Tobishima Island

39.19574 , 139.55063

Japan

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• geographic/ biogeographic location
• habitat and vegetation
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Coordinates were set by Mathias Ritschard (Admin) : 39.1957/139.5506 (2020-12-27 21:46:38 )

Site name was set by Mathias Ritschard (Admin) as "Tobishima Island" (2020-12-27 21:46:38 )

Edited by Mathias Ritschard (Admin) on 2021-08-06 13:28:52
- Bird-watching at the remote island at the north of Japan Sea. - More than three days trip is recommended. * There is a risk that the boat will be cancelled due to bad weather conditions, so we must secure the schedule considering such risk. - Best season: May, October to November Here we have chance to see Japanese Quail, Mandarin Duck, Gadwall, Falcated Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Eurasian Teal/Common Teal, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Greater Scaup (American), Red-throated Loon/Red-throated Diver, Black-throated Loon/Black-throated Diver/Arctic Loon (Green-throated), Pacific Loon/Pacific Diver, Streaked Shearwater, Flesh-footed Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Short-tailed Shearwater, Little Grebe, Holboll's Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Japanese Night-Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Chinese Pond-Heron, Eastern Cattle Egret, Grey Heron, Eastern Purple Heron, Eurasian Great Egret, Eastern Great Egret, Intermediate Egret, Little Egret, Chinese Egret, Great Cormorant, Japanese Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant, Common Kestrel, Amur Falcon, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Siberian Honey-buzzard, Black Kite, Pied Harrier, Chinese Sparrowhawk, Japanese Sparrowhawk, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Grey-faced Buzzard, Japanese Buzzard, Brown-cheeked Rail, Ruddy-breasted Crake, Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot, Pacific Golden-Plover, Grey Plover, Long-billed Plover, Western Little Ringed Plover, Kentish Plover, Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni), European Woodcock, Jack Snipe, Solitary Snipe, Latham's Snipe, Pin-tailed Snipe, Swinhoe's Snipe, Common Snipe, Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit, Little Curlew, Whimbrel, Far Eastern Curlew, Spotted Redshank, Marsh Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Grey-tailed Tattler, Wandering Tattler, Common Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone, Black Turnstone, Red-necked Stint, Temminck's Stint, Long-toed Stint, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Siberian Dunlin, Red-necked Phalarope, Red Phalarope, Oriental Pratincole, Black-tailed Gull, Kamchatka Gull, Glaucous-winged Gull, ,br. Glaucous Gull, Vega Gull, Slaty-backed Gull, Siberian Gull, Siberian Black-headed Gull, Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake, Common Tern, Aleutian Tern, South Polar Skua, Pomarine Jaeger/Pomarine Skua, Parasitic Jaeger, Eastern Long-tailed Jaeger, Franz Joseph Dovekie, Thick-billed Murre/Brunnich's Guillemot/Thick-billed Murre (arra), North Pacific Murre, Pigeon Guillemot, Spectacled Guillemot, Ancient Murrelet, Japanese Murrelet, Parakeet Auklet, Least Auklet, Crested Auklet, Stock Pigeon, Japanese Wood-Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Chestnut-winged Cuckoo, Large Hawk-Cuckoo, Northern Hawk-Cuckoo, Indian Cuckoo, Eastern Common Cuckoo, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Lessor Cuckoo, Asian Koel, Japanese Scops-Owl, Oriental Scope-Owl, Eagle Owl, Ural Owl, Northern Boobook, Short-eared Owl, Grey Nightjar, Himalayan Swiftlet, Northern White-throated Needletail, Eastern Common Swift, Pacific Swift (kanoi), House Swift, Oriental Dollarbird/Dollarbird, Black-capped Kingfisher, Common Kingfisher, Eurasian Hoopoe, Japanese Wryneck, Rufous-bellied Woodpecker (subrufinus), Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker (D.m.hondoensis), Great Spotted Woodpecker (D.m.brevirostris), Japanese Woodpecker, Fairy pitta, White-breasted Woodswallow, Ashy Minivet, Tiger Shrike, Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Shrike, Brown Shrike, Brown Shrike, Western Red-backed Shrike, Isabelline Shrike, Long-tailed Shrike (Taiwan), Long-tailed Shrike (Taiwan), Black-naped Oriole, King drongo, Ashy Drongo, Black Paradise-Flycatcher, Japanese