
- Best season: December to February
- Past trip report: 2017 December 20
Here we have chance to see
Eurasian Wigeon, Mallard, Northern Pintail, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Common Goldeneye, Common Merganser/Goosander, Little Grebe,
Black-necked Grebe, Eastern Great Egret, Steller's Sea-Eagle, White-tailed Eagle, Common Kestrel, Black Kite,
Common Coot, Siberian Black-headed Gull, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker,
Great Spotted Woodpecker, Azure-winged Magpie, Japanese Jay, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit,
Long-tailed Tit, Brown-eared Bulbul, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Eurasian Nuthatch, Dusky Thrush, Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail,
Eurasian Siskin, Pallas' Rosefinch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Japanese Waxwing, Bohemian Waxwing, Brambling, Red Crossbill,
Eurasian Bullfinch, Japanese Hawfinch, Japanese Grosbeak, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Yellow-headed Bunting, Rustic Bunting, Siberian Meadow Bunting

L3-9. North Area of Mt. Yatsugatake, Kirigamine Highland , Yashimahara Wetlands (Nagano)

- Bird-watching in the forests, grasslands and wetlands in the highlands.
- More than two days trip is recommended.
- Best season: June to August
- Past trip report: 2017 July 16
Here we have chance to see
Copper Pheasant (Scintillating), Green Pheasant (kigis), Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Grey Heron, Intermediate Egret, Great Cormorant,
Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Siberian Honey-buzzard, Black Kite, Goshawk, Grey-faced Buzzard, Japanese Buzzard, Latham's Snipe,
Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Northern Hawk-Cuckoo, Eastern Common Cuckoo, Lessor Cuckoo, Ural Owl, Grey Nightjar,
Pacific Swift (kanoi), Common Kingfisher, Crested Kingfisher, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, White-backed Woodpecker,
Great Spotted Woodpecker, Japanese Woodpecker, Ashy Minivet, Tiger Shrike, Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Jay, Japanese Spotted Nutcracker,
South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Willow Tit, Barn Swallow (gutturalis), Asian House Martin,
Long-tailed Tit, Japanese Skylark, Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail, Japanese Bush Warbler, Black-browed Reed Warbler,
Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler, Sakhalin Leaf Warbler, Eastern Crowned Warbler, Red-billed Leiothrix, Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus),
Eurasian Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Chestnut-cheeked Starling, Siberian Thrush, Japanese Thrush, Eyebrowed Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush,
Japanese Robin, Siberian Blue Robin, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin, Daurian Redstart, Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat, Red-bellied Rock Thrush,
Dark-sided Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Brown Dipper, Eurasian Tree Sparrow,
Japanese Accentor, Grey Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Grey-bellied Bullfinch, Japanese Grosbeak,
Meadow Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting, Yellow Bunting, Masked Bunting, Grey Bunting

L3-10. Oze (Gunma, Fukushima, Niigata)

- Bird-watching in the forests and the Japan's largest highland marsh.
- More than two days trip is recommended.
- Best season: June to August
- Past trip report: 2015 July 04-07
Here we have chance to see
Mandarin Duck, Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Little Grebe, Grey Heron, Intermediate Egret, Great Cormorant, Siberian Honey-buzzard,
Grey-faced Buzzard, Japanese Buzzard, Latham's Snipe, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Northern Hawk-Cuckoo, Eastern Common Cuckoo,
Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Lessor Cuckoo, Northern White-throated Needletail, Pacific Swift (kanoi), Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker,
White-backed Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Spotted Nutcracker, South Asian Carrion Crow,
Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Willow Tit, Asian House Martin, Japanese Skylark, Japanese Bush Warbler, Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler,
Sakhalin Leaf Warbler, Eastern Crowned Warbler, Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Eurasian Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Chestnut-cheeked Starling,
Brown-headed Thrush, Japanese Robin, Siberian Blue Robin, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin, Daurian Redstart, Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat,
Dark-sided Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Russet Sparrow, Alpine Accentor, Japanese Accentor,
Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit, Grey-bellied Bullfinch, Japanese Grosbeak, Chestnut-eared Bunting, Masked Bunting



Longer Tours in Izu Islands, Ogasawara Islands

L4-1. Island Miyake-jima (Tokyo)

- See-bird and peculiar species birdwatching in Island Miyakejima nearby Tokyo.
- Two or three days trip including one-night boat stay is recommended.
- Best season: April to June
- Past trip report: 2018 April 08
Here we can search during that season;
Short-Tailed Albatross (ferry), Black-footed Albatross (ferry), Laysan Albatross (ferry), Streaked Shearwater (ferry), Sooty Shearwater (ferry),
Short-tailed Shearwater (ferry), Tristram's Petrel (ferry), Masked Booby (ferry), Indo-pacific Brown Booby (ferry), Japanese Cormorant (ferry),
Great Cormorant (ferry), Parasitic Skua (ferry), Long-tailed Skua (ferry), Pomarine Jaeger/Pomarine Skua (ferry), South Polar Skua (ferry),
Black-tailed Gull (ferry), Slaty-backed Gull (ferry), Vega Gull (ferry), Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake (ferry), Common Tern (ferry),
Little Tern (ferry), Japanese Murrelet (ferry), Grey Heron, Eastern Cattle Egret, Black-crowned Night Heron, Little Egret, Intermediate Egret,
Great Egret, Black Kite, Japanese Buzzard, Osprey, Pacific Golden-Plover, Grey-tailed Tattler, Ruddy Turnstone, Whimbrel, Red-necked Stint,
Oriental Pratincole, Japanese Wood-Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Lessor Cuckoo, Northern Boobook,
Pacific Swift (kanoi), Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker 'Miyake', Mongolian Short-toed Lark/Syke's Short-toed Lark, Asian House Martin, Barn Swallow (gutturalis),
Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Bull-headed Shrike, Winter Wren 'Mosuke', Siberian Blue Robin, Japanese robin 'Tane',
Izu Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Ijima's Leaf-Warbler, Red-bellied Rockthrush, Pleske's Grasshopper-Warbler, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher,
Narcissus Flycatcher, Black Paradise-Flycatcher, Middendorff's Grasshopper-Warbler , Japanese Bush-Warbler, Brown-eared Bulbul,
Mugimaki Flycatcher, Owston's Tit, Japanese Tit, Japanese White-eye 'Shichitou', Siberian Meadow Bunting, Brambling,
Grey-capped Greenfinch, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Chestnut-cheeked Starling, Japanese Jungle Crow

L4-2. Hachijo Island (Tokyo)

- See-bird and peculiar species birdwatching in Hachijo Island.
- Two or three days trip including one-night boat stay is recommended.
- Best season: April to June
- Past trip report: 2017 April 12-13
Here we can search during that season;
Short-Tailed Albatross (ferry), Black-footed Albatross (ferry), Laysan Albatross (ferry), Streaked Shearwater (ferry), Sooty Shearwater (ferry),
Short-tailed Shearwater (ferry), Tristram's Petrel (ferry), Masked Booby (ferry), Indo-pacific Brown Booby (ferry), Japanese Cormorant (ferry),
Great Cormorant (ferry), Parasitic Skua (ferry), Long-tailed Skua (ferry), Pomarine Jaeger/Pomarine Skua (ferry), South Polar Skua (ferry),
Black-tailed Gull (ferry), Slaty-backed Gull (ferry), Vega Gull (ferry), Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake (ferry), Common Tern (ferry),
Little Tern (ferry), Japanese Murrelet (ferry), Grey Heron, Eastern Cattle Egret, Black-crowned Night Heron, Little Egret, Intermediate Egret,
Great Egret, Black Kite, Japanese Buzzard, Osprey, Pacific Golden-Plover, Grey-tailed Tattler, Ruddy Turnstone, Whimbrel, Red-necked Stint,
Oriental Pratincole, Japanese Wood-Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Lessor Cuckoo, Northern Boobook,
Pacific Swift (kanoi), Mongolian Short-toed Lark/Syke's Short-toed Lark, Asian House Martin, Barn Swallow (gutturalis),
Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Bull-headed Shrike, Winter Wren 'Mosuke', Siberian Blue Robin, Japanese robin 'Tane',
Izu Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Ijima's Leaf-Warbler, Red-bellied Rockthrush, Pleske's Grasshopper-Warbler, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher,
Narcissus Flycatcher, Black Paradise-Flycatcher, Middendorff's Grasshopper-Warbler , Japanese Bush-Warbler (C.d.cantans),
Brown-eared Bulbul, Mugimaki Flycatcher, Owston's Tit, Japanese Tit, Japanese White-eye 'Shichitou',
Siberian Meadow Bunting, Brambling, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Chestnut-cheeked Starling, Japanese Jungle Crow

L4-3. Ogasawara (Tokyo)
- See birdwatching from the boat to/from Tokyo and Ogasawara and peculiar species bird-watching at Ogasawara islands.
- Around one week trip depending on the boat schdule.
- Best season: May to September
- Past trip report: 2017 September 08-13
Here we have chance to see
On the Boat (Tokyo - Chichi-jima cruise (T-C), Chichi-jima - Haha-jima cruise (C-H), Chichi-jima - Minami-Io-jima cruise (C-I));

Pacific Loon/Pacific Diver, (T-C), Short-Tailed Albatross (T-C), Black-footed Albatross (T-C, C-H), Laysan Albatross (T-C, C-H), Flesh-footed Shearwater (T-C),
Buller's Shearwater (T-C), Bryan’s Shearwater (T-C, C-H), Sooty Shearwater (T-C, C-H), Short-tailed Shearwater (T-C, C-H),
Little Shearwater (T-C, C-H), Streaked Shearwater (T-C, C-H, C-I), Bannerman's Shearwater (T-C, C-H, C-I), Bannerman's shearwater (T-C, C-H, C-I),
Wedge-tailed Shearwater (T-C, C-H, C-I), Black Petrel (T-C), Black-winged Petrel (T-C), Providence Petrel (T-C), Mottled Petrel (T-C),
Stejneger's Petrel (T-C, C-H), Juan Fernandez Petrel (T-C, C-H, C-I), Kermadec Petrel (T-C, C-H, C-I), Bonin Petrel (T-C, C-H, C-I),
Bulwer's Petrel (T-C, C-H, C-I), Tristram's Petrel (T-C, C-H, C-I), Hawaiian Petrel (C-I), Northern Fulmar (Pacific) (T-C), Antarctic Storm-Petrel (T-C),
Matsudaira's Storm-Petrel (T-C), Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel (T-C), Leach's Storm-Petrel (T-C, C-I), Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel (T-C, C-I),
White-tailed Tropic Bird (T-C), Red-tailed Tropic Bird (T-C, C-H, C-I), Red-footed Booby (T-C, C-I), Indo-pacific Brown Booby (T-C, C-H, C-I),
Pelagic Cormorant (T-C), Red-necked Phalarope (T-C), Red Phalarope (T-C), Masked Booby (T-C), Long-tailed Skua (T-C, C-H),
South Polar Skua (T-C, C-H), Pomarine Jaeger/Pomarine Skua (T-C, C-H, C-I), Parasitic Skua (T-C, C-H, C-I), Glaucous-winged Gull (T-C),
Black-tailed Gull (T-C, C-H), Common Tern (T-C), Little Tern (T-C), Aleutian Tern (T-C), Greater Crested Tern (T-C, C-H),
Pacific White Tern (T-C, C-I), Noddy Tern (T-C, C-H, C-I), Sooty Tern (T-C, C-H, C-I), Bridled Tern (T-C, C-H, C-I), Black Noddy (T-C, C-H, C-I),
Rhinoceros Auklet (T-C), Parakeet Auklet (T-C), Ancient Murrelet (T-C), Japanese Murrelet (T-C), Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (T-C),
Siberian Honey-buzzard (T-C)

In the Island;

Japanese Cormorant (Chichi-jima), Great Cormorant (Haha-jima), Lesser Frigatebird (Haha-jima), Grey Heron (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima),
Chinese Pond-Heron (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Eastern Cattle Egret (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Eurasian Great Egret (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima),
Black-crowned Night Heron (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Little Egret (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Striated Heron (amurensis) (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima),
Intermediate Egret (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Northern Pintail (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Common Teal (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima),
Eurasian Wigeon (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Mallard (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Eastern Peregrine Falcon (Chichi-jima), Goshawk (Haha-jima),
Eurasian Buzzard (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Grey-faced Buzzard (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Japanese Sparrowhawk (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima),
Black Kite (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Osprey (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Common Kestrel (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Hooded Crane (Chichi-jima),
Common Coot (Haha-jima), Eurasian Moorhen (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Greater Sand Plover (Chichi-jima), Grey Plover (Chichi-jima),
Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni) (Chichi-jima), Central Asian Common Redshank (Chichi-jima), Ruff (Chichi-jima),
Western Little Ringed Plover (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Kentish Plover (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima),
Northern Lapwing (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Pacific Golden-Plover (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Solitary Snipe (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima),
Terek Sandpiper (Chichi-jima), Green Sandpiper (Haha-jima), Marsh Sandpiper (Haha-jima), Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Haha-jima),
Wood Sandpiper (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Pectoral Sandpiper (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Common Sandpiper (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima),
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit (Chichi-jima), Long-billed Dowitcher (Chichi-jima),
Long-toed Stint (Chichi-jima), Wandering Tattler (Chichi-jima), Eastern Black-tailed Godwit (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima),
Grey-tailed Tattler (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Ruddy Turnstone (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Whimbrel (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima),
Red-necked Stint (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Siberian Dunlin (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Black-winged Stilt (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima),
Common Snipe (Haha-jima), Latham's Snipe (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Oriental Pratincole (Chichi-jima), Kamchatka Gull (Chichi-jima),
Slaty-backed Gull (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Glaucous Gull (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Vega Gull (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima),
Siberian Black-headed Gull (Haha-jima), Whiskered Tern (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), White-winged Tern (Chichi-jima),
Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove (Chichi-jima), Bonin Wood-Pigeon (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Eastern Common Cuckoo (Haha-jima),
Pacific Swift (kanoi) (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Common Kingfisher (Haha-jima), Japanese Wryneck (Haha-jima),
Red-rumped Swallow (Chichi-jima), Kamchatka Sand Martin (Chichi-jima), Small House-Swallow (Haha-jima),
Asian House Martin (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Grey Wagtail (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima),
Green-headed Wagtail (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Black-backed Wagtail (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian) (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima),
Ashy Minivet (Chichi-jima), Bull-headed Shrike (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Daurian Redstart (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima),
Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (Chichi-jima), Red-bellied Rockthrush (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Brown-eared Bulbul (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima),
Radde's Warbler (Chichi-jima), Eastern Crowned-Warbler (Chichi-jima), Japanese Bush-Warbler (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima),
Black Paradise-Flycatcher (Chichi-jima), Pale Thrush (Chichi-jima), Dusky Thrush (Chichi-jima), White's Thrush (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima),
Japanese Tit (Haha-jima), Japanese White-eye (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Bonin Island Honeyeater (Haha-jima),
Black-faced Bunting (Chichi-jima), Black-headed Bunting (Chichi-jima), Yellow-headed Bunting (Chichi-jima), Common Rosefinch (Chichi-jima),
Brambling (Haha-jima), Ogasawara Greenfinch (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Japanese Hawfinch (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima),
Chestnut-cheeked Starlin (Chichi-jima), Eurasian Siskin (Haha-jima), Siberian Common Starling (Haha-jima),
White-cheeked Starling (Chichi-jima, Haha-jima), Japanese Grosbeak (Haha-jima), Rook (Chichi-jima)



