eBird Field Checklist
Japan
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311 species (+48 other taxa) -
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Waterfowl
Swan Goose
Greater White-fronted Goose
Tundra Bean-Goose
Mute Swan
Black Swan
Whooper Swan
Muscovy Duck
Mandarin Duck
Garganey
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
Falcated Duck
Eurasian Wigeon
Eastern Spot-billed Duck
Mallard
Mallard x Eastern Spot-billed Duck (hybrid)
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Common Pochard
Tufted Duck
Greater Scaup
Harlequin Duck
Stejneger's Scoter
Black Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Smew
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
duck sp.
Grouse, Quail, and Allies
Hazel Grouse
Rock Ptarmigan
Copper Pheasant
Ring-necked Pheasant
Green Pheasant
Ring-necked/Green Pheasant
Indian Peafowl
Chinese Bamboo-Partridge
Grebes
Little Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Great Crested Grebe
Pigeons and Doves
Rock Pigeon
Black Wood-Pigeon
Oriental Turtle-Dove
Red Collared-Dove
Asian Emerald Dove
White-bellied Green-Pigeon
Whistling Green-Pigeon
Cuckoos
Northern Hawk-Cuckoo
Lesser Cuckoo
Indian Cuckoo
Common Cuckoo
Oriental Cuckoo
Cuculus sp.
cuckoo sp. (Cuculidae sp.)
Nightjars
Gray Nightjar
Swifts
White-throated Needletail
Pacific Swift
House Swift
Apus/Tachymarptis sp.
Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
Brown-cheeked Rail
Okinawa Rail
Eurasian Moorhen
Eurasian Coot
White-breasted Waterhen
Ruddy-breasted Crake
Cranes
Red-crowned Crane
Shorebirds
Black-winged Stilt
Eurasian Oystercatcher
Black-bellied Plover
Pacific Golden-Plover
Little Ringed Plover
Long-billed Plover
Gray-headed Lapwing
Siberian Sand-Plover
Kentish Plover
small plover sp.
Greater Painted-Snipe
Pheasant-tailed Jacana
Whimbrel
Far Eastern Curlew
Eurasian Curlew
Far Eastern/Eurasian Curlew
Bar-tailed Godwit
Eurasian Woodcock
Amami Woodcock
Latham's Snipe
Red Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Red/Red-necked Phalarope
Terek Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper
Green Sandpiper
Gray-tailed Tattler
Marsh Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Common Redshank
Common Greenshank
Ruddy Turnstone
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Red-necked Stint
Dunlin
Oriental Pratincole
shorebird sp.
Skuas and Jaegers
Long-tailed Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Pomarine Jaeger
South Polar Skua
jaeger sp.
Alcids
Rhinoceros Auklet
Tufted Puffin
Horned Puffin
Crested Auklet
Spectacled Guillemot
Pigeon Guillemot
Thick-billed Murre
Common Murre
Ancient Murrelet
Japanese Murrelet
murrelet sp.
alcid sp.
Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
Black-legged Kittiwake
Black-headed Gull
Laughing Gull
Black-tailed Gull
Common Gull
Glaucous Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Slaty-backed Gull
Larus sp.
gull sp.
Brown Noddy
Sooty Tern
Little Tern
Gull-billed Tern
Whiskered Tern
White-winged Tern
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Common Tern
Black-naped Tern
tern sp.
Loons
Red-throated Loon
Arctic Loon
Pacific Loon
Arctic/Pacific Loon
loon sp.
Albatrosses
Laysan Albatross
Black-footed Albatross
Short-tailed Albatross
Storm-Petrels
Leach's Storm-Petrel
Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel
Matsudaira's Storm-Petrel
Tristram's Storm-Petrel
storm-petrel sp. (dark-rumped)
storm-petrel sp. (white-rumped)
storm-petrel sp.
Petrels, Shearwaters, and Diving-Petrels
Northern Fulmar
Bonin Petrel
Bulwer's Petrel
Streaked Shearwater
Flesh-footed Shearwater
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Short-tailed Shearwater
Sooty/Short-tailed Shearwater
Bannerman's Shearwater
shearwater sp.
Storks
Oriental Stork
Frigatebirds, Boobies, and Gannets
Red-footed Booby
Brown Booby
Cormorants and Anhingas
Red-faced Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Japanese Cormorant
Great/Japanese Cormorant
cormorant sp.
Pelicans
Great White Pelican
Herons, Ibis, and Allies
Great Bittern
Cinnamon Bittern
Yellow Bittern
Black-crowned Night Heron
Japanese Night Heron
Pacific Reef-Heron
Little Egret
Striated Heron
Eastern Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Medium Egret
Great/Medium Egret
Gray Heron
Purple Heron
heron sp.
white egret sp.
Crested Ibis
Eurasian Spoonbill
Black-faced Spoonbill
Vultures, Hawks, and Allies
Osprey
Oriental Honey-buzzard
Mountain Hawk-Eagle
Golden Eagle
Gray-faced Buzzard
Eastern Marsh Harrier
Japanese Sparrowhawk
Eurasian Sparrowhawk
Eurasian Goshawk
Accipiter sp.
