Bird Research English Guide to Birds of Japan

Bird Research English Guide to Birds of Japan:
featuring the rare and endemic birds of Japan and East Asia

This English edition is the translated extracts from “Ecological Guide to Birds” published in Bird Research News Letters (since 2004).
Scientific and English names are after “Check-list of Japanese Birds 7th revised edition” (The Ornithological Society of Japan 2012).

Translation: Reiko Kurosawa and Takashi Kurosawa
Editor: Mutsuyuki Ueta
Produced by the Japan Bird Research Association
All rights reserved.

■Contents

	Species		Author

Galliformes
	Copper Pheasant	Syrmaticus soemmerringii　 .	Noritomo Kawaji
Anseriformes
	Eastern Spot-billed Duck	Anas zonorhyncha　 .	Tetsuo Shimada Atsuki Azuma Toru Kumagai
Columbiformes
	Oriental Turtle Dove	Streptopelia orientalis　 .	Kayoko Kameda
	Japanese Green Pigeon	Treron sieboldii　 .	Komatan
Suliformes
	Japanese Cormorant	Phalacrocorax capillatus	Yutaka Watanuki
Pelecaniformes
	Yellow Bittern	Ixobrychus sinensis	Yuji Sawara
	Japanese Night Heron	Gorsachius goisagi	Kazuto Kawakami
	Crested Ibis	Nipponia nippon	Hisashi Nagata
	Black-faced Spoonbill	Platalea minor	Mutsuyuki Ueta
Gruiformes
	White-naped Crane	Grus vipio	Mutsuyuki Ueta
	Hooded Crane	Grus monacha	Yasuhiro Yamada
Cuculiformes
	Rufous Hawk-Cuckoo	Hierococcyx hyperythrus	Keita Tanaka
Apodiformes
	House Swift	Apus nipalensis	Masanobu Hotta
Charadriformes
	Grey-Headed Lapwing	Vanellus cinereus	Masao Takahashi
	Long-billed Plover	Charadrius placidus	Hiroshi Uchida
	Amami Woodcock	Scolopax mira	Hisahiro Torikai
	Latham’s Snipe	Gallinago hardwickii	Tatsuya Ura
	Eastern Curlew	Numenius madagascariensis	Mutsuyuki Ueta
	Spectacled Guillemot	Cepphus carbo	Yoshihiro Fukuda
	Long-billed Murrelet	Brachyramphus perdix	Yoshihiro Fukuda
	Japanese Murrelet	Synthliboramphus wumizusume	Yutaka Yamamoto
Accipitriformes
	Steller’s Sea Eagle	Haliaeetus pelagicus	Hajime Nakagawa
	Crested Serpent Eagle	Spilornis cheela	Kiyotaka SANO
	Eastern Marsh Harrier	Circus spilonotus	Toshiaki Hirano
	Japanese Sparrowhawk	Accipiter gularis	Toshiaki Hirano
	Grey-faced Buzzard	Butastur indicus	Atsuki Azuma
	Mountain Hawk-Eagle	Nisaetus nipalensis	Toru Yamazaki
Strigiformes
	Ryukyu Scops Owl	Otus elegans	Kana Akatani
	Blakiston’s Fish Owl	Ketupa blakistoni	Yuko Hayashi
Piciformes
	Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker	Dendrocopos kizuki	Ken Ishida

Passeriformes
Corvidae
	Bull-headed Shrike	Lanius bucephalus	Masaoki Takagi
Corvidae

	Lidth's Jay	Garrulus lidthi	Ken Ishida
	Azure-winged Magpie	Cyanopica cyana	Shunji Harada
	Large-billed Crow	Corvus macrorhynchos	Hajime Matsubara
Paridae
	Varied Tit	Poecile varius	Noriyuki Yamaguchi
Pycnonotidae
	Brown-eared Bulbul	Hypsypetes amaurotis	Yasuhiro Yamaguchi
Cettidae
	Japanese Bush Warbler	Cettia diphone	Shoji Hamao
	Asian Stubtail	Urosphena squameiceps	Noritomo Kawaji
Phylloscopidae
	Arctic Warbler Kamchatka Leaf Warbler Japanese Leaf Warbler	Phylloscopus borealis P. examinandus P. xanthodryas	Takema Saitoh
Zosteropidae
	Bonin White-eye	Apalopteron familiare	Kazuto Kawakami
Locustellidae
	Styan's Grasshopper Warbler	Locustella pleskei	Hisashi Nagata
	Japanese Marsh Warbler	Locustella pryeri	Masao Takahashi
Sturnidae
	White-cheeked Starling	Spodiopsar cineraceus	Yasuhiro Yamaguchi
	Chestnut-cheeked Starling	Agropsar philippensis	Shigeto Koike
Muscicapidae
	Japanese (Grey) Thrush	Turdus cardis	Toru Ishizuka
	Izu Thrush	Turdus celaenops	Yutaka Yamamoto
	Ryukyu Robin	Luscinia komadori	Shin-ichi Seki
Motacillidae
	Japanese Wagtail	Motacilla grandis	Toshiaki Hirano

Bird Research English Guide to Birds of Japan: featuring the rare and endemic birds of Japan and East Asia

Bird Research English Guide to Birds of Japan:
featuring the rare and endemic birds of Japan and East Asia