Longer Tours in Tokai Region

L5-1. Mt. Norikura (Gifu, Nagano)

- Alpine birdwatching at the top (Daikoku-dake 2,772 m) and the forest of Mt. Norikura.
- Two days trip is recommended in summer season.
- Best season: June to August
- Past trip report: 2018 June 26
Here we have chance to see
Rock Ptarmigan (japonica), Common Kestrel, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Siberian Honey-buzzard, Black Kite, Japanese Sparrowhawk, Goshawk,
Japanese Buzzard, Japanese Golden Eagle, Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis), Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon,
Northern Hawk-Cuckoo, Eastern Common Cuckoo, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Lessor Cuckoo, Ural Owl, Grey Nightjar, Pacific Swift (kanoi),
Common Kingfisher, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, White-backed Woodpecker,
Great Spotted Woodpecker, Japanese Woodpecker, Ashy Minivet, Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Jay, Japanese Spotted Nutcracker,
South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Willow Tit, Barn Swallow (gutturalis),
Asian House Martin, Long-tailed Tit, Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail, Japanese Bush Warbler, Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler,
Eastern Crowned Warbler, Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Eurasian Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Chestnut-cheeked Starling,
Siberian Thrush, White's thrush, Japanese Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Japanese Robin, Siberian Blue Robin, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin,
Dark-sided Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Russet Sparrow,
Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Alpine Accentor, Japanese Accentor, Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit,
Grey-capped Greenfinch, Grey-bellied Bullfinch, Japanese Grosbeak, Meadow Bunting, Masked Bunting, Grey Bunting

L5-2. Nigorigo Spa (Gifu)

- Highland birdwatching around the spa resort at the foot of Mt. Ontake.
- Two days trip is recommended in summer season.
- Best season: June to July
- Past trip report: 2018 June 23-24
Here we have chance to see
Siberian Honey-buzzard, Black Kite, Japanese Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Japanese Buzzard, Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis),
Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Northern Hawk-Cuckoo, Eastern Common Cuckoo,
Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Lessor Cuckoo, Ural Owl, Grey Nightjar, Pacific Swift (kanoi), Common Kingfisher,
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, White-backed Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Japanese Woodpecker,
Ashy Minivet, Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Jay, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow,
Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Willow Tit, Barn Swallow (gutturalis), Asian House Martin, Long-tailed Tit,
Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail, Japanese Bush Warbler, Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler, Sakhalin Leaf Warbler,
Eastern Crowned Warbler, Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Eurasian Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Chestnut-cheeked Starling,
Siberian Thrush, White's thrush, Japanese Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Japanese Robin, Siberian Blue Robin,
Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin, Dark-sided Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher,
Russet Sparrow, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit,
Grey-capped Greenfinch, Grey-bellied Bullfinch, Japanese Grosbeak, Meadow Bunting, Masked Bunting, Grey Bunting

L5-3. Hirugano Highland (Gifu)

- Birdwatching at the highland with wetlands, grass fields, farm fields, forests, ponds and stream.
- Two days trip is recommended in summer season.
- Best season: May to June
- Past trip report: 2018 June 24-25
Here we have chance to see
Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Siberian Honey-buzzard, Black Kite, Japanese Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Japanese Buzzard,
Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Eastern Common Cuckoo, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Lessor Cuckoo,
Northern White-throated Needletail, Pacific Swift (kanoi), Common Kingfisher, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker,
Great Spotted Woodpecker, Japanese Woodpecker, Ashy Minivet, Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Jay, South Asian Carrion Crow,
Japanese Jungle Crow, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Willow Tit, Barn Swallow (gutturalis), Asian House Martin, Long-tailed Tit,
Japanese Skylark, Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail, Japanese Bush Warbler, Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler,
Eastern Crowned Warbler, Honshu White-eye, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Eurasian Nuthatch, Chestnut-cheeked Starling,
White-cheeked Starling, Siberian Thrush, White's Thrush, Japanese Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Siberian Blue Robin,
Asian Brown Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Russet Sparrow, Eurasian Tree Sparrow,
Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Japanese Grosbeak, Meadow Bunting

L5-4. Mt. Inoko & Mt. Ibuki (Gifu)

- Watching of eagles and hawks
- More than Two days trip is recommended.
- Best season: September to October
- Past trip report: 2013 July 16
Here we have chance to see
Common Kestrel, Northern Hobby, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Siberian Honey-buzzard, Black Kite, Eastern Marsh-Harrier,
Hen Harrier, Japanese Sparrowhawk, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Grey-faced Buzzard, Japanese Buzzard,
Japanese Golden Eagle, Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis), Great Cormorant, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon,
Northern Hawk-Cuckoo, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Lessor Cuckoo, Northern White-throated Needletail, Pacific Swift (kanoi),
House Swift, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Japanese Woodpecker, Ashy Minivet, Bull-headed Shrike,
Japanese Jay, Eastern Rook, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit,
Kamchatka Sand Martin, Barn Swallow (gutturalis), Asian House Martin, Red-rumped Swallow, Long-tailed Tit, Brown-eared Bulbul,
Japanese Bush Warbler, Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler, Honshu White-eye, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Siberian Thrush, Japanese Thrush, Pale Thrush,
Dusky Thrush, Daurian Redstart, Grey-streaked Flycatcher, Dark-sided Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher,
Mugimaki Flycatcher, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Eurasian Siskin,
Japanese Hawfinch, Japanese Grosbeak, Meadow Bunting, Masked Bunting



Longer Tours in Hokuriku Region

L6-1. Hegura Island (Ishikawa)

- Birdwatching at the remote island at the center of the Japan sea.
- More than three days trip is recommended. * There is a risk that the boat will be cancelled due to bad weather conditions, so we must secure the schedule considering such risk.
- Best season: May, October to November
- Past trip report: 2018 May 14-15, 2015 November 01-02
Here we have chance to see
Japanese Quail, Bean Goose, Greater White-fronted Goose (Tundra), Black Brant, Black Brant (Pacific), Whooper Swan, Tundra Swan/Tundra Swan/Bewick's Swan,
Mandarin Duck, Gadwall, Falcated Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler, Eurasian Teal/Common Teal,
Pochard, Greater Scaup (American), Pacific Harlequin Duck, Long-tailed Duck, Common Goldeneye, Common Merganser/Goosander,
Streaked Shearwater, Flesh-footed Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Short-tailed Shearwater, Band-rumped Storm-Petrel,
Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel, Leach's Storm-Petrel, Little Grebe, Holboll's Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Horned Grebe,
Black-necked Grebe, Crested Ibis, Striated Heron (amurensis), Japanese Night-Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Chinese Pond-Heron,
Eastern Cattle Egret, Grey Heron, Eastern Purple Heron, Eurasian Great Egret, Eastern Great Egret, Intermediate Egret, Little Egret,
Pacific Reef Heron/Pacific Reef-Egret, Chinese Egret, Indo-pacific Brown Booby, Great Cormorant, Japanese Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant, Common Kestrel,
Amur Falcon, Merlin, Northern Hobby, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Siberian Honey-buzzard, Black Kite, Steller's Sea-Eagle,
Eastern Marsh-Harrier, Hen Harrier, Chinese Sparrowhawk, Japanese Sparrowhawk, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk,
Grey-faced Buzzard, Japanese Buzzard, Siberian Rough-legged Hawk, Brown-cheeked Rail, White-breasted Waterken,
Ruddy-breasted Crake, Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot, Northern Lapwing, Grey-headed Lapwing, Pacific Golden-Plover, Grey Plover,
Long-billed Plover, Western Little Ringed Plover, Kentish Plover, Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni), Common Greater Painted-snipe,
European Woodcock, Jack Snipe, Solitary Snipe, Latham's Snipe, Pin-tailed Snipe, Swinhoe's Snipe, Common Snipe,
Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit, Little Curlew, Whimbrel, Far Eastern Curlew, Spotted Redshank, Marsh Sandpiper, Common Greenshank,
Green Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Grey-tailed Tattler, Wandering Tattler, Common Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone, Red-necked Stint,
Temminck's Stint, Long-toed Stint, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Siberian Dunlin, Red-necked Phalarope, Red Phalarope, Oriental Pratincole,
Black-tailed Gull, Vega Gull, Slaty-backed Gull, Siberian Black-headed Gull, Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake, Common Tern, Aleutian Tern,
South Polar Skua, Pomarine Jaeger/Pomarine Skua, Parasitic Jaeger, Eastern Long-tailed Jaeger, Japanese Murrelet, Parakeet Auklet,
Japanese Wood-Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Chestnut-winged Cuckoo, Northern Hawk-Cuckoo,
Indian Cuckoo, Eastern Common Cuckoo, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Lessor Cuckoo, Japanese Scops-Owl, Oriental Scope-Owl, Ural Owl,
Northern Boobook, Short-eared Owl, Grey Nightjar, Northern White-throated Needletail, Pacific Swift (kanoi), House Swift,
Oriental Dollarbird/Dollarbird, Black-capped Kingfisher, Common Kingfisher, Eurasian Hoopoe, Japanese Wryneck, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker,
Great Spotted Woodpecker, Japanese Woodpecker, Fairy pitta, Ashy Minivet, Tiger Shrike, Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Shrike,
Brown Shrike, Long-tailed Shrike (Taiwan), Black-naped Oriole, Black Drongo (cathoecus), Ashy Drongo, Black Paradise-Flycatcher, Japanese Jay,
Daurian Jackdaw, Eastern Rook, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Bohemian Waxwing, Japanese Waxwing, Japanese Tit, Coal Tit,
Varied Tit, Willow Tit, Kamchatka Sand Martin, Barn Swallow (gutturalis), Barn Swallow, Eastern House Martin, Asian House Martin,
Red-rumped Swallow, Long-tailed Tit, Mongolian Short-toed Lark/Syke's Short-toed Lark, Asian Short-toed Lark, Japanese Skylark, Large Japanese Sky-Lark,
Pallid Horned Lark, Asian Stubtail, Japanese Bush Warbler, Korean Bush-Warbler, Lanceolated Warbler, Pallas's Grasshopper-Warbler,
Middendorff's Warbler, Sakhalin grasshopper warbler, Oriental Reed Warbler, Black-browed Reed Warbler, Siberian Willow Warbler, Siberian Chiffchaff,
Wood Warbler, Common Dusky Warbler, Radde's Warbler, Pallas's Leaf Warbler, Yellow-browed Warbler, Arctic Warbler,
Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler, Kamchatka Leaf Warbler, Pale-legged Leaf Warbler, Sakhalin Leaf Warbler, Two-barred Greenish Warbler,
Eastern Crowned Warbler, Chestnut-flanked White-eye, Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest, Treecreeper, Daurian Starling, Chestnut-cheeked Starling,
Red-billed Starling, White-cheeked Starling, Siberian Common Starling, Siberian Thrush, White's thrush, Grey-backed Thrush,
Japanese Thrush, Chinese Blackbird, Eyebrowed Thrush, Pale Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Black-throated Thrush,
Red-throated Thrush, Naumann's Thrush, Dusky Thrush, Red-spotted Bluethroat, Japanese Robin, Greater Kamchatkan Rubythroat,
Siberian Blue Robin, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin, Rufous-tailed Robin, Daurian Redstart, Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat, Isabelline Wheatear,
Northern Wheatear, Pied Wheatear, Desert Wheatear, Red-bellied Rock Thrush, White-throated Rock Thrush, Grey-streaked Flycatcher,
Dark-sided Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Yellow-rumped Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher, Mugimaki Flycatcher, Taiga Flycatcher,
Red-breasted Flycatcher, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher, House Sparrow, Russet Sparrow, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Alpine Accentor,
Western Siberian Accentor, Japanese Accentor, Forest Wagtail, Green-headed Wagtail, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Manchurian Yellow Wagtail,
Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Northern Citrine Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Amur Wagtail, East Siberian Wagtail,
Baikal Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Richard's Pipit, Richard's Pipit, Blyth's Pipit, Tree Pipit, Olive-backed Pipit, Red-throated Pipit,
Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian), Brambling, Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.minor), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba), Eurasian Siskin, Common Redpoll,
Coues' Redpoll, Asian Rosy-Finch (brunneonucha), Long-tailed Rosefinch, Common Rosefinch, Pallas' Rosefinch, Pine Grosbeak, Red Crossbill,
Eurasian White-winged Crossbill, Grey-bellied Bullfinch, Eurasian Bullfinch, Japanese Hawfinch, Chinese Grosbeak/Yellow-billed Grosbeak,
Japanese Grosbeak, Western Pine Bunting, Meadow Bunting, Tristram's Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting, Little Bunting, Yellow-browed Bunting,
Rustic Bunting, Yellow-headed Bunting, Yellow-breasted Bunting, Chestnut Bunting, Black-headed Bunting, Yellow Bunting, Masked Bunting,
Western Black-faced Bunting, Grey Bunting, Western Pallas's Bunting, Japanese Reed Bunting, Reed Bunting , Lapland Longspur,
Siberian Snow Bunting, Gambel's Sparrow

