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WINGS Birding Tours – Bird List

Japan in Winter

Cumulative Checklist

with Susan Myers as leader

Column A = Number of tours out of five on which the species has been recorded    
Column B = Number of days this species was seen on the 2013 tour    
Column C = maximum daily count for this species on the 2013 tour    

A B C
1 Mute Swan 1 2 Cygnus olor
5 Whooper Swan 3 15 Cygnus cygnus
2 Tundra Swan (Bewick’s Swan) Cygnus columbianus
2 Taiga Bean Goose Anser fabalis
1 Tundra Bean Goose Anser rossicus
1 Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
2 Black Brant (Brent Goose) Branta bernicla
5 Eurasian Shelduck 1 10 Tadorna tadorna
5 Mandarin Duck 1 20 Aix galericulata
5 Eurasian Wigeon 6 100+ Anas penelope
4 Falcated Duck Anas falcata
2 Gadwall Anas strepera
2 Baikal Teal Anas formosa
5 Green-winged Teal (Common Teal) 4 100 Anas crecca
5 Mallard 7 100+ Anas platyrhynchos
5 Chinese Spot-billed Duck 7 100 Anas poecilorhyncha
5 Northern Pintail 3 20 Anas acuta
5 Northern Shoveler 3 10 Anas clypeata
3 Common Pochard 1 50 Aythya ferina
5 Tufted Duck 2 10 Aythya fuligula
5 Greater Scaup 3 100+ Aythya marila
5 Harlequin Duck 3 100+ Histrionicus histrionicus
5 Oldsquaw (Long-tailed Duck) 3 100+ Clangula hyemalis
1 Bufflehead 1 1 Bucephala albeola
5 Common Goldeneye 3 50 Bucephala clangula
5 Black Scoter (Common Scoter) 3 100+ Melanitta nigra
5 White-winged Scoter (Velvet Scoter) 2 100+ Melanitta fusca
3 Smew 1 3 Mergus albellus
5 Common Merganser (Goosander) 3 100+ Mergus merganser
5 Red-breasted Merganser 2 20 Mergus serrator
1 Hazel Grouse Tetrastes bonasia
1 Copper Pheasant Syrmaticus soemmerringii
4 Green Pheasant Phasianus versicolor
2 Red-throated Loon (Red-throated Diver) Gavia stellata
2 Pacific Loon (Pacific Loon) 2 3 Gavia pacifica
5 Little Grebe 4 3 Tachybaptus ruficollis
4 Horned Grebe (Slavonian Grebe) Podiceps auritus
1 Red-necked Grebe 1 2 Podiceps grisegena
1 Eared Grebe 1 1 Podiceps nigricollis
5 Great Crested Grebe 4 7 Podiceps cristatus
5 Great Cormorant 5 50 Phalacrocorax carbo
5 Temminck’s Cormorant (Japanese Cormorant) 1 50 Phalacrocorax capillatus
5 Pelagic Cormorant 3 100+ Phalacrocorax pelagicus
2 Red-faced Cormorant 1 1 Phalacrocorax urile
1 Yellow Bittern 1 1 Ixobrynchus sinensis
5 Grey Heron 4 20 Ardea cinerea
5 Little Egret 3 20 Egretta garzetta
3 Pacific Reef Egret 1 30 Egretta sacra
5 Great Egret 4 10 Egretta alba
3 Black-faced Spoonbill Platalea minor
1 Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia
4 Osprey 3 6 Pandion haliaetus
5 Black Kite 11 100+ Milvus migrans
5 White-tailed Eagle 3 50 Haliaeetus albicilla
5 Steller’s Sea Eagle 3 80 Haliaeetus pelagicus
4 Eastern Marsh Harrier Circus spilonotus
2 Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis
1 Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus
1 Japanese Sparrowhawk Accipiter gularis
5 Common Buzzard 4 4 Buteo buteo
1 Upland Buzzard Buteo hemilasius
3 Rough-legged Buzzard 1 2 Buteo lagopus
3 Hodgson’s Hawk Eagle Spizaetus nipalensis
4 Eurasian Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
1 Merlin Falco columbarius
5 Peregrine Falcon 2 2 Falco peregrinus
4 Common Gallinule (Moorhen) Gallinula chloropus
5 Eurasian Coot 4 12 Fulica atra
1 Siberian Crane 1 1 Grus
4 Common Crane 1 1 Grus grus
5 Hooded Crane 1 1000s Grus monacha
4 Sandhill Crane 1 2 Grus canadensis
5 White-naped Crane 1 1000s Grus vipio
5 Japanese Crane 1 70 Grus japonensis
4 Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius
1 Long-billed Plover Charadrius placidus
4 Snowy Plover (Kentish Plover) Charadrius alexandrinus
3 Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva
3 Grey-headed Lapwing Vanellus cinereus
3 Northern Lapwing 1 20 Vanellus vanellus
4 Dunlin 2 50 Calidris alba
1 Eurasian Curlew 1 1 Numenius arquata
5 Common Snipe 1 20 Gallinago gallinago
1 Solitary Snipe Gallinago solitaria
3 Common Greenshank Scolopax rusticola
4 Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
1 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
1 Pallas's Gull Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus
1 Saunders’s Gull Larus saundersi
4 Common Black-headed Gull 5 100+ Larus ridibundus
5 Black-tailed Gull 3 50+ Larus crassirostris
