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Birds recorded around BWWC since Nov.1988

42 families

number of species

215 species

Divers

1

Black-throated Loon

Grebes

5

Little Grabe, Black-necked Grebe, Horned Grebe, Red-necked Grebe, Great Crested Grabe

Boodys

1

Red-footed Boody

Cormorants

2

Common Cormorant,  Pelagic Cormorant

Herons

11

Great Bittern, Yellow Bittern, Black Night Heron, Striated Heron, Cattle Egret, Intermediate Egret, Great Egret, Little Egret, Pacific Reef Heron, Grey Heron, Purple Heron,

Ibises

1

Spoonbill

Geese and Ducks

33

Canada Goose, Brant Goose, Greylag Goose, White-fronted Goose, Been Goose, Snow Goose, Whooper Swan, Tundra Swan, Ruddy Shelduck, Common Shelduck, Mandarin Duck, Mallard, Spotbill Duck, Green-winged Teal, Baikal Teal, Falcated Teal, Gadwall, Eurasian Wigeon, American Wigeon, Pintail, Garganey, Shoveler, Red-crested Pochard, Pochard, Ferruginous Duck, Bear's Pochard, Tufted Duck, Greater Scaup, Velvet Scoter, Common Golden-eye, Smew, Red-brested Merganser,Goosander

Eagles

15

Osprey, Oriental Honey Buzzard, Black Kite, White-tailed Eagle, Stellers sea-Eagle, Japanese Sparrowhawk, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Northern Goshawk, Grey-faced Buzzard,Rough-Legged Buzzard, Buzzard, Mountain Hawk Eagle, Golden Eagle, Hen Harrier, Marsh Harrier

Falcons

4

Peregrine Falcon, Eurasian Hobby, Merlin, Kestrel

Pheasants

2

Japanese Quail, Common Pheasant

Cranes

1

White-naped Crane

Rails

5

Water Rail, Ruddy-breasted Crake, White-breasted Waterhen, Common Gallinule, Coot

Painted-snipes

1

Painted Snipe

Plovers

8

Little Ringed Plover, Long-billed Plover, Kentish Plover, Lesser Sand Plover, Pascific Gorden Plover,GreyPlover, Grey-headed Lapwing, Lapwing

Sand-pipers

23

Ruddy Turnstone, Red-neced Stint, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Dunlin, Red Kont, Great Knot, Spotted Red-shank, Marsh Sandpiper, Green-shank, Ruff, Green Sand-piper, Wood Sand-piper, Grey-taild Tattler, Common Sandpiper, Terek Sand-piper, Black-tailed Godwit, Bar-tailed Godwit, Far Eastern Curlew, Whimbrel, Eurasian Wodcock Common Snipe, Swinhoe's Snipe, Latham's Snipe, 

Stilts

1

Black-winged Stilt

Phalaropes

1

Red-necked Phalarope

Gulls

14

Black-headed Gull, Herring Gull, Slaty-backed Gull, Glaucous-winged Gull, Common Gull, Black-tailed Gull, Saunder's Gull, Black-legged Kittiwate, White-winged Tern, Whiskered Tern, Common Tern, Black-naped Tern, Aleutian Tern, Sooty Tern, Little Tern

Doves

2

Oriental Turtle Dove, White-bellied Pigeon

Cuckoos

1

Eurasian Cuckoo

Owls

4

Long-eared Owl, Short-eared Owl, Brown Hawk Owl, Ural Owl

Swifts

2

White-throated Needle tail, White-rumped Swift

King-fishers

1

Common King-fisher

Wood-pecker

4

Wryneck, Japanese Green Wood-pecker, Great Spotted Wood-pecker ,Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker

Larks

1

Skylark

Swallows

4

Sand Martin, Barn Swallow, Red-rumped swallow, House Martin

Wag-tails

5

Grey Wagtail, White Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Oliv-backed Pipit, Buff-bellied Pipit,

Minivet

1

Ashy Minivet

Bulbuls

1

Brown-eared Bulbul

Shrikes

1

Bull-headed Shrike

Wax-wings

2

Bohemian Waxwing, Japanese Wax-wing

Wrens
1
Winter-Wren

Thrushes

24

Japanese Robin, Siberian Rubythroat, Red-flanked Bluetail, Daurian Redstart, Common Stonechatt, Blue Rock-thrush, Scaly Thrush, Japanese Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Pale Thrush, Eyebrowed Thrush, Dusky Thrush, Japanese Bush Warbler, Middendorffs Grasshopper Warbler, Black-browed Reed Warbler, Oriental Reed Warbler, Arctic Warbler, Sakhalin Leaf Warbler, Eastern Crowned Warbler, Zitting Cisticola, Narcissus Flycather, Blue-and-white Flycather, Grey-streaked Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher

Long-tailed Tits

1

Long-tailed tit

Penduline-tits

1

Penduline Tit

True-tits

3

Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Great Tit

White-eyes

1

Japanese White-eye

Buntings

7

Meadow Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting, Rustic Bunting, Yellow-throated Bunting, Japanese Yellow Bunting, Black-faced Bunting, Reed Bunting

Finches

10

Brambling, Oriental Greenfinch, Eurasian Siskin, Rosy Finch, Crossbill, Long-tailed Rose Finch, Bullfinch, Yellow-bellied Grosbeak, Japanese Grosbeak, Hawfinch

Sparrows

2

Russet Sparrow, Tree Sparrow

Starlings

2

Chestnut-cheeked Starling, Grey Starling

Crows

5

Eurasian Jay, Daurian Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, Jungle Crow

||| Photographs by members of the Nature-watching Leaders Society in Shiga, and the Kohoku Wild Bird Society. |||


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