L6-2. Ishikawaken Kenmin Seaside Park (Ishikwa)

- Highland birdwatching around the spa resort at the foot of Mt. Ontake.
- Two days trip is recommended.
- Best season: April to May, October to November
- Past trip report: 2018 April 13-14
Here we have chance to see
Siberian Honey-buzzard, Black Kite, Japanese Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Japanese Buzzard, Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis),
Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Northern Hawk-Cuckoo, Eastern Common Cuckoo,
Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Lessor Cuckoo, Ural Owl, Grey Nightjar, Pacific Swift (kanoi), Common Kingfisher,
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, White-backed Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Japanese Woodpecker,
Ashy Minivet, Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Jay, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow,
Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Willow Tit, Barn Swallow (gutturalis), Asian House Martin, Long-tailed Tit,
Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail, Japanese Bush Warbler, Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler, Sakhalin Leaf Warbler,
Eastern Crowned Warbler, Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Eurasian Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Chestnut-cheeked Starling,
Siberian Thrush, White's thrush, Japanese Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Japanese Robin, Siberian Blue Robin,
Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin, Dark-sided Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher,
Russet Sparrow, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit,
Grey-capped Greenfinch, Grey-bellied Bullfinch, Japanese Grosbeak, Meadow Bunting, Masked Bunting, Grey Bunting

L6-3. Kahokugata Lagoon (Ishikwa)

- Watching migrating shorebirds or wintering waterfowls and raptors at the lagoon and reclaimed land.
- One or two days trip is recommended.
- Best season: September to May
- Past trip report: 2017 December 30
Here we have chance to see
Green Pheasant (kigis), Swan Goose (migrant), Bean Goose (winter), Greylag Goose (Siberian) (migrant), Greater White-fronted Goose (Tundra) (winter),
Cackling Goose (Aleutian) (winter), Black Brant (winter), Tundra Swan/Tundra Swan/Bewick's Swan (winter), Mandarin Duck (migrant), Gadwall (winter), Falcated Duck (winter),
Eurasian Wigeon (winter), American Wigeon (winter), Mallard (winter), Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler (winter),
Northern Pintail (winter), Garganey (migrant), Baikal Teal (winter), Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter), Pochard (winter), Tufted Duck (winter),
Greater Scaup (American) (winter), Pacific Harlequin Duck (winter), Stejneger's Scoter/White-winged Scoter (Siberian) (winter), Black Scoter (winter), Smew (winter),
Common Merganser/Goosander (winter), Red-breasted Merganser (winter), Black-throated Loon/Black-throated Diver/Arctic Loon (Green-throated) (migrant), Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe,
Black-necked Grebe (winter), Eurasian Spoonbill (migrant), Black-faced Spoonbill (migrant), Black-crowned Night Heron,
Eastern Cattle Egret (migrant), Grey Heron, Eurasian Great Egret (winter), Eastern Great Egret (migrant), Intermediate Egret (migrant),
Little Egret, Pacific Reef Heron/Pacific Reef-Egret (migrant), Chinese Egret (migrant), Great Cormorant, Japanese Cormorant (winter), Pelagic Cormorant (winter),
Common Kestrel, Merlin (winter), Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Black Kite, White-tailed Eagle (winter), Eastern Marsh-Harrier,
Hen Harrier (winter), Goshawk, Japanese Buzzard, Siberian Rough-legged Hawk (winter), Upland Buzzard (winter), Eurasian Moorhen,
Common Coot (winter), White-naped Crane (migrant), Eastern Common Crane (migrant), Hooded Crane (migrant),
Kamtchatka Oystercatcher (winter), Black-winged Stilt (migrant), Northern Lapwing (winter), Grey-headed Lapwing,
Pacific Golden-Plover (migrant), Eurasian Golden Plover (migrant), Grey Plover (migrant), Western Little Ringed Plover (migrant),
Kentish Plover, Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni) (migrant), Common Snipe (winter), Long-billed Dowitcher (winter), Eastern Black-tailed Godwit (migrant),
Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit (migrant), Whimbrel (migrant), Far Eastern Curlew (migrant), Spotted Redshank (migrant),
Common Greenshank (migrant), Nordmann's Greenshank (migrant), Green Sandpiper (migrant), Wood Sandpiper (migrant),
Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant), Terek Sandpiper (migrant), Common Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone (migrant), Great Knot (migrant),
Red Knot (rogersi) (migrant), Sandering (winter), Red-necked Stint (migrant), Little Stint (migrant), Temminck's Stint (winter),
Long-toed Stint (migrant), Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (migrant), Curlew Sandpiper (migrant), Siberian Dunlin (winter),
Spoon-billed Sandpiper (migrant), Eastern Broad-billed Sandpiper (migrant), Red-necked Phalarope (migrant), Black-tailed Gull (migrant),
Kamchatka Gull (winter), Glaucous Gull (winter), Vega Gull (winter), Slaty-backed Gull (winter), Siberian Gull (migrant),
Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter), Saunder's Gull (winter), Caspian Tern (winter), Common Tern (migrant), Gull-billed Tern (migrant),
Whiskered Tern (migrant), North Pacific Murre (winter), Rock Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Short-eared Owl (winter),
Common Kingfisher, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Bull-headed Shrike, Black Paradise-Flycatcher (migrant), Azure-winged Magpie,
Daurian Jackdaw (winter), Eastern Rook (winter), South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Bohemian Waxwing (winter),
Japanese Waxwing (winter), Long-tailed Tit (winter), Mongolian Short-toed Lark/Syke's Short-toed Lark (migrant), Japanese Skylark,
Pallid Horned Lark (winter), Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler, Oriental Reed Warbler (migrant),
Black-browed Reed Warbler (migrant), White-cheeked Starling, Siberian Common Starling (winter), White's Thrush (winter),
Daurian Redstart (winter), Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (migrant), Northern Wheatear (migrant), Red-bellied Rock Thrush,
Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant), Asian Brown Flycatcher (migrant), Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (migrant),
Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Meadow Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting (migrant),
Yellow-headed Bunting (winter), Masked Bunting (migrant), Grey Bunting (migrant), Western Pallas's Bunting (winter), Reed Bunting (winter)

L6-4. Nakaikemi-shicchi Wetland & Ikenokochi Moor (Fukui)

- Birdwatching in the moors.
- Two days trip is recommended.
- Best season: April to June, October to November
- Past trip report: 2017 October 14-15, 2017 November 03
Here we have chance to see
Mandarin Duck (summer), Mallard (winter), Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter), Grey Heron (migrant),
Eastern Great Egret (migrant), Little Egret (migrant), Black Kite, Hen Harrier (migrant), Ruddy-breasted Crake (summer),
Common Coot (winter), Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo (summer), Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker,
Japanese Woodpecker, Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Jay, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Bohemian Waxwing (winter),
Japanese Waxwing (winter), Japanese Tit, Varied Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail (summer, migrant),
Japanese Bush Warbler, Black-browed Reed Warbler (migrant), Kamchatka Leaf Warbler (migrant), Red-billed Leiothrix, Honshu White-eye,
Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Japanese Thrush (summer), Pale Thrush (migrant, winter), Dusky Thrush (migrant, winter), Daurian Redstart (migrant, winter),
Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (migrant), Red-bellied Rock Thrush (migrant), Narcissus Flycatcher (summer, migrant),
Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (summer), Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit (migrant), Brambling (migrant, winter),
Grey-capped Greenfinch (migrant, winter), Eurasian Siskin (migrant), Long-tailed Rosefinch (migrant, winter), Red Crossbill (winter),
Grey-bellied Bullfinch (winter), Japanese Grosbeak (migrant, winter), Meadow Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting (migrant),
Little Bunting (migrant), Rustic Bunting (migrant, winter), Yellow-headed Bunting (migrant, winter), Yellow Bunting (migrant),
Masked Bunting (migrant, winter), Grey Bunting (winter), Reed Bunting (migrant, winter)

L6-5. Mikata-goko Lakes (Fukui)

- Watching the wintering swans, ducks, grebes and raptors around the lakes.
- One or two days trip is recommended.
- Best season: November to February
- Past trip report: 2018 February 04
Here we have chance to see
Japanese Quail, Whooper Swan, Tundra Swan/Tundra Swan/Bewick's Swan, Mandarin Duck, Gadwall, Falcated Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, Mallard, Northern Pintail,
Eurasian Teal/Common Teal, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Pacific Harlequin Duck, Stejneger's Scoter/White-winged Scoter (Siberian), Common Goldeneye, Smew, Common Merganser/Goosander, Little Grebe,
Great Crested Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Grey Heron, Eurasian Great Egret, Great Cormorant, Japanese Cormorant, Osprey, Black Kite,
White-tailed Eagle, Steller's Sea-Eagle, Eastern Marsh-Harrier, Japanese Buzzard, Common Coot, Kamchatka Gull, Vega Gull,
Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Common Kingfisher, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Japanese Woodpecker,
Bull-headed Shrike, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Japanese Tit, Varied Tit, Long-tailed Tit,
Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler, Red-billed Leiothrix, Honshu White-eye, White-cheeked Starling,
Pale Thrush, Dusky Thrush, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin, Daurian Redstart, Red-bellied Rock Thrush, Brown Dipper, Eurasian Tree Sparrow,
Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit, Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian), Brambling, Grey-capped Greenfinch,
Eurasian Siskin, Common Redpoll, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Japanese Hawfinch, Japanese Grosbeak, Meadow Bunting, Rustic Bunting,
Yellow-headed Bunting, Masked Bunting, Reed Bunting



Longer Tours in Chuugoku Region

L7-1. Mishima Island (Yamaguchi)

- Birdwatching at the remote island at the south of the Japan sea.
- More than three days trip is recommended. * There is a risk that the boat will be cancelled due to bad weather conditions, so we must secure the schedule considering such risk.
- Best season: April to May, September to October
Here we have chance to see
Black Brant, Tundra Swan/Bewick's Swan, Mandarin Duck, Gadwall, Falcated Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck,
Northern Shoveler, Eurasian Teal/Common Teal, Common Merganser/Goosander, Red-breasted Merganser, Red-throated Loon/Red-throated Diver, Streaked Shearwater,
Little Grebe, Yellow Bittern, Striated Heron (amurensis), Japanese Night-Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Eastern Cattle Egret,
Grey Heron, Eastern Purple Heron, Eurasian Great Egret, Eastern Great Egret, Intermediate Egret, Little Egret, Pacific Reef Heron/Pacific Reef-Egret,
Chinese Egret, Great Cormorant, Japanese Cormorant, Common Kestrel, Amur Falcon, Northern Hobby, Eastern Peregrine Falcon,
Osprey, Siberian Honey-buzzard, Black Kite, Chinese Sparrowhawk, Japanese Sparrowhawk, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk,
Goshawk, Grey-faced Buzzard, Japanese Buzzard, Ruddy-breasted Crake, Eurasian Moorhen, Black-winged Stilt, Grey-headed Lapwing,
Pacific Golden-Plover, Grey Plover, Western Little Ringed Plover, Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni), European Woodcock, Latham's Snipe,
Pin-tailed Snipe, Swinhoe's Snipe, Common Snipe, Eastern Black-tailed Godwit, Little Curlew, Whimbrel,
Eastern Eurasian Curlew, Far Eastern Curlew, Central Asian Common Redshank, Marsh Sandpiper, Common Greenshank ,
Green Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Grey-tailed Tattler, Terek Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone, Red-necked Stint,
Long-toed Stint, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Curlew Sandpiper, Red-necked Phalarope, Oriental Pratincole, Black-tailed Gull, ,br. Kamchatka Gull, Vega Gull, Slaty-backed Gull, Pomarine Jaeger/Pomarine Skua, Ancient Murrelet, Japanese Murrelet, Rhinoceros Auklet,
Rock Pigeon, Japanese Wood-Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Northern Hawk-Cuckoo,
Indian Cuckoo, Eastern Common Cuckoo, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Lessor Cuckoo, Asian Koel, Japanese Scops-Owl, Oriental Scope-Owl,
Northern Boobook, Grey Nightjar, Northern White-throated Needletail, Pacific Swift (kanoi), Pacific Swift (Northern),
House Swift, Oriental Dollarbird/Dollarbird, Black-capped Kingfisher, Common Kingfisher, Eurasian Hoopoe, Japanese Wryneck, Ashy Minivet,
Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Shrike, Brown Shrike, Northern Shrike (mollis), Black-naped Oriole, King drongo, Ashy Drongo,
Japanese Jay, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Bohemian Waxwing, Japanese Waxwing, Varied Tit, Kamchatka Sand Martin,
Barn Swallow (gutturalis), Barn Swallow, Eastern House Martin, Asian House Martin, Red-rumped Swallow, Mongolian Short-toed Lark/Syke's Short-toed Lark,
Lesser Short-toed Lark, Japanese Skylark, Zitting Cisticola, Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail,
Japanese Bush Warbler, "Korean Bush-Warbler, Middendorff's Warbler, Oriental Reed Warbler, Black-browed Reed Warbler,
Siberian Willow Warbler, Common Dusky Warbler, Yellow-browed Warbler, Arctic Warbler, Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler,
Kamchatka Leaf Warbler, Pale-legged Leaf Warbler, Sakhalin Leaf Warbler, Eastern Crowned Warbler, Chestnut-flanked White-eye,
Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Daurian Starling, Chestnut-cheeked Starling, Red-billed Starling, White-cheeked Starling,
Siberian Common Starling, Siberian Thrush, White's Thrush, Grey-backed Thrush, Japanese Thrush, Eyebrowed Thrush, Pale Thrush,
Brown-headed Thrush, Naumann's Thrush, Dusky Thrush, Japanese Robin, Greater Kamchatkan Rubythroat, Siberian Blue Robin,
Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin, Rufous-tailed Robin, Daurian Redstart, Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat, Red-bellied Rock Thrush,
Grey-streaked Flycatcher, Dark-sided Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Ferruginous Flycatcher, Yellow-rumped Flycatcher,
Narcissus Flycatcher, Mugimaki Flycatcher, Taiga Flycatcher, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher,
Russet Sparrow, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Japanese Accentor, Green-headed Wagtail, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Manchurian Yellow Wagtail,
Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Northern Citrine Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Amur Wagtail, East Siberian Wagtail,
Japanese Wagtail, Richard's Pipit, Blyth's Pipit, Tree Pipit, Olive-backed Pipit, Red-throated Pipit, Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian),
Brambling, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Eurasian Siskin, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Common Rosefinch, Red Crossbill, Grey-bellied Bullfinch,
Japanese Hawfinch, Japanese Grosbeak, Meadow Bunting, Tristram's Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting, Little Bunting,
Yellow-browed Bunting, Rustic Bunting, Yellow-headed Bunting, Yellow-breasted Bunting, Chestnut Bunting, Black-headed Bunting,
Yellow Bunting, Masked Bunting, Western Black-faced Bunting, Grey Bunting, Reed Bunting