Jay, Daurian Jackdaw, Eastern Rook, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Bohemian Waxwing, Japanese Waxwing, Japanese Tit, Yellow-bellied Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Willow Tit, Kamchatka Sand Martin, Barn Swallow (gutturalis), Barn Swallow, Pacific Swallow, Eastern House Martin, Asian House Martin, Red-rumped Swallow, Long-tailed Tit, Mongolian Lark, Mongolian Short-toed Lark/Syke's Short-toed Lark, Asian Short-toed Lark, Japanese Skylark, Large Japanese Sky-Lark, Japanese Skylark (A.j.lonnbergi), Pallid Horned Lark, Asian Stubtail, Japanese Bush Warbler, Korean Bush-Warbler, Lanceolated Warbler, Pallas's Grasshopper-Warbler, Middendorff's Warbler, Sakhalin grasshopper warbler, Oriental Reed Warbler, Black-browed Reed Warbler, Paddyfield Warbler, Booted Warbler, Siberian Willow Warbler, Siberian Chiffchaff, Wood Warbler, Common Dusky Warbler, Tickell's Leaf-Warbler, Radde's Warbler, Pallas's Leaf Warbler, Yellow-browed Warbler, Arctic Warbler, Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler, Kamchatka Leaf Warbler, Pale-legged Leaf Warbler, Sakhalin Leaf Warbler, Two-barred Greenish Warbler, Eastern Crowned Warbler, Sulphur-breasted Warbler, Greater Whitethroat, Chestnut-flanked White-eye, Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest, Chinese Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Daurian Starling, Chestnut-cheeked Starling, Red-billed Starling, White-cheeked Starling, Siberian Common Starling, Siberian Thrush, Western Siberian Thrush, White's thrush, Western Grey-cheeked Thrush, Grey-backed Thrush, Japanese Thrush, Chinese Blackbird, Eyebrowed Thrush, Pale Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Black-throated Thrush, Red-throated Thrush, Naumann's Thrush, Dusky Thrush, Fieldfare, Redwing, White-Browed Shortwing, Red-spotted Bluethroat, West Siberian European Robin, Japanese Robin, Greater Kamchatkan Rubythroat, Siberian Blue Robin, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin, Rufous-tailed Robin, Daurian Redstart, South-eastern Black Redstart, Common Redstart, Stejneger's Stonechat, Grey Bushchat, Isabelline Wheatear, Northern Wheatear, Pied Wheatear, Desert Wheatear, Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush, Red-bellied Rock Thrush, White-throated Rock Thrush, Spotted Flycatcher, Grey-streaked Flycatcher, Dark-sided Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Yellow-rumped Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher, Chinese Flycatcher, Mugimaki Flycatcher, Taiga Flycatcher, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Zappey's Flycatcher, House Sparrow, Russet Sparrow, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Alpine Accentor, Western Siberian Accentor, Japanese Accentor, Forest Wagtail, Green-headed Wagtail, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Manchurian Yellow Wagtail, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Northern Citrine Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Amur Wagtail, East Siberian Wagtail, Baikal Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Richard's Pipit, Blyth's Pipit, Tree Pipit, Olive-backed Pipit, Northern Olive-backed Pipit, Pechora Pipit (Manzbier's), Red-throated Pipit, Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian), Common Chaffinch, Brambling, Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.minor), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba), Eurasian Siskin, Common Redpoll, Coues' Redpoll, Eurasian Goldfinch, Asian Rosy-Finch (brunneonucha), Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Common Rosefinch, Hodgson's Rosefinch, Common Rosefinch, Pallas' Rosefinch, Pine Grosbeak, Kamchatka Pine Grosbeak, Red Crossbill, Eurasian White-winged Crossbill, Grey-bellied Bullfinch, Eurasian Bullfinch, Cassin's Bullfinch, Japanese Hawfinch, Western Hawfinch, Chinese Grosbeak/Yellow-billed Grosbeak, Japanese Grosbeak, Pileolated Warbler, Eastern Yellowhammer, Western Pine Bunting, Meadow Bunting (E.c. ciopsis), Meadow Bunting (E.c.castaneiceps), Grey-necked Bunting, Ortolan Bunting, Tristram's Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting, Little Bunting, Yellow-browed Bunting, Rustic Bunting, Yellow-headed Bunting), Yellow-breasted Bunting, Chestnut Bunting, Black-headed Bunting, Red-headed Bunting, Yellow Bunting, Masked Bunting, Western Black-faced Bunting, Grey Bunting, Western Pallas's Bunting, Pallas's Reed Bunting, Japanese Reed Bunting, Reed Bunting, Lapland Longspur, Siberian Snow Bunting, Pribilof Snow Bunting, Aleutian Song Sparrow, Gambel's Sparrow
