Choshi Port

35.74289 , 140.86052

Japan

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The introductory text should contain general information about the site, which may include for instance:
• geographic/ biogeographic location
• habitat and vegetation
• typical bird species/bird communities
• protection status
• land use and history
• importance for birdwatching

Coordinates were set by Mathias Ritschard (Admin) : 35.7429/140.8605 (2020-12-28 21:06:22 )

Site name was set by Mathias Ritschard (Admin) as "Choshi Port" (2020-12-28 21:06:22 )

Edited by Mathias Ritschard (Admin) on 2021-08-06 13:32:49
- Birding gulls in winter and sea birds in summer where the cold current from the north and warm current from south meet. - One full-day or two days is recommended. - Best season: December to March Here we have chance to see Black Brant (winter), Gadwall (winter), Falcated Duck (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter), Mallard (winter), Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler (winter), Northern Pintail (winter), Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter), Pochard (winter), Ring-necked Duck (winter), Tufted Duck (winter), Greater Scaup (American) (winter), Pacific Harlequin Duck (winter), Surf Scoter (winter), Stejneger's Scoter/White-winged Scoter (Siberian) (winter), Black Scoter (winter), Long-tailed Duck (winter), Bufflehead (winter), Common Goldeneye (winter), Red-breasted Merganser (winter), Red-throated Loon/Red-throated Diver (winter), Black-throated Loon/Black-throated Diver/Arctic Loon (Green-throated) (winter), Pacific Loon/Pacific Diver (winter), Yellow-billed Loon/White-billed Diver (winter), Northern Fulmar (Pacific) (winter), Streaked Shearwater(summer), Buller's Shearwater (migrant), Cook's Petrel (migrant), Leach's Storm-Petrel (summer), Fork-tailed Petrel (winter), Little Grebe, Holboll's Grebe (winter), Great Crested Grebe (winter), Horned Grebe (winter), Black-necked Grebe (winter), Grey Heron, Eastern Great Egret (migrant), Little Egret (winter), Pacific Reef Heron/Pacific Reef-Egret, Lesser Frigatebird (summer), Great Cormorant, Japanese Cormorant (winter), Pelagic Cormorant (winter), Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Black Kite, Common Coot, Kamtchatka Oystercatcher, Grey Plover (winter), Western Little Ringed Plover (migrant), Kentish Plover, Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni) (migrant), Whimbrel (migrant), Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant), Ruddy Turnstone (migrant), Sandering, Red-necked Stint (migrant), Siberian Dunlin (winter), Red-necked Phalarope (migrant), Black-tailed Gull, Kamchatka Gull (winter), Short-billed Gull (winter), Ring-billed Gull (winter), Glaucous-winged Gull (winter), Glaucous Gull (winter), Point Barrow Gull (winter), Kumlien's Gull (winter), Thayer's Gull (winter), Vega Gull (winter), Caspian Gull (winter), Baraba Gull (winter), American Herring Gull (winter), Mongolian Gull (winter), Slaty-backed Gull (winter), Siberian Gull (winter), Taymyr Gull (winter), Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter), Slender-billed Gull (winter), Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake (winter), Caspian Tern (winter), Greater Crested Tern (migrant), Indo-pacific Roseate Tern (summer), Common Tern (S.h.minussensis)(migrant), Common Tern (S.h.longipennis)(migrant), Little Tern (summer), Least Tern (summer), Aleutian Tern (migrant), Gull-billed Tern (migrant), Whiskered Tern (migrant), White-winged Tern (migrant), Pomarine Jaeger/Pomarine Skua(summer), Pigeon Guillemot (winter), Marbled Murrelet (winter), Ancient Murrelet (winter), Japanese Murrelet (winter), Rock Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Bull-headed Shrike, Azure-winged Magpie, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Japanese Skylark, Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler, Honshu White-eye, White-cheeked Starling, Black-backed Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit (winter), Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian) (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba)(winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.minor)(summer)
Edited by Masayuki Shimada on 2021-08-06 09:05:16
- Birding gulls in winter and sea birds in summer where the cold current from the north and warm current from south meet. - One full-day or two days is recommended. - Best season: December to March March Here we have chance to see Black Brant (winter), Gadwall (winter), Falcated Duck (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter), Mallard (winter), Eastern (winter), Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Duck, Northern Shoveler (winter), Northern Pintail (winter), Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter), Pochard (winter), Pochard (winter), Ring-necked Duck (winter), Tufted Duck (winter), Greater Scaup (American) (winter), Pacific (winter), Pacific Harlequin Duck (winter), Surf Scoter (winter), Stejneger's Scoter/White-winged Scoter (Siberian) (winter), Black Scoter (winter), Long-tailed (winter), Long-tailed Duck (winter), Bufflehead (winter), Common Goldeneye (winter), Red-breasted Merganser (winter), Red-throated (winter), Red-throated Loon/Red-throated Diver (winter), Black-throated Loon/Black-throated Diver/Arctic Loon (Green-throated) (winter), Pacific Loon/Pacific Diver (winter), Yellow-billed Loon/White-billed Diver (winter), Northern (winter), Northern Fulmar (Pacific) (winter), Streaked Shearwater(summer), Buller's Shearwater (migrant), Cook's Petrel (migrant), Leach's (migrant), Leach's Storm-Petrel (summer), Fork-tailed Petrel (winter), Little Grebe, Holboll's Grebe (winter), Great (winter), Great Crested Grebe (winter), Horned Grebe (winter), Black-necked Grebe (winter), Grey (winter), Grey Heron, Eastern Great Egret (migrant), Little Egret (winter), Pacific Reef Heron/Pacific Reef-Egret, Lesser Frigatebird (summer), Great (summer), Great Cormorant, Japanese Cormorant (winter), Pelagic Cormorant (winter), Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Black Osprey, Black Kite, Common Coot, Kamtchatka Oystercatcher, Grey Plover (winter), Western Little Ringed Plover (migrant), Kentish (migrant), Kentish Plover, Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni) (migrant), Whimbrel (migrant), Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant), Ruddy Turnstone (migrant), Sandering, (migrant), Sandering, Red-necked Stint (migrant), Siberian Dunlin (winter), Red-necked Phalarope (migrant), Black-tailed (migrant), Black-tailed Gull, Kamchatka Gull (winter), Short-billed Gull (winter), Ring-billed Gull (winter), Glaucous-winged (winter), Glaucous-winged Gull (winter), Glaucous Gull (winter), Point Barrow Gull (winter), Kumlien's Gull (winter), Thayer's (winter), Thayer's Gull (winter), Vega Gull (winter), Caspian Gull (winter), Baraba Gull (winter), American Herring Gull (winter), Mongolian (winter), Mongolian Gull (winter), Slaty-backed Gull (winter), Siberian Gull (winter), Taymyr Gull (winter), Siberian (winter), Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter), Slender-billed Gull (winter), Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake (winter), Caspian (winter), Caspian Tern (winter), Greater Crested Tern (migrant), Indo-pacific Roseate Tern (summer), Common (summer), Common Tern (S.h.minussensis)(migrant), Common Tern (S.h.longipennis)(migrant), Little Tern (summer), Least Tern (summer), Aleutian (summer), Aleutian Tern (migrant), Gull-billed Tern (migrant), Whiskered Tern (migrant), White-winged Tern (migrant), Pomarine (migrant), Pomarine Jaeger/Pomarine Skua(summer), Pigeon Guillemot (winter), Marbled Murrelet (winter), Ancient Murrelet (winter), Japanese (winter), Japanese Murrelet (winter), Rock Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Bull-headed Shrike, Azure-winged Magpie, South Magpie, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Japanese Skylark, Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler, Honshu White-eye, White-cheeked Starling, Black-backed Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit (winter), Buff-bellied (winter), Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian) (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba)(winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.minor)(summer)
Edited by Masayuki Shimada on 2021-08-06 08:56:11
- Birding gulls in winter and sea birds in summer where the cold current from the north and warm current from south meet. - One full-day or two days is recommended. - Best season: December to March Here we have chance to see Black Brant (winter), Gadwall (winter), Falcated Duck (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter), Mallard (winter), Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler (winter), Northern Pintail (winter), Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter), Pochard (winter), Ring-necked Duck (winter), Tufted Duck (winter), Greater Scaup (American) (winter), Pacific Harlequin Duck (winter), Surf Scoter (winter), Stejneger's Scoter/White-winged Scoter (Siberian) (winter), Black Scoter (winter), Long-tailed Duck (winter), Bufflehead (winter), Common Goldeneye (winter), Red-breasted Merganser (winter), Red-throated Loon/Red-throated Diver (winter), Black-throated Loon/Black-throated Diver/Arctic Loon (Green-throated) (winter), Pacific Loon/Pacific Diver (winter), Yellow-billed Loon/White-billed Diver (winter), Northern Fulmar (Pacific) (winter), Streaked Shearwater(summer), Buller's Shearwater (migrant), Cook's Petrel (migrant), Leach's Storm-Petrel (summer), Fork-tailed Petrel (winter), Little Grebe, Holboll's Grebe (winter), Great Crested Grebe (winter), Horned Grebe (winter), Black-necked Grebe (winter), Grey Heron, Eastern Great Egret (migrant), Little Egret (winter), Pacific Reef Heron/Pacific Reef-Egret, Lesser Frigatebird (summer), Great Cormorant, Japanese Cormorant (winter), Pelagic Cormorant (winter), Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Black Kite, Common Coot, Kamtchatka Oystercatcher, Grey Plover (winter), Western Little Ringed Plover (migrant), Kentish Plover, Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni) (migrant), Whimbrel (migrant), Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant), Ruddy Turnstone (migrant), Sandering, Red-necked Stint (migrant), Siberian Dunlin (winter), Red-necked Phalarope (migrant), Black-tailed Gull, Kamchatka Gull (winter), Short-billed Gull (winter), Ring-billed Gull (winter), Glaucous-winged Gull (winter), Glaucous Gull (winter), Point Barrow Gull (winter), Kumlien's Gull (winter), Thayer's Gull (winter), Vega Gull (winter), Caspian Gull (winter), Baraba Gull (winter), American Herring Gull (winter), Mongolian Gull (winter), Slaty-backed Gull (winter), Siberian Gull (winter), Taymyr Gull (winter), Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter), Slender-billed Gull (winter), Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake (winter), Caspian Tern (winter), Greater Crested Tern (migrant), Indo-pacific Roseate Tern (summer), Common Tern (S.h.minussensis)(migrant), Common Tern (S.h.longipennis)(migrant), Little Tern (summer), Least Tern (summer), Aleutian Tern (migrant), Gull-billed Tern (migrant), Whiskered Tern (migrant), White-winged Tern (migrant), Pomarine Jaeger/Pomarine Skua(summer), Pigeon Guillemot (winter), Marbled Murrelet (winter), Ancient Murrelet (winter), Japanese Murrelet (winter), Rock Pigeon, Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, Bull-headed Shrike, Azure-winged Magpie, South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Japanese Skylark, Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler, Honshu White-eye, White-cheeked Starling, Black-backed Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit (winter), Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian) (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba)(winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.minor)(summer)

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