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


Syrmaticus soemmerringii 
.

Noritomo Kawaji

Anseriformes


Anas zonorhyncha 
.
Tetsuo Shimada
Atsuki Azuma
Toru Kumagai
Columbiformes


Streptopelia orientalis 
.

Kayoko Kameda



Treron sieboldii 
.

Komatan

Suliformes


Phalacrocorax capillatus

Yutaka Watanuki

Pelecaniformes


Ixobrychus sinensis

Yuji Sawara



Gorsachius goisagi

Kazuto Kawakami



Nipponia nippon

Hisashi Nagata



Platalea minor

Mutsuyuki Ueta

Gruiformes


Grus vipio

Mutsuyuki Ueta



Grus monacha

Yasuhiro Yamada

Cuculiformes
Hierococcyx hyperythrus

Keita Tanaka

Apodiformes
Apus nipalensis

Masanobu Hotta

Charadriformes
Vanellus cinereus

Masao Takahashi

Charadrius placidus

Hiroshi Uchida

Scolopax mira

Hisahiro Torikai

Gallinago hardwickii

Tatsuya Ura



Numenius madagascariensis

Mutsuyuki Ueta



Cepphus carbo

Yoshihiro Fukuda



Long-billed Murrelet

Brachyramphus perdix

Yoshihiro Fukuda



Japanese Murrelet

Synthliboramphus
wumizusume


Yutaka Yamamoto

Accipitriformes


Haliaeetus pelagicus

Hajime Nakagawa



Spilornis cheela

Kiyotaka SANO



Circus spilonotus

Toshiaki Hirano



Accipiter gularis

Toshiaki Hirano



Butastur indicus

Atsuki Azuma



Nisaetus nipalensis

Toru Yamazaki

Strigiformes


Otus elegans

Kana Akatani



Ketupa blakistoni

Yuko Hayashi

Piciformes


Dendrocopos kizuki

Ken Ishida

Passeriformes
Corvidae


Lanius bucephalus

Masaoki Takagi

Corvidae


Lidth's Jay

Garrulus lidthi

Ken Ishida



Azure-winged Magpie

Cyanopica cyana

Shunji Harada



Corvus macrorhynchos

Hajime Matsubara

Paridae


Poecile varius

Noriyuki Yamaguchi

Pycnonotidae


Hypsypetes amaurotis

Yasuhiro Yamaguchi

Cettidae


Cettia diphone

Shoji Hamao



Urosphena squameiceps

Noritomo Kawaji

Phylloscopidae


Arctic Warbler
Kamchatka Leaf Warbler
Japanese Leaf Warbler


Phylloscopus borealis
P. examinandus
P. xanthodryas


Takema Saitoh

Zosteropidae


Apalopteron familiare

Kazuto Kawakami

Locustellidae


Locustella pleskei

Hisashi Nagata



Locustella pryeri

Masao Takahashi

Sturnidae


White-cheeked Starling

Spodiopsar cineraceus

Yasuhiro Yamaguchi



Agropsar philippensis

Shigeto Koike

Muscicapidae


Turdus cardis

Toru Ishizuka



Turdus celaenops

Yutaka Yamamoto

Luscinia komadori

Shin-ichi Seki

Motacillidae


Motacilla grandis

Toshiaki Hirano


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