Edited by Masayuki Shimada on 2021-08-06 11:02:32
- Bird-watching at the remote island at the north of Japan Sea. - More than three days trip is recommended. * There is a risk that the boat will be cancelled due to bad weather conditions, so we must secure the schedule considering such risk. - Best season: May, October to November Here we have chance to see Japanese Quail, Mandarin Duck, Gadwall, Falcated Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Eurasian Teal/Common Teal, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Greater Scaup (American), Red-throated Loon/Red-throated Diver, Black-throated Loon/Black-throated Diver/Arctic Loon (Green-throated), Pacific Loon/Pacific Diver, Streaked Shearwater, Flesh-footed Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Short-tailed Shearwater, Little Grebe, Holboll's Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Japanese Night-Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Chinese Pond-Heron, Eastern Cattle Egret, Grey Heron, Eastern Purple Heron, Eurasian Great Egret, Eastern Great Egret, Intermediate Egret, Little Egret, Chinese Egret, Great Cormorant, Japanese Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant, Common Kestrel, Amur Falcon, Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Siberian Honey-buzzard, Black Kite, Pied Harrier, Chinese Sparrowhawk, Japanese Sparrowhawk, Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Goshawk, Grey-faced Buzzard, Japanese Buzzard, Brown-cheeked Rail, Ruddy-breasted Crake, Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot, Pacific Golden-Plover, Grey Plover, Long-billed Plover, Western Little Ringed Plover, Kentish Plover, Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni), European Woodcock, Jack Snipe, Solitary Snipe, Latham's Snipe, Pin-tailed Snipe, Swinhoe's Snipe, Common Snipe, Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit, Little Curlew, Whimbrel, Far Eastern Curlew, Spotted Redshank, Marsh Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Grey-tailed Tattler, Wandering Tattler, Common Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone, Black Turnstone, Red-necked Stint, Temminck's Stint, Long-toed Stint, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Siberian Dunlin, Red-necked Phalarope, Red Phalarope, Oriental Pratincole, Black-tailed Gull, Kamchatka Gull, Glaucous-winged Gull, ,br. Glaucous Gull, Vega Gull, Slaty-backed Gull, Siberian Gull, Siberian Black-headed Gull, Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake, Common Tern, Aleutian Tern, South Polar Skua, Pomarine Jaeger/Pomarine Skua, Parasitic Jaeger, Eastern Long-tailed Jaeger, Franz Joseph Dovekie, Thick-billed Murre/Brunnich's Guillemot/Thick-billed Murre (arra), North Pacific Murre, Pigeon Guillemot, Spectacled Guillemot, Ancient Murrelet, Japanese Murrelet, Parakeet Auklet, Least Auklet, Crested Auklet, Stock Pigeon, Japanese Wood-Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Chestnut-winged Cuckoo, Large Hawk-Cuckoo, Northern Hawk-Cuckoo, Indian Cuckoo, Eastern Common Cuckoo, Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo, Lessor Cuckoo, Asian Koel, Japanese Scops-Owl, Oriental Scope-Owl, Eagle Owl, Ural Owl, Northern Boobook, Short-eared Owl, Grey Nightjar, Himalayan Swiftlet, Northern White-throated Needletail, Eastern Common Swift, Pacific Swift (kanoi), House Swift, Oriental Dollarbird/Dollarbird, Black-capped Kingfisher, Common Kingfisher, Eurasian Hoopoe, Japanese Wryneck, Rufous-bellied Woodpecker (subrufinus), Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker (D.m.hondoensis), Great Spotted Woodpecker (D.m.brevirostris), Japanese Woodpecker, Fairy pitta, White-breasted Woodswallow, Ashy Minivet, Tiger Shrike, Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Shrike, Brown Shrike, Brown Shrike, Western Red-backed Shrike, Isabelline Shrike, Long-tailed Shrike (Taiwan), Long-tailed Shrike (Taiwan), Black-naped Oriole, King drongo, Ashy Drongo, Black Paradise-Flycatcher, Japanese Jay, Daurian Jackdaw, Eastern Rook, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Bohemian Waxwing, Japanese Waxwing, Japanese Tit, Yellow-bellied Tit, Coal Tit, Varied Tit, Willow Tit, Kamchatka Sand Martin, Barn