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Japan in Spring Cumulative Bird List Column A Japan in Spring Cumulative Bird List Column A: number of tours (out of 4) on which this species has been recorded Column B: number of days this species was recorded on the 2019 tour Column C: maximum daily count for this species on the 2019 tour Column D: H = Heard Only (I) = Introduced; NE = Near endemic A B C D 1 Mandarin Duck 1 1 Aix galericulata 1 Common Teal 1 1 Anas crecca 1 Euarasian Wigeon Anas penelope 4 Mallard 1 1 Anas platyrhynchos 4 Spot-billed Duck 4 30 Anas poecilorhyncha 3 Chinese Bamboo Partridge (I) 3 1 Bambusicola thoracica 2 Copper Pheasant Syrmaticus soemmerringii 2 Ring-necked Pheasant (I) 1 10 Phasianus colchicus 3 Green (Ring-necked) Pheasant 2 2 Phasianus (colchicus) versicolor 1 Indian Peafowl (I) 1 10 Pavo cristatus 1 Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis 2 Black-footed Albatross Diomedea nigripes 1 Laysan Albatross Diomedea immutabilis 3 Streaked Shearwater 1 1000 Calonectris leucomelas 1 Wedge-tailed Shearwater Puffinus pacificus 2 Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus 3 Short-tailed Shearwater 1 2 Puffinus tenuirostris 1 Wilson's Storm-Petrel Oceanites oceanicus 1 Tristram's Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma tristrami 3 Great Cormorant 3 12 Phalacrocorax carbo 1 Japanese Cormorant NE 2 2 Phalacrocorax capillatus 2 Pelagic Cormorant 1 1 Phalacrocorax pelagicus 1 Eurasian Spoonbill 1 1 Platalea leucorodia 1 Black-faced Spoonbill 1 1 Platalea minor 1 Yellow Bittern Ixobrychus sinensis 1 Schrenck's Bittern Ixobrychus eurhythmus 1 Cinnamon Bittern 1 2 Ixobrychus cinnamomeus 1 Malayan Night Heron 1 1 Gorsachius melanolophus 4 Black-crowned Night Heron 2 1 Nycticorax nycticorax ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WINGS ● 1643 N. Alvernon Way Ste. 109 ● Tucson ● AZ ● 85712 ● www.wingsbirds.com (866) 547 9868 Toll free US + Canada ● Tel (520) 320-9868 ● Fax (520) 320 9373 Japan In Spring Cumulative Bird List… 2 2 Striated Heron 1 1 Butorides striatus 4 Cattle Egret 2 4 Bubulcus ibis 1 Chinese Egret 1 4 Egretta eulophotes 3 Eastern Reef Egret 3 6 Egretta sacra 4 Little Egret 2 4 Egretta garzetta 4 Intermediate Egret 2 4 Egretta intermedia 4 Great Egret 6 10 Egretta alba 4 Grey Heron 3 40 Ardea cinerea 1 Purple Heron 1 6 Ardea purpurea 3 Osprey 2 1 Pandion haliaetus 4 Black Kite 3 6 Milvus migrans 1 Ryukyu Serpent Eagle 1 2 Spilornis perplexus 1 Eastern Marsh Harrier 1 1 Circus spilonotus 2 Japanese Sparrowhawk 1 1 Accipiter gularis 1 Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis 3 Eastern Buzzard 1 1 Buteo japonicus 1 Black-winged Kite 1 2 Elanus caeruleus 1 Eurasian Kestrel 1 1 Falco tinnunculus 1 Peregrine Falcon 2 1 Falco peregrinus 4 Okinawa Rail 3 10 Rallus okinawae 2 White-breasted Waterhen 2 20 Amaurornis phoenicurus 3 Eurasian Moorhen 1 10 Gallinula chloropus 2 Eurasian Coot 2 2 Fulica atra 2 Little Ringed Plover 1 4 Charadrius dubius 1 Kentish Plover 1 6 Charadrius alexandrinus 2 Lesser Sandplover 1 8 Charadrius mongolus 2 Greater Sandplover 1 1 Charadrius leschenaultii 1 Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva 2 Black-winged Stilt 1 2 Himantopus himantopus 1 Red Knot Calidris