L7-2. Yazu-Hatto Furusato-no-Mori (Tottori)

- Birdwatching at the camp site at the sourthern face of Mt. Ougi-no-sen.
- Two days trip is recommended.
- Best season: June to July
- Past trip report: 2017 June 23-25
Here we have chance to see
Ruddy Kingfisher, Oriental Scops Owl, Japanese Scops Owl, Northern Boobook, Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher,
Japanese Paradise Flycatcher, Oriental Cuckoo, Rufous Hawk-cuckoo, Lesser Cuckoo, Grey Nightjar, Japanese Thrush, White's Thrush,
Siberian Thrush, Japanese Green Woodpecker, Great-spotted Woodpecker, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Crested Honey Buzzard, Black Kite,
Barn Swallow (gutturalis), Common Kingfisher, Crested Kingfisher, Eurasian Wren, Eurasian Jay, Jungle Crow, Carrion Crow, Asian Stubtail,
Japanese Grosbeak, White-bellied Green Pigeon, Grey Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Japanese Tit, Willow Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit,
Eurasian Nuthatch, Japanese White-eye, Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Meadow Bunting, Brown Dipper

L7-3. Lake Shinji & Hii River (Shimane)

- Birdwatching at lake, the lower reaches and mouth of river, and paddy fiels along the river.
- One to two days trip
- Best season: December to March
Here we have chance to see
Taiga Bean Goose (Middendorff's), Bean Goose, Greater White-fronted Goose (Tundra), Cackling Goose (Aleutian), Tundra Swan/Bewick's Swan,
Falcated Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail,
Baikal Teal, Eurasian Teal/Common Teal, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Greater Scaup (American), Common Goldeneye, Smew,
Common Merganser/Goosander, Red-breasted Merganser, Little Grebe, Grey Heron, Eurasian Great Egret,
Eastern Great Egret, Little Egret, Great Cormorant, Common Kestrel, Merlin, Eastern Peregrine Falcon,
Osprey, Black Kite, White-tailed Eagle, Eastern Marsh-Harrier, Hen Harrier, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk,
Goshawk, Japanese Buzzard, Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot, Northern Lapwing, Common Snipe, Common Sandpiper ,
Kamchatka Gull, Vega Gull, Siberian Black-headed Gull, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Common Kingfisher,
Bull-headed Shrike, Daurian Jackdaw, Eastern Rook, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow,
Japanese Skylark, Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler, Pale Thrush, Dusky Thrush,
Daurian Redstart, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Japanese Wagtail, Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian), Brambling, Grey-capped Greenfinch,
Japanese Hawfinch, Meadow Bunting, Masked Bunting, Reed Bunting

L7-4. Yamaguchi Prefectural Kirara beach Nature Observation Park (Yamaguchi)

- Birdwatching at the Bird sanctuary with river mouth and reclaimed land with grass fields and ponds.
- One day trip
- Best season: August to September, December to May
Here we have chance to see
Kyushu Green Pheasant, Bean Goose (winter), Greater White-fronted Goose (Tundra) (migrant), Leser White-fronted Goose (migrant),
Common Shelduck (migrant), Gadwall (winter), Falcated Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, American Wigeon (migrant), Mallard,
Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler (migrant, winter), Northern Pintail, Garganey (migrant), Baikal Teal (migrant),
Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (migrant, winter), Pochard, Baer's Pochard (migrant), Ferruginous Pochard (winter), Tufted Duck,
Greater Scaup (American) (winter), Common Goldeneye (migrant), Smew (winter), Red-breasted Merganser (winter), Little Grebe,
Great Crested Grebe (winter), Black-necked Grebe (winter), Eurasian Spoonbill (migrant), Black-faced Spoonbill (migrant, winter),
Eurasian Bittern/Great Bittern (migrant), Black-crowned Night Heron (migrant, summer), Grey Heron, Eurasian Great Egret (winter),
Eastern Great Egret, Intermediate Egret (migrant, summer), Little Egret, Chinese Egret (migrant), Great Cormorant,
Common Kestrel (migrant, winter), Amur Falcon (migrant), Merlin (migrant, winter), Northern Hobby (migrant),
Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Siberian Honey-buzzard (migrant), Black Kite, Eastern Marsh-Harrier, Hen Harrier (winter),
Japanese Sparrowhawk (migrant), Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (migrant, winter), Goshawk, Grey-faced Buzzard (migrant),
Japanese Buzzard (migrant, winter), Brown-cheeked Rail (migrant), Baillon's Crake (migrant), Ruddy-breasted Crake,
Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot, White-naped Crane (migrant), Hooded Crane (migrant), Black-winged Stilt (migrant),
Northern Lapwing (winter), Pacific Golden-Plover (migrant), Grey Plover, Western Little Ringed Plover (migrant), Kentish Plover,
Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni) (migrant), Greater Sand Plover (migrant), European Woodcock (migrant), Common Snipe (migrant, winter),
Eastern Black-tailed Godwit (migrant), Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit (migrant), Whimbrel (migrant), Eastern Eurasian Curlew (migrant),
Far Eastern Curlew (migrant), Spotted Redshank (migrant, winter), Central Asian Common Redshank (migrant), Marsh Sandpiper (migrant),
Common Greenshank, Nordmann's Greenshank (migrant), Green Sandpiper (migrant), Wood Sandpiper (migrant),
Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant, summer), Terek Sandpiper (migrant, summer), Ruddy Turnstone (migrant), Great Knot (migrant),
Red Knot (rogersi) (migrant), Sandering (migrant), Red-necked Stint (migrant), Long-toed Stint (migrant), Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (migrant),
Curlew Sandpiper (migrant), Siberian Dunlin (migrant, winter), Eastern Broad-billed Sandpiper (migrant), Ruff (migrant),
Oriental Pratincole (migrant), Black-tailed Gull (summer, migrant), Kamchatka Gull (migrant), Vega Gull (migrant, winter),
Siberian Black-headed Gull (migrant, winter), Saunder's Gull (migrant, winter), Whiskered Tern, White-winged Tern (migrant),
Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Eastern Common Cuckoo (migrant), Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Short-eared Owl (migrant),
Pacific Swift (kanoi) (migrant), House Swift (migrant), Common Kingfisher, Japanese Wryneck (migrant, winter),
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Japanese Woodpecker (migrant), Bull-headed Shrike, Long-tailed Shrike (Taiwan) (winter),
Black Paradise-Flycatcher (migrant), Daurian Jackdaw (migrant), Eastern Rook (migrant), South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow,
Japanese Tit, Varied Tit (migrant), Chinese Penduline Tit (migrant, winter), Kamchatka Sand Martin (migrant),
Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (migrant, summer), Asian House Martin (migrant), Red-rumped Swallow (migrant), Long-tailed Tit (migrant),
Japanese Skylark, Zitting Cisticola, Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler, Middendorff's Warbler (migrant),
Oriental Reed Warbler (migrant, summer), Black-browed Reed Warbler (migrant, summer), Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler (migrant),
Kamchatka Leaf Warbler (migrant), Sakhalin Leaf Warbler (migrant), Eastern Crowned Warbler (migrant), Honshu White-eye (migrant, winter),
Goldcrest (migrant), Eurasian Wren (fumigatus) (migrant, winter), Chestnut-cheeked Starling (migrant), White-shouldered Starling (migrant),
Red-billed Starling (migrant), White-cheeked Starling (migrant, winter), Siberian Common Starling (migrant), White's Thrush (winter),
Pale Thrush (migrant, winter), Brown-headed Thrush (migrant), Dusky Thrush (migrant, winter), Greater Kamchatkan Rubythroat (migrant),
Siberian Blue Robin (migrant), Daurian Redstart (migrant, winter), Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (migrant), Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant),
Dark-sided Flycatcher (migrant), Asian Brown Flycatcher (migrant), Narcissus Flycatcher (migrant), Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (migrant),
Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Grey Wagtail (migrant), Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian) (migrant, winter),
Brambling (migrant, winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba)(winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.minor), Common Redpoll (migrant),
Long-tailed Rosefinch (winter), Meadow Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting, Yellow-browed Bunting (migrant), Rustic Bunting (migrant, winter),
Masked Bunting (migrant, winter), Reed Bunting (migrant, winter)



Longer Tours in Shikoku

L8-1. Yoshino River & Dejima Bird Sanctuary (Tokushima)

- Birdwatching at the tidal flats, sand banks and reed fields at the river mouth, the Bird sanctuary and paddy fields behind it.
- One or two days trip
- Best season: September to May
Here we have chance to see
Japanese Quail, Shikoku Green Pheasant, Black Brant (winter), Mandarin Duck (winter), Gadwall (winter), American Wigeon (winter),
Northern Shoveler (winter), Garganey (migrant), Baikal Teal (winter), Little Grebe, Eurasian Bittern/Great Bittern,
Black-crowned Night Heron, Chinese Pond-Heron (migrant), Eastern Cattle Egret (summer), Grey Heron, Intermediate Egret (summer),
Reef Heron, Lesser Frigatebird (summer), Northern Hobby (migrant), Hen Harrier (winter), Brown-cheeked Rail (Eastern Water Rail),
Baillon's Crake, Ruddy-breasted Crake, Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot, Northern Lapwing (winter), Grey-headed Lapwing,
Pheasant-tailed Jacana (summer), European Woodcock (winter), Latham's Snipe (migrant), Swinhoe's Snipe (migrant), Spotted Redshank (migrant),
Slaty-backed Gull (winter), Common Tern (migrant), White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Northern Hawk-Cuckoo (summer),
Eastern Common Cuckoo (Asiatic Cuckoo) (summer), Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo (Oriental Cuckoo) (summer), Small Cuckoo (summer), Ural Owl,
Northern Long-eared Owl, Grey Nightjar (migrant), Common Kingfisher, Japanese Wryneck (winter), Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker,
Ashy Minivet (summer), Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Shrike (summer), King Drongo (migrant),
Black Paradise-Flycatcher (migrant), Japanese Waxwing (migrant), Japanese Tit (Great tit),
Kamchatka Sand Martin (Sand Martin) (migrant), Asian House Martin (summer), Red-rumped Swallow (summer, migrant),
Marsh Grassbird (Japanese) (summer), Asian Stubtail (summer), Japanese Bush Warbler, Black-browed Reed Warbler (summer),
Kamchatka Leaf Warbler (migrant), Sakhalin Leaf Warbler (migrant), Eastern Crowned Warbler (migrant),
Honshu White-eye (Japanese White-eye), Goldcrest (winter), Chestnut-cheeked Starling (migrant),
Siberian Common Starling (Common Indian Starling) (migrant), Siberian Thrush (migrant), White's Thrush (migrant),
Japanese Thrush (migrant), Pale Thrush (winter), Brown-headed Thrush (winter), Greater Kamchatkan Rubythroat (Siberian Rubythroat) (migrant),
Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin (winter), Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (Siberian Stonechat) (migrant),
Red-bellied Rock Thrush (Blue Rock Thrush), Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant), Asian Brown Flycatcher (migrant), Narcissus Flycatcher (migrant),
Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (migrant), Grey Wagtail (winter), Olive-backed Pipit (winter), Brambling (winter),
Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba)(winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.minor), Long-tailed Rosefinch (winter), Japanese Hawfinch (winter),
Chestnut-eared Bunting (winter), Yellow-headed Bunting (winter),
Yellow Bunting (Japanese Yellow Bunting) (migrant), Masked Bunting (Black-faced Bunting) (winter)



Longer Tours in Kyushu

L9-1. Imazu & Wajiro Tidal Flats (Fukuoka)

