Birds Around Ichinoya, Tsukuba

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Attempting to identify and list the birds around Ichinoya-Pond, University of Tsukuba, Japan...

PASSERINES (Perching birds)

• Green Pheasant (Male) May 2010: The National Bird of Japan. Quite stunning when you see it up close.

• Green Pheasant (Female) May 2010

• Durian Redstart (Phoenicurus auroreus)  

 

•  Black-backed wagtail or Kamchatka/Japanese Pied Wagtail, with its distinct black eye-stripe. (pic source: Wikipedia Commons) 

•  Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)  - spotted near the central library, TsukubaU. (pic source: Wikipedia Commons)

Others - 

• Ashy Minivet
• Japanese White Eye (Zosterops japonicus) 19 Jan 2011 - Stunning, sprightly little fellow - especially when it is lit-up by the evening sun!
• Eurasian Siskins
• Grey Starlings
• Eurasian Tree Sparrow - Always in flocks of 20-30 birds...you don`t realize they are on a tree until they suddenly decide to scram!
• Brambling 
• Stonechat
• Pied Kingfisher
• Dusky Thrush (Turdus eunomus)
• Crowned Willow Warbler
• Green Pheasant 
• Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker (Dendrocopos kizuki nippon)  
• White Wagtail  
• Forest Wagtail 
• White Wagtail 
• Bull Headed Shrike
• Winter Tern
• Grey Starlings / White-cheeked Starling (Sturnus cineraceus)
• Common Raven (Crovus corax)

NON-PASSERINES

•  Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata)

• Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) May 2010

• Mallard, or Wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos)
• Japanese Cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus)

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LINKS

• List of Passerine (perching) Japanese Birds - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_birds:_passerines
• List of Non-Passerines - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-passerine_Japanese_birds
• Photo gallery of Japanese Birds - http://www.big.or.jp/~shimpset/
• Birds of Japan - http://www.tsuru-bird.net/japan/