canutus 1 Red-necked Stint 1 2 Calidris ruficollis 1 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 1 4 Calidris acuminata 1 Latham's Snipe Gallinago hardwicki 3 Amami Woodcock 1 8 Scolopax mira 2 Bar-tailed Godwit 1 2 Limosa lapponica 4 Whimbrel 1 2 Numenius phaeopus 3 Common Greenshank 1 1 Tringa nebularia 2 Green Sandpiper 1 1 Tringa ochropus 3 Common Sandpiper 1 1 Actitis hypoleucos 4 Grey-tailed Tattler 3 4 Heteroscelus brevipes 2 Ruddy Turnstone 2 6 Arenaria interpres ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WINGS ● 1643 N. Alvernon Way Ste. 109 ● Tucson ● AZ ● 85712 ● www.wingsbirds.com (866) 547 9868 Toll free US + Canada ● Tel (520) 320-9868 ● Fax (520) 320 9373 Japan In Spring Cumulative Bird List… 3 1 Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum 4 Black-tailed Gull NE 2 20 Larus crassirostris 4 Black-naped Tern 1 20 Sterna sumatrana 2 Roseate Tern 2 3 Sterna dougalli 1 Common Tern 1 2 Sterna hirundo 4 Little Tern 2 1 Sterna albifrons 1 Whiskered Tern 2 2 Chlidonius hybrida 1 Great Crested Tern 1 10 Thalasseus bergii 4 Rock Dove 12 20 Columba livia 4 Japanese Woodpigeon NE 2 6 Columba janthina 4 Oriental Turtle Dove 9 20 Streptopelia orientalis 4 White-bellied Green Pigeon 1 H Treron sieboldii 4 Ryukyu Green Pigeon 3 3 Treron riukiuensis 1 Red Collared-Dove 1 1 Streptopelia tranquebarica 1 Asian Emerald Dove 1 1 Chalcophaps indica 3 Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus 3 Oriental Cuckoo Cuculus optatus 4 Lesser Cuckoo 2 1 Cuculus poliocephalus 1 Japanese Scops Owl 1 H Otus semitorques 4 Ryukyu Scops Owl NE 3 1 Otus elegans 3 Northern Boobook 1 1 Ninox japonicus 4 Pacific Swift 2 10 Apus pacificus 4 Ruddy Kingfisher 4 20 Halcyon coromanda 3 Common Kingfisher 1 1 Alcedo atthis 1 Crested Kingfisher Ceryle lugubris 4 Japanese Green Woodpecker 3 2 Picus awokera 4 Pryer's Woodpecker 2 2 Sapheopipo noguchi 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 H Dendrocopos major 4 White-backed Woodpecker 2 2 Dendrocopos leucotos 4 Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker NE 11 6 Dendrocopos kizuki 4 Ashy Minivet 3 2 Pericrocotus divaricatus 4 Ryukyu Minivet 4 20 Pericrocotus tegimae 4 Bull-headed Shrike 1 1 Lanius bucephalus 2 Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus 3 Japanese Paradise-Flycatcher 3 1 Terpsiphone atrocaudata 4 Eurasian Jay 1 3 Garrulus glandarius 4 Lidth's Jay 2 9 Garrulus lidthi 2 Azure-winged Magpie Cyanopica cyana 3 Eurasian Nutcracker Nucifraga caryocatactes 4 Carrion Crow 3 2 Corvus corone 4 Large-billed Crow 12 6 Corvus macrorhynchos ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WINGS ● 1643 N. Alvernon Way Ste. 109 ● Tucson ● AZ ● 85712 ● www.wingsbirds.com (866) 547 9868 Toll free US + Canada ● Tel (520) 320-9868 ● Fax (520) 320 9373 Japan In Spring Cumulative Bird List… 4 4 Eurasian Skylark 1 12 Alauda arvensis 4 Barn Swallow 11 20 Hirundo rustica 4 Pacific Swallow 3 6 Hirundo tahitica 2 Asian House Martin 1 20 Delichon dasypus 3 Willow Tit 2 6 Parus montanus 4 Varied Tit 3 4 Parus varius 4 Coal Tit 4 4 Parus ater 4 Great Tit 7 20 Parus major 3 Long-tailed Tit 1 6 Aegithalos caudatus 1 Eurasian Nuthatch 2 2 Sitta europaea 1 Common Treecreeper 1 2 Certhia familiaris 4 Eurasian (Winter) Wren 2 1 Troglodytes troglodytes 4 Brown Dipper 1 1 Cinclus pallasii 4 Light-vented Bulbul 3 4 Pycnonotus sinensis 4 Brown-eared Bulbul NE 12 30 Hypsipetes amaurotis 3 Goldcrest 1 6 Regulus regulus 4 Asian Stubtail 4 1 Urosphena squameiceps 4 Japanese Bush Warbler 9 4 Cettia diphone 2 Eastern Crowned Warbler 3 2 Phylloscopus coronatus 4 Iijima Leaf Warbler 2 10 Phylloscopus ijimae 3 Japanese Leaf-warbler 1 3 Phylloscopus xanthodryas 4 Oriental Reed-Warbler 2 10 Acrocephalus orientalis 3 Marsh Grassbird Locustella pryeri 1 Styan's Grasshopper Warbler 2 6 Locustella pleskei 4 Zitting Cisticola 5 12 Cisticola juncidis 4 Japanese White-eye 10 10 Zosterops japonicus 1 Red-billed Leiothrix 2 1 Leiothrix lutea 4 Blue-and-White Flycatcher 2 1 Cyanoptila cyanomelana 1 Dark-sided Flycatcher Muscicapa sibirica 4 Asian Brown Flycatcher 3 2 Muscicapa latirostris 4 Narcissus Flycatcher 3 4 Ficedula narcissina 3 Ryukyu Flycatcher 2 1 Ficedula owstoni 4 Japanese Robin NE 2 2 Erithacus akahige 4 Ryukyu Robin 5 6 Erithacus komadori 2 Siberian Blue Robin 1 1 Luscinia cyane 4 Red-flanked Bluetail 1 6 Tarsiger cyanurus 4 Blue Rock Thrush 7 20 Monticola solitarius 1 White's Thrush Zoothera dauma 3 Amami Thrush 1 1 Zoothera amami 4 Japanese Thrush 1 H Turdus cardis 1 Brown Thrush NE Turdus chrysolaus ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WINGS ● 1643 N. Alvernon Way Ste. 109 ● Tucson ● AZ ● 85712 ● www.wingsbirds.com (866) 547 9868 Toll free US + Canada ● Tel (520) 320-9868 ● Fax (520) 320 9373 Japan In Spring Cumulative Bird List… 5 4 Izu Islands Thrush 2 4 Turdus celaenops 2 Chestnut-cheeked Starling 1 4 Agropsar philippensis 4 White-cheeked Starling 4 10 Spodiopsar cineraceus 1 Common Myna 1 3 Acridotheres tristis 4 Japanese Accentor 1 2 Prunella rubida 1 Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni 4 Grey Wagtail 1 1 Motacilla cinerea 4 Black-backed (White) Wagtail 3 6 Motacilla alba lugens 3 Japanese Wagtail 1 2 Motacilla grandis 4 Black-faced Bunting 2 2 Emberiza spodocephala 2 Japanese Yellow Bunting 1 1 Emberiza sulphurata 4 Meadow Bunting 2 1 Emberiza cioides 2 Chestnut-eared Bunting 1 1 Emberiza fucata 1 Common Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus 2 Japanese Reed Bunting Emberiza yessoensis 4 Oriental Greenfinch 4 2 Carduelis sinica 1 Japanese Grosbeak Eophona personata 1 Eurasian Bullfinch 1 6 Pyrrhula pyrrhula 4 Eurasian Tree Sparrow 12 20 Passer montanus 1 Scaly-breasted Munia 1 8 Lonchura punctulata MAMMALS 4 Ryukyu Fruit Bat 1 1 Pteropus dasymallus 1 Japanese Macaque Macaca fuscata 2 Raccoon Dog 1 1 Nycteuretes procyonoides 2 Badger Meles meles 1 Pacific White-sided Dolphin Lagenorhynchus obliquidens 4 Sika Deer 1 1 Cervus nippon 1 Japanese Serow Capriconis crispus 2 Giant Flying Squirrel 1 1 Petaurista leucogenys 4 Japanese Squirrel 2 2 Sciurus lis 2 Ryukyu Mouse Mus caroli 4 Amami Black Hare 1 3 Pentalagus furnessi 1 Javan Mongoose Herpestes javanicus 1 Ryukyu Long-tailed Giant Rat 1 1 Diplothrix legata 1 Japanese Weasel 1 1 Mustella itatsi HERPS 1 Japanese Fire-bellied Newt 1 4 Cynops pyrrhogaster 1 Habu 1 1 Trimeresurus flavoviridis ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WINGS ● 1643 N. 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