- Birdwatching at the tidal flats of Hakata Bay.
- One or two days trip
- Best season: August to May
Here we have chance to see
Common Shelduck, Gadwall, Falcated Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler,
Northern Pintail, Eurasian Teal/Common Teal, Pochard, Greater Scaup (American), Common Goldeneye, Red-breasted Merganser,
Great Crested Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, Eurasian Spoonbill, Black-faced Spoonbill, Grey Heron, Eurasian Great Egret,
Eastern Great Egret, Little Egret, Chinese Egret, Great Cormorant, Ruddy-breasted Crake, Kamtchatka Oystercatcher,
Grey Plover, Kentish Plover, Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni), Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, Eastern Eurasian Curlew,
Far Eastern Curlew, Common Greenshank, Grey-tailed Tattler, Terek Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone, Great Knot,
Red Knot (rogersi), Sandering, Red-necked Stint, Siberian Dunlin, Eastern Broad-billed Sandpiper, Black-tailed Gull, Kamchatka Gull,
Vega Gull, Siberian Black-headed Gull, Saunder's Gull, Common Kingfisher, Zitting Cisticola, White-cheeked Starling,
Dusky Thrush, Red-bellied Rock Thrush, Black-backed Wagtail, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Meadow Bunting,
Masked Bunting, Reed Bunting

L9-2. Higashi-Yoka Tidal Flat (Saga)

- Birdwatching at the tidal flat of Ariake Bay.
- One or two days trip
- Best season: August to May
- Past trip report: 2016 October 02
Here we have chance to see
Taiga Bean Goose (Middendorff's) (winter), Leser White-fronted Goose (winter), Whooper Swan (winter), Tundra Swan/Bewick's Swan (winter),
Common Shelduck (winter), Ruddy Shelduck (winter), Gadwall (winter), Falcated Duck (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter),
Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler (winter), Northern Pintail (winter), Garganey (migrant), Baikal Teal (winter),
Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter), Pochard (winter), Baer's Pochard (winter), Ferruginous Pochard (winter), Tufted Duck (winter),
Greater Scaup (American) (winter), Red-breasted Merganser, Great Crested Grebe (winter), Eurasian Spoonbill,
Black-faced Spoonbill (migrant, winter), Eurasian Bittern/Great Bittern (migrant), Chinese Pond-Heron (migrant), Grey Heron, Eurasian Great Egret,
Eastern Great Egret (winter), Little Egret, Pacific Reef Heron/Pacific Reef-Egret, Chinese Egret (migrant), Great Cormorant, Japanese Cormorant,
Common Kestrel, Merlin (winter), Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Black Kite, Eastern Marsh-Harrier (winter), Hen Harrier (winter),
Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter), Japanese Buzzard (winter), White-breasted Waterken (migrant), Ruddy-breasted Crake,
White-naped Crane, Kamtchatka Oystercatcher (migrant, winter), Black-winged Stilt (migrant), Northern Lapwing (winter),
Grey-headed Lapwing, Pacific Golden-Plover (migrant), Grey Plover (migrant, winter), Kentish Plover, Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni),
Greater Sand Plover (migrant), Common Greater Painted-snipe, Swinhoe's Snipe (migrant), Long-billed Dowitcher (migrant, winter),
Asian Dowitcher (migrant), Eastern Black-tailed Godwit (migrant), Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit (migrant, winter), Whimbrel (migrant),
Eastern Eurasian Curlew (migrant, winter), Far Eastern Curlew (migrant, winter), Spotted Redshank (migrant, winter),
Central Asian Common Redshank (migrant, winter), Marsh Sandpiper (migrant, winter), Common Greenshank (migrant, winter),
Nordmann's Greenshank (migrant), Wood Sandpiper (migrant, winter), Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant), Terek Sandpiper (migrant),
Common Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone (migrant), Great Knot (migrant, winter), Red Knot (rogersi) (migrant), Sandering (migrant),
Red-necked Stint (migrant, winter), Little Stint (winter), Long-toed Stint (migrant), Pectoral Sandpiper (migrant),
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (migrant), Curlew Sandpiper (migrant), Siberian Dunlin (migrant, winter), Spoon-billed Sandpiper (migrant),
Eastern Broad-billed Sandpiper (migrant), Ruff (migrant, winter), Red-necked Phalarope (migrant), Oriental Pratincole (migrant),
Vega Gull (winter), Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter), Saunder's Gull (migrant, winter), Caspian Tern (migrant),
Gull-billed Tern (migrant), Eastern Common Cuckoo (migrant), Lessor Cuckoo (migrant), Short-eared Owl (migrant), Common Kingfisher,
Eurasian Hoopoe (migrant), Japanese Wryneck (migrant), Bull-headed Shrike, Northern Shrike (mollis) (winter), Daurian Jackdaw (winter),
Eastern Rook (winter), South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Chinese Penduline Tit (migrant), Red-rumped Swallow (migrant),
Mongolian Short-toed Lark/Syke's Short-toed Lark (migrant), Japanese Skylark, Zitting Cisticola, Chestnut-cheeked Starling (migrant),
White-shouldered Starling (migrant), Red-billed Starling (winter), Siberian Common Starling (migrant, winter),
Greater Kamchatkan Rubythroat (migrant), Daurian Redstart (winter), Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (migrant), Narcissus Flycatcher (migrant),
Red-breasted Flycatcher (winter), Russet Sparrow (winter), Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Green-headed Wagtail (migrant),
Eastern Yellow Wagtail (migrant), Manchurian Yellow Wagtail, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Grey-capped Greenfinch,
Meadow Bunting, Tristram's Bunting (migrant), Chestnut-eared Bunting (migrant), Black-headed Bunting (migrant),
Masked Bunting (migrant), Japanese Reed Bunting, Reed Bunting (winter)

L9-3. Tsushima Island (Nagasaki)

- Watching of the migrating birds in the spring and autumn, and tens thousands of Chinese Sparrowhawks in September.
- More than three days trip
- Best season: September, April to June
- Past trip report: 2013 May 01-04, 2014 September 12-14
Here we have chance to see
Japanese Quail (winter), Chinese Bamboo-Partridge, Common Pheasant (Korean), Swan Goose (migrant), Taiga Bean Goose (Middendorff's) (migrant),
Bean Goose (migrant), Greater White-fronted Goose (Tundra) (migrant), Leser White-fronted Goose (migrant), Black Brant (migrant),
Whooper Swan (migrant), Tundra Swan/Bewick's Swan (migrant), Common Shelduck (migrant), Ruddy Shelduck (migrant), Mandarin Duck,
Gadwall (winter), Falcated Duck (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter), American Wigeon (winter), Mallard (winter),
Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler (winter), Northern Pintail (migrant), Garganey (migrant), Baikal Teal (migrant),
Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter), Pochard (migrant), Tufted Duck (winter), Greater Scaup (American) (winter), Pacific Harlequin Duck (winter), Scaly-sided Merganser (migrant), Red-throated Loon/Red-throated Diver (winter), Black-throated Loon/Black-throated Diver/Arctic Loon (Green-throated) (winter), Pacific Loon/Pacific Diver (winter),
Laysan Albatross (migrant), Short-tailed Shearwater (migrant), Little Grebe, Holboll's Grebe (winter), Great Crested Grebe (winter), Black-faced Spoonbill (migrant), Eurasian Bittern/Great Bittern (migrant), Yellow Bittern (migrant), Schrenck's Bittern (migrant), Eastern Cattle Egret (migrant), Grey Heron, Eastern Purple Heron (migrant), Eurasian Great Egret (migrant),
Eastern Great Egret (migrant), Intermediate Egret (migrant), Little Egret, Pacific Reef Heron/Pacific Reef-Egret, Chinese Egret (migrant),
Indo-pacific Brown Booby (migrant), Great Cormorant (winter), Japanese Cormorant (winter), Pelagic Cormorant (winter),
Lesser Kestrel (migrant), Common Kestrel (winter), Amur Falcon (migrant), Merlin (migrant), 0orthern Hobby (migrant),
Gyrfalcon (migrant), Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Siberian Honey-buzzard (migrant), Black Kite, White-tailed Eagle (winter),
Steller's Sea-Eagle (winter), Cinereous Vulture (migrant), Hen Harrier (winter), Pied Harrier (migrant), Chinese Sparrowhawk (migrant),
Japanese Sparrowhawk (winter), Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter), Goshawk (migrant), Grey-faced Buzzard (migrant),
Japanese Buzzard (winter), Upland Buzzard (migrant), Greater Spotted Eagle (migrant), Eastern Imperial Eagle (migrant),
Japanese Golden Eagle (migrant), Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis) (migrant), Swinhoe's Rail (migrant), Brown-cheeked Rail (migrant), Common Coot (winter), Siberian Crane (migrant), Arctic Sandhill Crane (migrant), White-naped Crane (migrant),
Eastern Common Crane (migrant), Hooded Crane (migrant), Kamtchatka Oystercatcher (migrant), Black-winged Stilt (migrant),
Northern Lapwing (migrant), Grey-headed Lapwing (migrant), Pacific Golden-Plover (migrant), Grey Plover (migrant),
Long-billed Plover (migrant), Western Little Ringed Plover, Kentish Plover (migrant), Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni) (migrant),
Oriental Plover (migrant), Pheasant-tailed Jacana (migrant), Common Greater Painted-snipe (migrant), European Woodcock (migrant),
Solitary Snipe (winter), Latham's Snipe (migrant), Pin-tailed Snipe (migrant), Swinhoe's Snipe (migrant), Common Snipe (migrant),
Eastern Black-tailed Godwit (migrant), Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit (migrant), Little Curlew (migrant), Whimbrel (migrant),
Eastern Eurasian Curlew (migrant), Far Eastern Curlew, Spotted Redshank, Central Asian Common Redshank, Marsh Sandpiper (migrant),
Common Greenshank (migrant), Green Sandpiper (migrant), Wood Sandpiper (migrant), Terek Sandpiper (migrant), Common Sandpiper,
Ruddy Turnstone (migrant), Great Knot (migrant), Red Knot (rogersi) (migrant), Sandering (migrant), Western Sandpiper (migrant),
Red-necked Stint (migrant), Temminck's Stint (migrant), Long-toed Stint (migrant), Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (migrant),
Curlew Sandpiper (migrant), Siberian Dunlin (migrant), Eastern Broad-billed Sandpiper (migrant), Ruff (migrant),
Red-necked Phalarope (migrant), Oriental Pratincole, Black-tailed Gull (winter), Kamchatka Gull (winter), Vega Gull (winter),
Slaty-backed Gull (winter), Siberian Gull (migrant), Siberian Black-headed Gull (migrant), Saunder's Gull (migrant),
Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake (migrant), Whiskered Tern (migrant), White-winged Tern (migrant), Spectacled Guillemot (migrant),
Ancient Murrelet (winter), Japanese Murrelet (migrant), Rhinoceros Auklet (winter), Stock Pigeon (migrant), Japanese Wood-Pigeon,
Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Red-collard Dove (migrant), White-bellied Green-Pigeon (migrant), Northern Hawk-Cuckoo (migrant),
Indian Cuckoo (migrant), Eastern Common Cuckoo (migrant), Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo (migrant), Lessor Cuckoo (summer), Lesser Coucal (migrant),
Japanese Scops-Owl, Oriental Scope-Owl (migrant), Northern Boobook (summer), Northern Long-eared Owl (winter), Short-eared Owl (migrant),
Grey Nightjar (migrant), Northern White-throated Needletail (migrant), Pacific Swift (kanoi) (migrant), House Swift (migrant),
Oriental Dollarbird/Dollarbird (migrant), Ruddy Kingfisher (migrant), Black-capped Kingfisher (migrant), Common Kingfisher,
Crested Kingfisher (migrant), Eurasian Hoopoe (migrant), Japanese Wryneck (migrant), Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker,
Great Spotted Woodpecker (D.m.brevirostris) (migrant), Great Spotted Woodpecker, Fairy pitta (summer), Ashy Minivet (migrant),
Tiger Shrike (migrant), Bull-headed Shrike (winter), Japanese Shrike (migrant), Brown Shrike (L.c.lucionensis), Black-headed Shrike (migrant),
Northern Shrike (mollis) (migrant), Black-naped Oriole (migrant), Black Drongo (cathoecus) (migrant), Ashy Drongo (migrant),
Black Paradise-Flycatcher (summer), Japanese Jay, Oriental Magpie (summer), Daurian Jackdaw (winter), Eastern Rook (winter),
South Asian Carrion Crow, Jungle Crow, Bohemian Waxwing (migrant), Japanese Waxwing (migrant), Japanese Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit,
Chinese Penduline Tit (migrant), Kamchatka Sand Martin (migrant), Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Barn Swallow (migrant),
Asian House Martin (migrant), Red-rumped Swallow (summer), Long-tailed Tit, Mongolian Short-toed Lark/Syke's Short-toed Lark (migrant),
Lesser Short-toed Lark (migrant), Japanese Skylark (winter), Pallid Horned Lark (migrant), Zitting Cisticola (migrant),
Light-vented Bulbul/aiwan Bulbul (orii) (migrant), Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail (summer), Japanese Bush Warbler,
Pallas's Grasshopper-Warbler (migrant), Middendorff's Warbler (migrant), Pleske's Warbler (migrant), Sakhalin grasshopper warbler (migrant),
Oriental Reed Warbler (migrant), Black-browed Reed Warbler (migrant), Sedge Warbler (migrant), Siberian Willow Warbler (migrant),
Common Dusky Warbler (migrant), Yellow-browed Warbler (migrant), Sakhalin Leaf Warbler (migrant), Eastern Crowned Warbler (summer),
Chestnut-flanked White-eye (migrant), Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest (winter), Eurasian Wren (fumigatus), Chestnut-cheeked Starling (migrant),
White-shouldered Starling (migrant), Red-billed Starling (migrant), White-cheeked Starling (migrant), Siberian Common Starling (migrant),
Siberian Thrush (migrant), White's Thrush, Grey-backed Thrush (migrant), Japanese Thrush (migrant), Chinese Blackbird (migrant),
Eyebrowed Thrush (migrant), Pale Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush (migrant), Red-throated Thrush (migrant), Naumann's Thrush (winter),
Dusky Thrush (winter), Red-spotted Bluethroat (migrant), Japanese Robin (migrant), Siberian Blue Robin (migrant),
Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin (winter), Rufous-tailed Robin (migrant), Daurian Redstart (winter), Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (migrant),
Isabelline Wheatear (migrant), Northern Wheatear (migrant), Pied Wheatear (migrant), Red-bellied Rock Thrush,
Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant), Dark-sided Flycatcher (migrant), Asian Brown Flycatcher (summer), Yellow-rumped Flycatcher (migrant),
Narcissus Flycatcher (summer), Mugimaki Flycatcher (migrant), Taiga Flycatcher (migrant), Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (summer),
Russet Sparrow (migrant), Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Western Siberian Accentor (migrant), Forest Wagtail (migrant),
Eastern Yellow Wagtail (migrant), Manchurian Yellow Wagtail (migrant), Eastern Yellow Wagtail (migrant),
Northern Citrine Wagtail (migrant), Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail (winter), Amur Wagtail (winter), East Siberian Wagtail (migrant),
Baikal Wagtail (migrant), Japanese Wagtail (migrant), Richard's Pipit (migrant), Blyth's Pipit (migrant), Tree Pipit (migrant),
Olive-backed Pipit (winter), Pechora Pipit (Manzbier's) (migrant), Red-throated Pipit (migrant), Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian) (winter), Brambling (winter),
Grey-capped Greenfinch, Eurasian Siskin (winter), Common Redpoll (migrant), Asian Rosy-Finch (brunneonucha) (migrant), Long-tailed Rosefinch (migrant),
Common Rosefinch (migrant), Pallas' Rosefinch (migrant), Red Crossbill (migrant), Eurasian White-winged Crossbill (migrant),
Grey-bellied Bullfinch (migrant), Eurasian Bullfinch (migrant), Japanese Hawfinch (winter), Chinese Grosbeak/Yellow-billed Grosbeak (migrant),
Japanese Grosbeak (migrant), Eastern Yellowhammer (migrant), Western Pine Bunting (migrant), Meadow Bunting, Tristram's Bunting (migrant),
Chestnut-eared Bunting (migrant), Little Bunting (migrant), Yellow-browed Bunting (migrant), Rustic Bunting (winter),
Yellow-headed Bunting, Yellow-breasted Bunting (migrant), Chestnut Bunting (migrant), Black-headed Bunting (migrant),
Red-headed Bunting (migrant), Yellow Bunting (migrant), Masked Bunting (winter), Western Black-faced Bunting (migrant),
Grey Bunting (winter), Western Pallas's Bunting (migrant), Reed Bunting (migrant), Lapland Longspur (migrant), Siberian Snow Bunting (migrant)