5 Mew Gull (Common Gull) 3 20+ Larus canus
3 Herring Gull 5 50+ Larus argentatus
5 Slaty-backed Gull 5 30+ Larus schistisagus
5 Glaucous-winged Gull 3 10 Larus glaucescens
5 Glaucous Gull 3 10 Larus hyperboreus
2 Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla
4 Common Murre (Guillemot) 2 30 Uria aalge
1 Thick-billed Murre (Brunnich’s Guillemot) Uria lomvia
2 Pigeon Guillemot Cepphus columba
5 Spectacled Guillemot 2 15 Cepphus carbo
1 Long-billed Murrelet Brachyramphus perdix
5 Ancient Murrelet 1 20 Synthliboramphus antiquus
2 Japanese Murrelet 1 4 Synthliboramphus wumizusume
1 Least Auklet Aethia pusilla
2 Rhinoceros Auklet Cerorhinca monocerata
2 Horned Puffin 1 1 Fratercula corniculata
1 Tufted Puffin Lunda cirrhata
5 Oriental Turtle Dove 4 30 Streptopelia orientalis
2 Japanese Wood Pigeon 1 3 Columba janthina
1 White-bellied Green Pigeon 1 8 Treron sieboldii
5 Blakiston’s Fish Owl 1 1 Ketupa blakistoni
1 Ural Owl Strix uralensis
1 Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
5 Common Kingfisher 1 1 Alcedo atthis
3 Crested Kingfisher 1 2 Ceryle lugubris
5 Japanese Green Woodpecker 3 1 Picus awokera
1 Black Woodpecker Dryocopus martius
5 Great Spotted Woodpecker 4 2 Dendrocopos major
4 White-backed Woodpecker 1 1 Dendrocopos leucotos
5 Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker 5 6 Dendrocopos kizuki
4 Ryukyu Minivet Pericrocotus tegimae
5 Bull-headed Shrike 3 2 Lanius bucephalus
1 Brown Shrike 1 1 Lanius cristatus
5 Eurasian Jay 1 5 Garrulus glandarius
3 Azure-winged Magpie Cyanopica cyana
1 Eurasian Magpie Pica pica
1 Daurian Jackdaw Corvus dauuricus
5 Rook 1 100+ Corvus frugilegus
5 Carrion Crow 13 100+ Corvus corone
5 Large-billed Crow 13 100+ Corvus macrorhynchos
2 Northern Raven 1 1 Corvus corax
5 Eurasian Skylark 1 60 Picoides tridactylus
3 Asian Martin 1 20 Delichon dasypus
1 Barn Swallow 2 50 Hirundo rustica
5 Marsh Tit 4 3 Parus palustris
5 Willow Tit 2 1 Parus montanus
5 Varied Tit 5 8 Parus varius
5 Coal Tit 1 2 Parus ater
5 Great Tit 6 10 Parus major
3 Chinese Penduline Tit Remiz consobrinus
5 Long-tailed Tit 3 20 Aegithalos caudatus
5 Eurasian Nuthatch 5 20 Sitta europaea
2 Eurasian Treecreeper Certhia familiaris
4 Winter Wren 3 1 Troglodytes troglodytes
5 Brown Dipper 1 2 Cinclus pallasii
5 Brown-eared Bulbul 10 20 Hypsipetes amaurotis
4 Goldcrest 3 2 Regulus regulus
5 Japanese Bush Warbler 3 1 Cettia diphone
2 Zititng Cisticola 1 1 Cisticola juncidis
5 Japanese White-eye 4 30 Zosterops japonica
4 Red-flanked Bluetail 3 4 Tarsiger cyanurus
5 Daurian Redstart 6 20 Phoenicurus auroreus
4 Blue Rock Thrush 2 1 Monticola (solitarius) philippensis
1 Scaly Thrush (White’s Thrush) Zoothera dauma
3 Brown-headed Thrush Turdus chrysolaus
5 Pale Thrush 7 12 Turdus pallidus
5 Dusky Thrush 9 20 Turdus naumanni
5 White-cheeked Starling (Grey Starling) 7 100+ Sturnus cineraceus
2 Japanese Accentor Prunella rubida
1 Alpine Accentor Prunella collaris
3 Olive-backed Pipit 1 20 Alauda arvensis
5 American Pipit (Buff-bellied Pipit) 2 50 Anthus rubescens
5 Grey Wagtail 3 1 Motacilla cinerea
4 White Wagtail Motacilla alba leucopsis
4 White (Black-backed) Wagtail 7 20 Motacilla alba lugens
5 Japanese Wagtail 1 1 Motacilla grandis
1 Japanese Waxwing Bombycilla japonica
1 Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla garrulus
1 Lapland Longspur (Lapland Bunting) Calcarius lapponicus
2 Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis
1 Gray Bunting Emberiza variabilis
5 Black-faced Bunting 4 4 Emberiza spodocephala
1 Pine Bunting Emberiza leucocephalos
5 Meadow Bunting 3 12 Emberiza cioides
3 Chestnut-eared Bunting Emberiza fucata
2 Yellow-throated Bunting 1 3 Emberiza elegans
2 Rustic Bunting Emberiza rustica
1 Pallas’s Reed Bunting Emberiza pallasi
3 Common Reed Bunting 1 6 Emberiza schoeniclus
1 Japanese Reed Bunting Emberiza yessoensis
5 Brambling 1 50 Fringilla montifringilla
5 Grey-capped Greenfinch 4 100+ Carduelis sinica
2 Asian Rosy Finch Leucosticte arctoa
2 Pallas’s Rosefinch 2 4 Carpodacus roseus
3 Long-tailed Rosefinch 1 1 Uragus sibiricus
2 Eurasian Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula
3 Japanese Grosbeak Eophona personata
4 Hawfinch 4 2 Coccothraustes coccothraustes
4 Russet Sparrow Passer rutilans
5 Eurasian Tree Sparrow 12 100+ Passer montanus