Swallow (gutturalis), Barn Swallow, Pacific Swallow, Eastern House Martin, Asian House Martin, Red-rumped Swallow, Long-tailed Tit, Mongolian Lark, Mongolian Short-toed Lark/Syke's Short-toed Lark, Asian Short-toed Lark, Japanese Skylark, Large Japanese Sky-Lark, Japanese Skylark (A.j.lonnbergi), Pallid Horned Lark, Asian Stubtail, Japanese Bush Warbler, Korean Bush-Warbler, Lanceolated Warbler, Pallas's Grasshopper-Warbler, Middendorff's Warbler, Sakhalin grasshopper warbler, Oriental Reed Warbler, Black-browed Reed Warbler, Paddyfield Warbler, Booted Warbler, Siberian Willow Warbler, Siberian Chiffchaff, Wood Warbler, Common Dusky Warbler, Tickell's Leaf-Warbler, Radde's Warbler, Pallas's Leaf Warbler, Yellow-browed Warbler, Arctic Warbler, Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler, Kamchatka Leaf Warbler, Pale-legged Leaf Warbler, Sakhalin Leaf Warbler, Two-barred Greenish Warbler, Eastern Crowned Warbler, Sulphur-breasted Warbler, Greater Whitethroat, Chestnut-flanked White-eye, Honshu White-eye, Goldcrest, Chinese Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Daurian Starling, Chestnut-cheeked Starling, Red-billed Starling, White-cheeked Starling, Siberian Common Starling, Siberian Thrush, Western Siberian Thrush, White's thrush, Western Grey-cheeked Thrush, Grey-backed Thrush, Japanese Thrush, Chinese Blackbird, Eyebrowed Thrush, Pale Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Brown-headed Thrush, Black-throated Thrush, Red-throated Thrush, Naumann's Thrush, Dusky Thrush, Fieldfare, Redwing, White-Browed Shortwing, Red-spotted Bluethroat, West Siberian European Robin, Japanese Robin, Greater Kamchatkan Rubythroat, Siberian Blue Robin, Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin, Rufous-tailed Robin, Daurian Redstart, South-eastern Black Redstart, Common Redstart, Stejneger's Stonechat, Grey Bushchat, Isabelline Wheatear, Northern Wheatear, Pied Wheatear, Desert Wheatear, Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush, Red-bellied Rock Thrush, White-throated Rock Thrush, Spotted Flycatcher, Grey-streaked Flycatcher, Dark-sided Flycatcher, Asian Brown Flycatcher, Yellow-rumped Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher, Chinese Flycatcher, Mugimaki Flycatcher, Taiga Flycatcher, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Zappey's Flycatcher, House Sparrow, Russet Sparrow, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Alpine Accentor, Western Siberian Accentor, Japanese Accentor, Forest Wagtail, Green-headed Wagtail, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Manchurian Yellow Wagtail, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Northern Citrine Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Amur Wagtail, East Siberian Wagtail, Baikal Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Richard's Pipit, Blyth's Pipit, Tree Pipit, Olive-backed Pipit, Northern Olive-backed Pipit, Pechora Pipit (Manzbier's), Red-throated Pipit, Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian), Common Chaffinch, Brambling, Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.minor), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba), Eurasian Siskin, Common Redpoll, Coues' Redpoll, Eurasian Goldfinch, Asian Rosy-Finch (brunneonucha), Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch, Long-tailed Rosefinch, Common Rosefinch, Hodgson's Rosefinch, Common Rosefinch, Pallas' Rosefinch, Pine Grosbeak, Kamchatka Pine Grosbeak, Red Crossbill, Eurasian White-winged Crossbill, Grey-bellied Bullfinch, Eurasian Bullfinch, Cassin's Bullfinch, Japanese Hawfinch, Western Hawfinch, Chinese Grosbeak/Yellow-billed Grosbeak, Japanese Grosbeak, Pileolated Warbler, Eastern Yellowhammer, Western Pine Bunting, Meadow Bunting (E.c. ciopsis), Meadow Bunting (E.c.castaneiceps), Grey-necked Bunting, Ortolan Bunting, Tristram's Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting, Little Bunting, Yellow-browed Bunting, Rustic Bunting, Yellow-headed Bunting), Yellow-breasted Bunting, Chestnut Bunting, Black-headed Bunting, Red-headed Bunting, Yellow Bunting, Masked Bunting, Western Black-faced Bunting, Grey Bunting, Western Pallas's Bunting, Pallas's Reed Bunting, Japanese Reed Bunting, Reed Bunting, Lapland Longspur, Siberian Snow Bunting, Pribilof Snow Bunting, Aleutian Song Sparrow, Gambel's Sparrow

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