L9-4. Isahaya Reclaimed land (Nagasaki)

- Birdwatching at the vast farm fieds and rivers in the reclaimed land.
- More than one day trip
- Best season: October to May
- Past trip report: 2013 November 13-14
Here we have chance to see
Japanese Quail (winter), Kyushu Green Pheasant, Swan Goose (winter), Taiga Bean Goose (Middendorff's) (winter), Bean Goose (winter),
Greater White-fronted Goose (Tundra) (winter), Leser White-fronted Goose (winter), Whooper Swan (winter), Tundra Swan/Bewick's Swan (winter),
Common Shelduck (migrant, winter), Ruddy Shelduck (winter), Mandarin Duck (migrant), Gadwall (winter), Falcated Duck (winter),
Eurasian Wigeon (winter), Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler (winter), Northern Pintail, Garganey (migrant),
Baikal Teal (winter), Green-winged Teal (winter), Pochard, Baer's Pochard (migrant), Tufted Duck (winter), Greater Scaup (American) (winter),
Common Goldeneye (winter), Smew (winter), Common Merganser/Goosander (winter), Red-breasted Merganser (winter), Red-throated Loon/Red-throated Diver (winter),
Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe (winter), Black-necked Grebe (winter), Black Stork (winter), Eurasian Spoonbill (winter),
Black-faced Spoonbill (winter), Eurasian Bittern/Great Bittern (winter), Yellow Bittern (migrant), Black-crowned Night Heron, Chinese Pond-Heron (migrant),
Grey Heron, Eastern Purple Heron (migrant), Eurasian Great Egret (winter), Eastern Great Egret, Intermediate Egret, Little Egret,
Chinese Egret (migrant), Indo-pacific Brown Booby (winter), Great Cormorant, Japanese Cormorant (migrant, winter), Lesser Kestrel (winter),
Common Kestrel (migrant, winter), Amur Falcon (migrant), Merlin (winter), Northern Hobby (migrant), Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey,
Siberian Honey-buzzard (migrant), Black Kite, White-tailed Eagle (winter), Steller's Sea-Eagle (winter), Eastern Marsh-Harrier,
Hen Harrier (migrant, winter), Pied Harrier (migrant), Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (migrant, winter), Goshawk (migrant, winter),
Grey-faced Buzzard (migrant), Japanese Buzzard (winter), Siberian Rough-legged Hawk (winter), Upland Buzzard (winter),
Brown-cheeked Rail (migrant), White-breasted Waterken (migrant), Ruddy-breasted Crake, Watercock (migrant), Eurasian Moorhen,
Common Coot (migrant, winter), Arctic Sandhill Crane (winter), White-naped Crane (winter), Eastern Common Crane (winter),
Hooded Crane (winter), Black-winged Stilt (migrant, winter), Pied Stilt/White-headed Stilt (migrant), Northern Lapwing (migrant, winter),
Grey-headed Lapwing (migrant), Pacific Golden-Plover (migrant), Grey Plover, Western Little Ringed Plover, Kentish Plover,
Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni) (migrant, winter), Greater Sand Plover (migrant), Pheasant-tailed Jacana (migrant), Common Greater Painted-snipe (migrant),
Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Red-collard Dove (migrant), Lessor Cuckoo (migrant), Ural Owl (S.u.fuscescens) (winter),
Northern Long-eared Owl (winter), Short-eared Owl (winter), Pacific Swift (kanoi) (migrant), House Swift (migrant), Common Kingfisher,
Eurasian Hoopoe (migrant), Japanese Wryneck (migrant), Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker (D.k.kizuki) (winter), Bull-headed Shrike, Long-tailed Shrike (Taiwan) (winter),
Northern Shrike (mollis) (winter), Kamchatka Magpie (migrant, winter), Daurian Jackdaw (winter), Eastern Rook (winter), South Asian Carrion Crow,
Japanese Jungle Crow, Russet Sparrow (migrant), Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Green-headed Wagtail (migrant, winter),
Eastern Yellow Wagtail (migrant, winter), Grey Wagtail (migrant, winter), Black-backed Wagtail, Amur Wagtail (migrant),
East Siberian Wagtail (migrant), Japanese Wagtail (migrant), Richard's Pipit (migrant, winter), Blyth's Pipit (migrant, winter),
Meadow Pipit (migrant), Olive-backed Pipit (winter), Pechora Pipit (Manzbier's) (migrant), Red-throated Pipit (winter), Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian) (winter),
Water Pipit (migrant), Brambling (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch, Eurasian Siskin (winter), Long-tailed Rosefinch (winter),
Japanese Hawfinch (winter), Japanese Grosbeak (migrant), Meadow Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting (winter), Little Bunting (winter),
Rustic Bunting (winter), Yellow-headed Bunting (winter), Yellow Bunting (migrant), Masked Bunting (winter), Grey Bunting (winter),
Western Pallas's Bunting (winter), Reed Bunting (winter), Savanna Sparrow (migrant)

L9-5. Kuma River (Kumamoto)

- Birdwatching at the tidal flat, sand banks and reed fields at the river mouth, and reclaimed land.
- One day trip
- Best season: September to May
Here we have chance to see
Common Shelduck (winter), Gadwall (winter), Falcated Duck (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter), Mallard (winter),
Eastern Spot-billed Duck (winter), Northern Pintail (winter), Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter), Tufted Duck (winter), Common Goldeneye (winter),
Red-breasted Merganser (winter), Great Crested Grebe (winter), Black-necked Grebe (winter), Black-faced Spoonbill (winter),
Eastern Cattle Egret (migrant), Grey Heron, Eastern Great Egret, Intermediate Egret (migrant), Little Egret, Great Cormorant (winter),
Common Kestrel (winter), Eastern Peregrine Falcon (winter), Osprey, Black Kite, Northern Lapwing (winter), Pacific Golden-Plover (migrant),
Grey Plover (migrant, winter), Kentish Plover (migrant, winter), Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni) (migrant), Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit (migrant),
Whimbrel (migrant), Eastern Eurasian Curlew (migrant), Far Eastern Curlew (migrant), Central Asian Common Redshank (migrant),
Marsh Sandpiper (migrant), Common Greenshank (migrant, winter), Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant), Ruddy Turnstone (migrant),
Great Knot (migrant), Sandering (migrant), Red-necked Stint (migrant), Siberian Dunlin (migrant, winter), Spoon-billed Sandpiper (migrant),
Ruff (migrant), Black-tailed Gull (winter), Vega Gull (winter), Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter), Saunder's Gull (winter),
Rock Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Common Kingfisher, Bull-headed Shrike, Eastern Rook (winter), South Asian Carrion Crow,
Japanese Jungle Crow, White-cheeked Starling, Dusky Thrush (winter), Red-bellied Rock Thrush, Eurasian Tree Sparrow,
Black-backed Wagtail (winter), Meadow Bunting (Siberian Meadow Bunting)

L9-6. Izumi (Kagoshima)

- Watching more than 15,000 cranes wintering at the paddyl fields.
- One or two days trip
- Best season: November to Feburuary
Here we have chance to see
Copper Pheasant (Ijima's), Common Shelduck (winter), Mandarin Duck (winter), Gadwall (winter), Falcated Duck (winter),
Eurasian Wigeon (winter), Mallard (winter), Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler (winter), Northern Pintail (winter),
Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter), Tufted Duck (winter), Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe (winter), Black-necked Grebe (winter), Common Kestrel (winter), Merlin (winter), Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Black Kite, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter),
Goshawk (winter), Ruddy-breasted Crake, Eurasian Moorhen, Demoiselle Crane (winter), Siberian Crane (winter),
Arctic Sandhill Crane (winter), White-naped Crane (winter), Eastern Common Crane (winter), Hooded Crane (winter),
Hybrid; Hooded Crane & Eastern Common Crane (winter), Northern Lapwing (winter), Pacific Golden-Plover (migrant),
Grey Plover (migrant), Western Little Ringed Plover, Kentish Plover (migrant, winter), Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni) (migrant),
Common Greater Painted-snipe, Common Snipe (winter), Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit (migrant), Whimbrel (migrant),
Eastern Eurasian Curlew (migrant), Far Eastern Curlew (migrant), Central Asian Common Redshank (migrant),
Marsh Sandpiper (migrant), Common Greenshank (migrant), Green Sandpiper (winter), Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant),
Common Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone (migrant), Great Knot (migrant), Sandering (migrant), Red-necked Stint (migrant),
Siberian Dunlin (migrant, winter), Ruff (migrant), Black-tailed Gull (winter), Vega Gull (winter), Saunder's Gull (migrant),
Rock Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Common Kingfisher, Crested Kingfisher,
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker (D.k.kizuki), Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Jay (winter), Daurian Jackdaw (winter), Eastern Rook (winter),
South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Japanese Tit, Long-tailed Tit (A.c.kiusiuensis) (winter), Japanese Skylark,
Zitting Cisticola, Japanese Bush Warbler, Chestnut-cheeked Starling (migrant), White-shouldered Starling, Red-billed Starling (winter),
White-cheeked Starling, Siberian Common Starling (winter), Pale Thrush (winter), Brown-headed Thrush (migrant),
Dusky Thrush (winter), Daurian Redstart (winter), Russet Sparrow (winter), Green-headed Wagtail (migrant),
Black-backed Wagtail (winter), Japanese Wagtail, Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian) (winter), Brambling (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch,
Japanese Grosbeak, Meadow Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting (winter), Yellow-headed Bunting (winter), Masked Bunting (winter),
Grey Bunting (winter), Reed Bunting (winter)



Longer Tours in Tokara & Amami Islands

L10-1. Taira Island (Tokara Islands, Kagoshima)