Black Kite
White-tailed Eagle
Eastern Buzzard
hawk sp.
Owls
Japanese Scops-Owl
Ryukyu Scops-Owl
Oriental Scops-Owl
Blakiston's Fish-Owl
Ural Owl
Long-eared Owl
Northern Boobook
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Kingfishers
Common Kingfisher
Ruddy Kingfisher
Crested Kingfisher
Bee-eaters, Rollers, and Allies
Dollarbird
Woodpeckers
Eurasian Wryneck
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker
Okinawa Woodpecker
White-backed Woodpecker
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Japanese Woodpecker
Gray-headed Woodpecker
Black Woodpecker
woodpecker sp.
Falcons and Caracaras
Eurasian Kestrel
Eurasian Hobby
Peregrine Falcon
Parrots, Parakeets, and Allies
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Psittacula sp.
Old World Pittas
Fairy Pitta
Cuckooshrikes
Ryukyu Minivet
Ashy Minivet
Ryukyu/Ashy Minivet
Old World Orioles
Black-naped Oriole
Drongos
Black Drongo
Monarch Flycatchers
Black Paradise-Flycatcher
Shrikes
Bull-headed Shrike
Brown Shrike
shrike sp.
Jays, Magpies, Crows, and Ravens
Eurasian Jay
Lidth's Jay
Azure-winged Magpie
Oriental Magpie
Eurasian Nutcracker
Carrion Crow
Large-billed Crow
crow sp.
crow/raven sp.
Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice
Coal Tit
Varied Tit
Owston's Tit
Marsh Tit
Willow Tit
Marsh/Willow Tit
Japanese Tit
Larks
Eurasian Skylark
Cisticolas and Allies
Zitting Cisticola
Reed Warblers and Allies
Black-browed Reed Warbler
Oriental Reed Warbler
Acrocephalus sp.
Grassbirds and Allies
Sakhalin Grasshopper Warbler
Marsh Grassbird
Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler
Pleske's Grasshopper Warbler
Lanceolated Warbler
Martins and Swallows
Bank Swallow
Pacific Swallow
Barn Swallow
Asian House-Martin
Red-rumped Swallow
swallow sp.
Bulbuls
Brown-eared Bulbul
Light-vented Bulbul
Leaf Warblers
Eastern Crowned Warbler
Ijima's Leaf Warbler
Sakhalin Leaf Warbler
Japanese Leaf Warbler
Kamchatka Leaf Warbler
Arctic/Kamchatka Leaf Warbler
Japanese Leaf/Arctic/Kamchatka Leaf Warbler
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Phylloscopus sp.
Bush Warblers and Allies
Asian Stubtail
Japanese Bush Warbler
Long-tailed Tits and Bushtit
Long-tailed Tit
White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies
Bonin White-eye
Warbling White-eye
Laughingthrushes and Allies
Red-billed Leiothrix
Chinese Hwamei
White-browed Laughingthrush
Masked Laughingthrush
Kinglets
Goldcrest
Nuthatches
Eurasian Nuthatch
Treecreepers
Eurasian Treecreeper
Wrens
Eurasian Wren
Dippers
Brown Dipper
Starlings and Mynas
European Starling
Chestnut-cheeked Starling
White-cheeked Starling
Crested Myna
Thrushes
White's Thrush
Amami Thrush
Siberian Thrush
Japanese Thrush
Brown-headed Thrush
Izu Thrush
thrush sp.
Old World Flycatchers
Dark-sided Flycatcher
Asian Brown Flycatcher
Blue-and-white Flycatcher
Japanese Robin
Izu Robin
Ryukyu Robin
Okinawa Robin
Ryukyu/Okinawa Robin
Siberian Blue Robin
Siberian Rubythroat
Red-flanked Bluetail
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
Narcissus Flycatcher
Ryukyu Flycatcher
Daurian Redstart
Blue Rock-Thrush
Amur Stonechat
Estrildids
Scaly-breasted Munia
Chestnut Munia
Accentors
Alpine Accentor
Japanese Accentor
Old World Sparrows
Russet Sparrow
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
Wagtails and Pipits
Gray Wagtail
Eastern Yellow Wagtail
Japanese Wagtail
White Wagtail
wagtail sp.
Olive-backed Pipit
Finches, Euphonias, and Allies
Hawfinch
Japanese Grosbeak
Long-tailed Rosefinch
Pine Grosbeak
Eurasian Bullfinch
Oriental Greenfinch
Red Crossbill
Eurasian Siskin
Old World Buntings
Chestnut-eared Bunting
Meadow Bunting
Ochre-rumped Bunting
Reed Bunting
Yellow-breasted Bunting
Yellow Bunting
Masked Bunting
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Black-faced/Masked Bunting
Gray Bunting
Emberiza sp.
Others
passerine sp.
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