Bird Watching in Japan & Asia: Whooper Swan

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2021-12-16

Birdwatching in Miyagi (December 8-10, 2021) 1

Totally 63 species were seen during the 3 days trip. Seven geese including two subspecies of Bean Goose were recorded. Lesser White-fronted, Cackling, Canada and Snow Goose were observed very well.

1. Green Pheasant 1 (male) 2 a. Tundra Bean Goose 2 b. Taiga Bean Goose 3. White-fronted Goose 4. Lesser White-fronted Goose 5. Snow Goose 11 6. Cackling Goose 7. Lesser Canada Goose 1 8. Tundra Swan 9. Whooper Swan 10. Gadwall 11. Eastern Spot-billed Duck 12. Eurasian Wigeon 13. Mallard 14. Northern Pintail 15. Common Teal 16. Common Pochard 17. Tufted Duck 18. Greater Scaup 19. Smew 20. Red-breasted Merganser 21. Common Merganser 22. Little Grebe 23. Black-necked Grebe 24. Great Crested Grebe 25. Oriental Turtle Dove 26. Temminck's Cormorant 27. Great Cormorant 28. Pelagic Cormorant 29. Grey Heron 30. Great Egret 31. Little Egret 32. Common Moorhen 33. Eurasian Coot 34. Vegae Gull 35. Slaty-backed Gull 36. Black-tailed Gull 37. Black-eared Kite 38. White-tailed Sea-Eagle 1 (male) 39. Eastern Marsh Harrier 1 40. Japanese Buzzard 42. Common Kingfisher 43. Eurasian Jay 44. Azure-winged Magpie 45. Rook 46. Carrion Crow 47. Large-billed Crow 48. Japanese Bush Warbler 49. Japanese Tit 50. Eurasian Skylark 51. Eurasian Wren 52. White-cheeked Starling 53. Dusky Thrush 54. Blue Rock Thrush 55. White Wagtail 56. Japanese Pied Wagtail 57. Eurasian Tree Sparrow 58. Buff-bellied Pipit 59. Oriental Greenfinch 60. Long-tailed Rosefinch 61. Meadow Bunting 62. Rustic Bunting 63. Common Reed Bunting 64. Black-faced Bunting

Whooper and Tundra Swan

White-tailed Sea-Eagle

Lesser White-fronted Goose

Green Pheasant (male)

2012-01-09

Birdwatching in Inzai City, Motono Village and Abiko City

It is the first record on Siberian White Crane in southeastern Honshu. Although I had seen a few times before, I visited there to see my friend. Weather was fine and calm. We immediately found the crane after arriving the feeding point. There were about 50 people who were photographing the crane. We joined with them and photographed it for 30 minutes. Then, we visited several locations for watching open country birds. Another highlight was Japanese Reed Buntings which are not so easy to see in winter.

Recorded species
1. Little Grebe 2. Great Cormorant 3. Whooper Swan 4. "Tundra Swan" 2 5. Bewick's Swan 6. Bean Goose 7. Mallard 8. Spot-billed Duck 9. Teal 10. Pintail 11. Little Egret 12. Great Egret 13. Grey Heron 14. Siberian White Crane 1 (2nd year imm.) 15. Coot 16. Moorhen 17. Common Snipe 18. Black-eared Kite 19. Common Buzzard 20. Common Kestrel 1 21. Peregrine Falcon 1 (imm.) 22. Green Pheasant 1 (female) 23. Oriental Turtle Dove 24. Skylark 25. White Wagtail 26. Buff-bellied Pipit 27. Brown-eared Bulbul 28. Bull-headed Shrike 29. Daurian Redstart 30. Dusky Thrush 31. Japanese Bush Warbler 32. Zitting Cisticola 33. Meadow Bunting 34. Rustic Bunting 35. Chestnut-eared Bunting 36. Japanese Reed Bunting 37. Common Reed Bunting 38. Black-faced Bunting 39. Oriental Greenfinch 40. Long-tailed Rosefinch (call) 41. Tree Sparrow 42. Grey Starling 43. Carrion Crow 44. Large-billed Crow