- Birdwatching at the remote island at the border line between the Palearctic ecozone and the Indomalaya / Oriental ecozone.
- Four to six days trip. * There is a risk that the boat will be cancelled due to bad weather conditions, so we must secure the schedule considering such risk.
- Best season: April to May, September to November
- Past trip report: 2018 May 01-06
Here we have chance to see
Japanese Quail, Mandarin Duck, Gadwall, Eurasian Wigeon, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Garganey, Pochard, Streaked Shearwater,
Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Yellow Bittern, Schrenck's Bittern, Striated Heron (amurensis), Japanese Night-Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron,
Chinese Pond-Heron, Eastern Cattle Egret, Grey Heron, Eastern Great Egret, Eurasian Great Egret, Intermediate Egret, Little Egret, Pacific Reef Heron/Pacific Reef-Egret,
Chinese Egret, Red-footed Booby, Indo-pacific Brown Booby, Japanese Cormorant, Common Kestrel, Northern Hobby, Eastern Peregrine Falcon,
Osprey, Black Kite, Chinese Goshawk, Japanese Sparrowhawk, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Grey-faced Buzzard, Japanese Buzzard,
White-breasted Waterhen, Baillon's Crake, Eurasian Moorhen, Hooded Crane, Black-winged Stilt, Pacific Golden-Plover, Grey Plover,
Western Little Ringed Plover, Kentish Plover, Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni), Greater Sand Plover, European Woodcock, Latham's Snipe, Pintail Snipe,
Swinhoe's Snipe, Common Snipe, Little Curlew, Whimbrel, Spotted Redshank, Common Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper,
Grey-tailed Tattler, Terek Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone, Sandering, Red-necked Stint< Long-toed Stint, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper,
Oriental Pratincole, Vega Gull, Slaty-backed Gull, Common Tern, Little Tern, White-winged Tern, Pomarine Jaeger/Pomarine Skua, Parasitic Skua, Long-tailed Skua,
Rock Pigeon, Japanese Wood-Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Oriental Turtle-Dove, Red-collard Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon,
Whistling Green-Pigeon, Chestnut-winged Cuckoo, Large Hawk-Cuckoo, Eastern Common Cuckoo, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Lessor Cuckoo, Koel,
Lesser Coucal, Daito Scops owl, Elegant Scops-Owl, Northern Boobook, Northern Long-eared Owl, Grey Nightjar, Northern White-throated Needletail,
Silver-backed Needletail, Pacific Swift (kanoi), House Swift, Oriental Dollarbird/Dollarbird, Ruddy Kingfisher, Common Kingfisher, Eurasian Eurasian Hoopoe,
Fairy Pitta, Ashy Minivet, Bull-headed Shrike, Brown Shrike (L.c.lucionensis), Black-naped Oriole, Black Drongo (cathoecus), Ashy Drongo, Hair-crested Drongo (brevirostris),
Japanese Paradise-Flycatcher, Rook, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Bohemian Waxwing, Japanese Waxwing, Japanese Tit,
Varied Tit, Kamchatka Sand Martin, Barn Swallow (gutturalis), Barn Swallow, Small House-Swallow, Eastern House-Martin, Asian House Martin,
Red-rumped Swallow, Mongolian Short-toed Lark/Syke's Short-toed Lark, Japanese Skylark, Zitting Cisticola, Light-vented Bulbul, Brown-eared Bulbul,
Brown-eared Bulbul, Asian Stubtail, Daito Bush-Warbler, Manchurian Bush-Warbler, Japanese Bush Warbler, Middendorff's Grasshopper-Warbler,
Pleske's Grasshopper-Warbler, Sakhalin grasshopper warbler, Oriental Reed-Warbler, Common Dusky Warbler, Radde's Warbler, Yellow-browed Warbler,
Arctic Warbler, Kamchatka Leaf Warbler, Arctic Warbler, Pale-legged Leaf-Warbler, Sakhalin Leaf-Warbler, Eastern Crowned-Warbler,
Ijima's Leaf-Warbler, Honshu White-eye, Japanese White-eye (Z.j.stejnegeri), Japanese White-eye (Z.j.loochooensis), Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus),
Wood Nuthatch, Purple-backed Starling, Chestnut-cheeked Starling, White-shouldered Starling, Red-billed Starling, White-cheeked Starling,
Siberian Thrush, White's thrush, Grey-backed Thrush, Japanese Thrush, Chinese Blackbird, Eye-browed Thrush, Pale Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush,
Izu Thrush, Naumann's Thrush, Dusky Thrush, Japanese Robin, Ryukyu Robin (L.k.komadori), Greater Kamchatkan Rubythroat, Siberian Blue Robin,
Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin, Rufous-tailed Bush Robin, South-eastern Black Redstart, Daurian Redstart, Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat, Isabelline Wheatear,
Red-bellied Rockthrush, Indian Blue Rock-Thrush, Grey-streaked Flycatcher, Dark-sided Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Ferruginous Flycatcher,
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher (F.n. narcissina), Narcissus Flycatcher (Ficedula owstoni), Mugimaki Flycatcher,
Taiga Flycatcher, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Russet Sparrow, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Green-headed Wagtail,
Grey-headed Wagtail, Manchurian Yellow Wagtail, Kamchatka Wagtail, Northern Citrine Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Amur Wagtail,
Baikal Wagtail, East Siberian Wagtail, Richard's pipit, Indian Tree Pipit, Northern Olive-backed Pipit, Pechora Pipit (Manzbier's), Red-throated Pipit,
Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian), Water Pipit, Brambling, Grey-capped Greenfinch, Eurasian Siskin, Common Rosefinch, Japanese Hawfinch,
Chinese Grosbeak/Yellow-billed Grosbeak, Japanese Grosbeak, Grey-necked Bunting, Tristram's Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting, Little Bunting,
Yellow-browed Bunting, Rustic Bunting, Yellow-headed Bunting, Yellow-breasted Bunting, Chestnut Bunting, Black-headed Bunting, Masked Bunting,
Western Black-faced Bunting, Grey Bunting, Reed Bunting

L10-2. Amami-Oshima (Amami Islands, Kagoshima)

- Watching of the endemic and migrating birds at the seashore, paddy fields, farm fields and toropical forests in the island.
- More than two days trip
- Best season: all year around
- Past trip report: 2015 April 28-30
Here we have chance to see
Little Grebe, Grey Heron, Eastern Cattle Egret, Eurasian Great Egret, Pacific Reef Heron/Pacific Reef-Egret, Black-crowned Night Heron, Intermediate Egret,
Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, Grey-faced Buzzard, Barred Buttonquail, Greater Sand Plover, Kentish Plover,
Pacific Golden-Plover, Common Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, Great Knot, Grey-tailed Tattler, Ruddy Turnstone, Terek Sandpiper,
Wood Sandpiper, Whimbrel, Siberian Dunlin, Black-winged Stilt, Amami Woodcock, White-breasted Waterhen, Japanese Wood-Pigeon,
Oriental Turtle-Dove, Whistling Green-Pigeon, Elegant Scops-Owl, Common Kingfisher, Ruddy Kingfisher,
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker (D.k.amamii), Owston's White-backed Woodpecker, Barn Swallow (gutturalis), Small House-Swallow,
Ryukyu Minivet, Ryukyu Robin (L.k.komadori), Brown-eared Bulbul (M.a.ogawae), Brown-eared Bulbul (M.a.amaurotis),
Red-bellied Rockthrush, Amami Thrush, Black Paradise Flycatcher (T.a.illex), Great Tit (P.m.amamiensis), Varied Tit (P.v.amamii),
Japanese White-eye (Z.j.loochooensis), Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Chestnut-cheeked Starling, Jungle Crow (C.m.connectens), Lidth's Jay



Longer Tours in Okinawa Islands & Sakishima Islands

L11-1. Okinawa Island (Okinawa)

- Watching the endemic and migrating birds at the seashore, paddy fields, farm fields and toropical forests in the island.
- More than three days trip
- Best season: all year around
- Past trip report: 2015 June 05-07
Here we have chance to see
Common Shelduck (winter), Gadwall (winter), Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler (winter), Garganey (migrant, winter),
Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter), Pochard (winter), Greater Scaup (American) (winter), Little Grebe, Eurasian Spoonbill (winter),
Black-faced Spoonbill (winter), Cinnamon Bittern, Black Bittern (winter), Black-crowned Night Heron, Chinese Pond-Heron (migrant, winter),
Eastern Cattle Egret (migrant, winter), Grey Heron (winter), Eastern Purple Heron (migrant, winter), Eastern Great Egret (winter),
Intermediate Egret (migrant, winter), Little Egret (winter), Pacific Reef Heron/Pacific Reef-Egret, Lesser Frigatebird (migrant), Great Cormorant (winter),
Japanese Cormorant (winter), Common Kestrel (winter), Osprey (winter), Chinese Sparrowhawk (migrant), Japanese Lessor Sparrowhawk,
Grey-faced Buzzard (migrant, winter), Okinawa Rail, White-breasted Waterken, Ruddy-breasted Crake (P.f.phaeopyga), Eurasian Moorhen,
Common Coot (winter), Barred Buttonquail, Black-winged Stilt (winter), Pied Avocet (migrant, winter), Pacific Golden-Plover (migrant, winter),
Grey Plover (winter), Western Little Ringed Plover (winter), Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni) (migrant, winter), Greater Sand Plover (migrant, winter),
Common Greater Painted-snipe, European Woodcock (migrant, winter), Amami Woodcock, Common Snipe (migrant, winter),
Eastern Black-tailed Godwit (migrant, winter), Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit (migrant, winter), Whimbrel (migrant, winter),
Eastern Eurasian Curlew (migrant, winter), Spotted Redshank (migrant, winter), Central Asian Common Redshank (migrant, winter),
Marsh Sandpiper (migrant, winter), Common Greenshank (migrant, winter), Green Sandpiper (migrant, winter), Wood Sandpiper (migrant, winter),
Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant, winter), Terek Sandpiper (migrant), Great Knot (migrant), Sandering (migrant, winter),
Red-necked Stint (migrant, winter), Long-toed Stint (migrant, winter), Pectoral Sandpiper (migrant), Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (migrant),
Siberian Dunlin (migrant, winter), Eastern Broad-billed Sandpiper (migrant, winter), Ruff (migrant, winter), Black-tailed Gull (winter),
Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter), Caspian Tern (migrant, winter), Indo-pacific Roseate Tern (summer), Black-naped Tern (summer),
Little Tern (summer), Whiskered Tern (migrant), Rock Pigeon, Japanese Wood-Pigeon, Oriental Turtle-Dove (S.o.stimpsoni), Taiwan Green-Pigeon,
Japanese Scops-Owl (pryeri) (O.s.pryeri), Elegant Scops-Owl, Ryu Kyu Boobook, Northern Long-eared Owl (migrant), Ruddy Kingfisher (H.c.bangsi) (summer),
Common Kingfisher, Eurasian Hoopoe (migrant), Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker (D.k.nigrescens), Okinawa Woodpecker, Ryukyu Minivet,
Brown Shrike (L.c.lucionensis) (winter), Black Paradise Flycatcher (T.a.illex), Jungle Crow (C.m.connectens), Great Tit (P.m.okinawae),
Varied Tit (P.v.amamii), Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (migrant, winter), Pacific Swallow, Zitting Cisticola, Light-vented Bulbul/aiwan Bulbul (formosae),
Brown-eared Bulbul (M.a.amaurotis) (migrant, winter), Brown-eared Bulbul (M.a. pryeri), Japanese Bush Warbler (C.d.cantans) (winter),
Japanese Bush-Warbler (C.d.sakhalinensis) (winter), Daito Bush-Warbler (winter), Japanese Bush-Warbler (C.d.riukiuensis) (winter),
Korean Bush-Warbler (migrant, winter), Yellow-browed Warbler (winter), Chestnut-flanked White-eye (migrant),
Japanese White-eye (Z.j.insularis) (migrant), Japanese White-eye (Z.j.loochooensis), Red-billed Starling (winter), White-cheeked Starling (winter),
Siberian Common Starling (migrant, winter), White's Thrush (winter), Pale Thrush (winter), Brown-headed Thrush (winter),
Naumann's Thrush (migrant), Dusky Thrush (winter), Ryukyu Robin (L.k.namiyei), Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin (winter), Daurian Redstart (winter),
Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat (migrant, winter), Red-bellied Rock Thrush, Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant, winter),
Narcissus Flycatcher (T.naumanni) (migrant), Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Scaly-breasted Munia, Green-headed Wagtail (migrant, winter),
Grey Wagtail (winter), Black-backed Wagtail (winter), Richard's Pipit (migrant, winter), Olive-backed Pipit (winter), Red-throated Pipit (winter),
Brambling (winter)

L11-2. Miyako Island (Okinawa Islands, Okinawa)

- Birdwatching at the seashore, paddy fields, farm fields and toropical forests in the island.
- More than three days trip
- Best season: October to June
- Past trip report: 2017 June 21-23
Here we have chance to see
Common Shelduck (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter), Mallard (winter), Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler (winter),
Northern Pintail (winter), Garganey (migrant), Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter), Pochard (winter), Tufted Duck (winter), Little Grebe,
Eurasian Spoonbill (migrant), Black-faced Spoonbill (winter), Cinnamon Bittern (I.cinnamomeus), Striated Heron (amurensis) (winter),
Black-crowned Night Heron, Chinese Pond-Heron (winter), Eastern Cattle Egret (winter), Grey Heron (winter), Eastern Purple Heron,
Eastern Great Egret (winter), Intermediate Egret (winter), Little Egret (winter), Pacific Reef Heron/Pacific Reef-Egret, Chinese Egret (migrant),
Lesser Frigatebird (migrant), Great Cormorant (winter), Common Kestrel (winter), Eastern Peregrine Falcon (migrant),
Osprey (winter), Siberian Honey-buzzard (migrant), Black Kite (migrant), Chinese Sparrowhawk (migrant),
Japanese Lessor Sparrowhawk (A.g.iwasakii), Grey-faced Buzzard (migrant, winter), Japanese Buzzard (migrant), White-breasted Waterken,
Ruddy-breasted Crake (P.f.phaeopyga), Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot (winter), Barred Buttonquail, Black-winged Stilt (winter),
Pied Avocet (winter), Northern Lapwing (winter), Pacific Golden-Plover (winter), Grey Plover (winter), Eastern Common Ringed Plover (winter),
Western Little Ringed Plover (migrant), Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni) (winter), Greater Sand Plover (winter), Common Greater Painted-snipe,
European Woodcock (winter), Latham's Snipe (migrant), Pin-tailed Snipe (migrant), Swinhoe's Snipe (migrant), Common Snipe (winter),
Asian Dowitcher (migrant), Eastern Black-tailed Godwit (migrant), Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit (winter), Whimbrel (winter),
Eastern Eurasian Curlew (winter), Far Eastern Curlew (winter), Spotted Redshank (winter), Central Asian Common Redshank (winter),
Marsh Sandpiper (winter), Green Sandpiper (winter), Wood Sandpiper (winter), Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant), Terek Sandpiper (migrant),
Common Sandpiper (winter), Ruddy Turnstone (winter), Great Knot (migrant), Red Knot (rogersi) (migrant), Sandering (winter),
Western Sandpiper (winter), Red-necked Stint (winter), Little Stint (winter), Temminck's Stint (winter), Long-toed Stint (winter),
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (migrant), Curlew Sandpiper (migrant), Siberian Dunlin (migrant), Spoon-billed Sandpiper (migrant),
Eastern Broad-billed Sandpiper (migrant), Ruff (winter), Oriental Pratincole (summer), Black-tailed Gull (winter),
Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter), Saunder's Gull (winter), Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake (migrant), Caspian Tern (migrant),
Greater Crested Tern (summer), Indo-pacific Roseate Tern (summer), Black-naped Tern (summer), Little Tern (summer),
Gull-billed Tern (migrant), Whiskered Tern (summer), White-winged Tern (winter), Emerald Dove, Ryukyu Green-Pigeon, Elegant Scops-Owl,
Ryu Kyu Boobook (summer), Common Kingfisher, Eurasian Hoopoe (migrant), Ashy Minivet (migrant), Bull-headed Shrike,
Black Paradise Flycatcher (T.a.illex) (summer), Jungle Crow (migrant), Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (migrant), Pacific Swallow,
Zitting Cisticola, Brown-eared Bulbul (M.a.pryeri), Japanese Bush-Warbler (C.d.sakhalinensis) (winter),
Japanese Bush-Warbler (C.d.riukiuensis) (winter), Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler (migrant), Japanese White-eye (Z.j.loochooensis) (winter),
Chestnut-cheeked Starling (migrant), White-shouldered Starling (migrant), Red-billed Starling (migrant), White-cheeked Starling,
Siberian Common Starling (winter), White's Thrush (winter), Pale Thrush (winter), Dusky Thrush (winter), Daurian Redstart (winter),
Red-bellied Rock Thrush, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Green-headed Wagtail (winter), Grey Wagtail (winter), Black-backed Wagtail (winter),
Richard's Pipit (winter), Blyth's Pipit (migrant), Olive-backed Pipit (migrant), Red-throated Pipit (winter), Eurasian Siskin (winter),
Chinese Grosbeak/Yellow-billed Grosbeak (migrant), Yellow-browed Bunting (migrant)

L11-3. Ishigaki Island (Sakishima Islands, Okinawa)

- Birdwatching at the seashore, paddy fields, farm fields, mountain and toropical forests in the island.
- More than three days trip
- Best season: all year around
- Past trip report: 2018 March 20-22, 2017 May 22-25
Here we have chance to see
Common Pheasant (Korean), Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Little Grebe, Cinnamon Bittern (I.cinnamomeus), Striated Heron (amurensis),
Malayan Night Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Eastern Cattle Egret, Grey Heron, Eastern Purple Heron, Eastern Great Egret,
Intermediate Egret, Little Egret, Pacific Reef Heron/Pacific Reef-Egret, Chinese Egret, Great Cormorant, Common Kestrel, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey,
Indonesian Kite, Black Kite, Ryu Kyu Serpent-eagle, Japanese Lesser Sparrowhawk, Swinhoe's Rail, Slaty-legged Crake (sepiaria),
White-breasted Waterhen, Baillon's Crake, Ruddy-breasted Crake (P.f.phaeopyga), Watercock, Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot,
Barred Buttonquail, Kentish Plover, Pintail Snipe, Wood Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone, Oriental Pratincole,
Indo-pacific Roseate Tern, Black-naped Tern, Common Tern, Common Tern, Rock Pigeon, Black Wood Pigeon (C.j.stejnegeri),
Oriental Turtle-Dove (S.o.stimpsoni), Red-collard Dove, Emerald Dove, Whistling Green-Pigeon (T.riukiuensis),
Japanese Scops-Owl (pryeri) (O.s.pryeri), Elegant Scops-Owl (O.e.elegans), Ryu Kyu Boobook (N.j.totogo), Grey Nightjar,
Ruddy Kingfisher (H.c.bangsi), Common Kingfisher, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker (D.k.orii),
Ryukyu Minivet, Brown Shrike (L.c.lucionensis), Black Paradise Flycatcher (T.atrocaudata illex), Jungle Crow (C.m.osai),
Great Tit (P.c.nigriloris), Iriomote Tit (P.olivacea), Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (H.r.gutturalis), Barn Swallow (H.r.saturata),
Small House-Swallow (H.t.javanica), Asian House Martin, Red-rumped Swallow, Zitting Cisticola, Light-vented Bulbul (P.s.orii),
Brown-eared Bulbul (M,a.stejnegeri), Japanese Bush Warbler (C.d.cantans), Japanese White-eye (Z.j.loochooensis), Common Myna,
White-shouldered Starling, Red-billed Starling, Siberian Common Starling, Red-bellied Rockthrush,
Narcissus Flycatcher (F.owstoni), Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Scaly-breasted Munia, Black-backed Wagtail (M. lugens),
Amur Wagtail (M.leucopsis)

L11-4. Yonaguni Island (Sakishima Islands, Okinawa)

- Birdwatching at the seashore, paddy fields, farm fields, mountains and toropical forests in the island.
- More than three days trip
- Best season: September to May
- Past trip report: 2014 April 18-21
Here we have chance to see
Great Cormorant, Grey Heron, Chinese Pond-Heron, Eastern Cattle Egret, Pacific Reef Heron/Pacific Reef-Egret, Black-crowned Night Heron,
Little Egret, Intermediate Egret, Eastern Great Egret, Chinese Egret, Eastern Purple Heron, Eastern Spot-billed Duck,
Common Teal, Northern Pintail, Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula), Garganey, Northern Shoveler, Eurasian Wigeon, Mallard,
Goshawk, Grey-faced Buzzard, Japanese Buzzard, Upland Buzzard, Osprey, Japanese Lessor Sparrowhawk, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk,
Common Kestrel, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Barred Buttonquail, Slaty-legged Crake (sepiaria), White-breasted Waterken, Eurasian Moorhen,
Eastern Baillon's Crake, Oriental Plover, Greater Sand Plover, Western Little Ringed Plover, Eastern Common Ringed Plover,
Kentish Plover, Pacific Golden-Plover, Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni), Grey Plover, Northern Lapwing, Common Greenshank,
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Marsh Sandpiper, Eastern Redshank, Curlew Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Terek Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper,
Green Sandpiper, Whimbrel, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Red-necked Stint, Little Stint, Temminck's Stint,
Eastern Black-tailed Godwit, Ruddy Turnstone, Siberian Dunlin, Long-toed Stint, Swinhoe's Snipe, Pintail Snipe, Black-winged Stilt,
Red-necked Phalarope, Oriental Pratincole, Siberian Black-headed Gull, Little Tern, Emerald Dove, Japanese Wood Pigeon (C.j.stejnegeri),
Whistling Green-Pigeon, Oriental Turtle-Dove (S.o.stimpsoni), Himalayan Cuckoo, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Ryu Kyu Boobook,
Elegant Scops-Owl (O.e.interpositus), House Swift, Pacific Swift (kanoi), Common Kingfisher, Ruddy Kingfisher, Eurasian Hoopoe,
Mongolian Short-toed Lark/Syke's Short-toed Lark, Asian House Martin, Striated Swallow, Red-rumped Swallow, Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (H.r.gutturalis),
Barn Swallow (H.rustica), Kamchatka Sand Martin, Small House-Swallow, Grey Wagtail, East Siberian Wagtail,
Black-backed Wagtail (M.lugens), Amur Wagtail, Baikal Wagtail, East Siberian Wagtail, Kamchatka Wagtail,
Richard's Pipit, Indian Tree Pipit, Red-throated Pipit, Water Pipit, Ryukyu Minivet, Light-vented Bulbul, Brown Shrike,
Southern Ryukyu Robin, Daurian Redstart, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin, Brown-eared Bulbul (M.a.nagamichii),
Narcissus Flycatcher (F.owstoni), Black Paradise Flycatcher (T.a.illex), Japanese White-eye (Z.jloochooensis),
Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Amur Stonechat/Stejneger's Stonechat/Siberian Stonechat, Siberian Rubythroat, Red-bellied Rockthrush, Indian Blue Rock-Thrush,
Dusky Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Pale Thrush, Yellow-browed Warbler, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Grey-streaked Flycatcher,
Dark-sided Flycatcher, Zitting Cisticola, Manchurian Bush-Warbler, Japanese Bush Warbler (C.d.riukiuensis), Common Dusky Warbler,
Japanese White-eye (Z.j.loochooensis), White-shouldered Starling, Red-billed Starling, Chestnut-cheeked Starling,
White-cheeked Starling, Brambling, Eurasian Siskin, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Little Bunting, Yellow-headed Bunting,
Western Black-faced Bunting, Yellow Bunting, Chestnut Bunting, Lapland Bunting



***** Examples of Itinerary and Estimation *****
* The examples shown here are for reference only.
* The actual itinerary and its cost estimate will be provided for each inquiry.

Example-1 Tokyo area (Akigase Park & Kasai-rinkai Park) 1 guest, 1 day

Day	Time	Location	Activity
Day-1	07:00	Hotel in Tokyo	Pick up by car
	08:00	Akigase Park & Lake Sai	Bird watching
	12:00		Drive to Kasai-Rinkai Park
	13:00	Kasai-Rinkai Park	Bird watching
	16:00	Kasai-Rinkai Park	Return to hotel
	17:30	Hotel in Tokyo

1	Highway	\ 5,920
2	Petrol	\ 2,550
3	Parking	\ 1,500
4	Guide service for 1 person, 1 day	\ 18,000
5	Lunch & Dinner	* not covered
6	Insurance	* not covered
	Total	\ 27,970

Example-2 Osaka area (Nanko, Osaka Castle Park & Mt. Kongo) 2 guests, 2 days

Day	Time	Location	Activity
Day-1	09:15	Trade Center Mae station	Meet at station
	09:30	Osaka Nanko Bird Sanctuary	Bird watching
	12:46		Train to "Morinomiya" station
	13:13	Morinomiya station	Walk to "Osaka Catsle Park"
	13:30	Osaka Catsle Park	Bird watching
	17:45	Morinomiya station	Dismiss at the station
Day-2	07:30	Kawachi-nagano station	Meet at station
	07:55		Bus to "Kongosan Ropeway mae"
	08:33	Kongosan Ropeway mae	Walk to "Chihaya" ropeway station
	09:30	Chihaya Station (Kongo Ropeway)	Ropeway to Mt. Kongo
	09:36	Mt. Kongo	Bird watching
	15:30	Kongosan Ropeway station	Ropeway to Chihaya station
	15:44	"Kongosan Ropeway mae" bus stop	Bus to "Kawachi-nagano" station
	16:24	"Kawachi-nagano" station	Dismiss at the station

1	Train for guide	\ 32,170
2	Bus for guide	\ 1,040
3	Ropeway for guide	\ 1,420
4	Accomodation for guide (1 night)	\ 10,000
5	Guide service for 2 person, 2 days	\ 48,000
6	Train for guests (2 persons)	\ 3,800
7	Bus for guests	\ 2,080
8	Ropeway for guests	\ 2,840
9	Accomodation for guests	* not covered
10	Lunch & Dinner	* not covered
11	Insurance	* not covered
	Total	\101,350

Example-3 Kyushu area (Izumi & Higashi-yoka) 2 guests, 4 days

Day	Time	Location	Activity
Day-1	14:45	Haneda Airport Terminal-2	Meet at Departure Gate
	15:15	Haneda Airport	Flight to Kagoshima
	18:02	Kagoshima Airport
	18:15		Bus to Izumi Station
	19:38	Izumi Station	Taxi to Guest House in Izumi
	20:00	Guest House in Izumi	Check-in
Day-2	08:00	around Izumi Crane Center	Bird watching
Day-3	08:00		Hotel check-out
	08:30	around Izumi Crane Center	Bird watching
	15:29		Bus to Izumi Station
	16:02	Izumi Station	Train to Shin-torisu Station
	17:23	Shin-torisu Station	Train to Saga-torisu
	18:00	Hotel in Saga	Hotel Check-in
Day-4	08:00		Hotel check-out
	08:00		walk to rent-a-car shop near Saga Station
	08:30		Drive to Higashi-yoka Tidal Flat
	09:00	Higashi-yoka Tidal Flat	Bird watching
	14:00		Drive to rent-a-car shop near Saga Airport
	15:50	Saga Airport	Flight to Haneda Airport
	17:30	Haneda Airport	Train to Tokyo Station
	18:55	Tokyo Station	Dismiss at the station

1	Train for guide	\ 9,490
2	Air for guide	\ 36,390
3	Bus for guide	\ 1,650
4	Taxi	\ 3,000
5	Rent-a-car (2 days)	\ 12,000
6	Petrol	\ 6,800
7	Accomodation for guide (3 nights)	\ 25,000
8	Guide service for 2 persons, 3 days	\ 72,000
9	Train for guests (2 persons)	\ 18,980
10	Air (2 persons, ANA Experience JAPAN Fare)	\ 43,200
11	Bus for guests (2 persons)	\ 3,300
12	Accomodation for guests (3 nights, 2 persons)	\ 35,000
13	Lunch & Dinner	* not covered
14	Insurance	* not covered
	Total	\266,810

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