- Birding at Lake Biwa, paddy fiels and Mt. Yamamotoyama.
- One or two days trip is recommended.
- Best season: October to March
Here we have chance to see
Japanese Quail (summer), Green Pheasant (kigis), Taiga Bean Goose (Middendorff's) (winter), Bean Goose (winter), Greylag Goose (Siberian) (winter), Greater White-fronted Goose (Tundra) (winter), Snow Goose (Lesser) (winter), Cackling Goose (Aleutian) (winter), Canada Goose (Moffit's), Black Brant (winter), Whooper Swan (winter), Tundra Swan/Tundra Swan/Bewick's Swan (winter), Common Shelduck (migrant), Ruddy Shelduck (migrant), Mandarin Duck (winter), Gadwall (winter), Falcated Duck (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter), American Wigeon (winter), Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler (winter), Northern Pintail (winter), Garganey (migrant), Baikal Teal (winter), Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter), Red-crested Pochard (winter), Pochard (winter),
Baer's Pochard (winter), Ferruginous Pochard (winter), Tufted Duck (winter), Greater Scaup (American) (winter), Common Goldeneye (winter), Smew (winter), Common Merganser/Goosander (winter), Red-breasted Merganser (winter), Black-throated Loon/Black-throated Diver/Arctic Loon (Green-throated) (winter), Streaked Shearwater (migrant), Little Grebe, Holboll's Grebe (winter), Great Crested Grebe (winter), Horned Grebe (winter), Black-necked Grebe (winter), Eurasian Spoonbill (winter), Eurasian Bittern/Great Bittern (winter), Yellow Bittern (summer), Striated Heron (amurensis) (summer), Black-crowned Night Heron (summer), Eastern Cattle Egret (summer), Grey Heron, Eastern Purple Heron (migrant), Eurasian Great Egret (A.a.alba)(winter), Eastern Great Egret (A.modesta)(summer), Intermediate Egret (summer), Little Egret, Pacific Reef Heron/Pacific Reef-Egret (migrant), Chinese Egret (migrant), Great Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant (winter), Common Kestrel (winter), Merlin (winter), Northern Hobby (migrant), Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Siberian Honey-buzzard (migrant), Black Kite, White-tailed Eagle (winter), Steller's Sea-Eagle (winter), Eastern Marsh-Harrier (winter), Hen Harrier (winter), Japanese Sparrowhawk (migrant), Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter), Goshawk, Grey-faced Buzzard (migrant), Japanese Buzzard (winter), Siberian Rough-legged Hawk (winter), Japanese Golden Eagle, Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis), Brown-cheeked Rail (winter), White-breasted Waterken (migrant), Ruddy-breasted Crake, Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot, White-naped Crane (migrant), Hooded Crane (migrant), Black-winged Stilt (migrant), Northern Lapwing (winter), Grey-headed Lapwing, Pacific Golden-Plover (migrant), Grey Plover (migrant), Long-billed Plover, Western Little Ringed Plover (summer), Kentish Plover (migrant), Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni) (migrant), Pheasant-tailed Jacana (migrant), Common Greater Painted-snipe, European Woodcock (winter), Latham's Snipe (migrant), Swinhoe's Snipe (migrant), Common Snipe (winter), Long-billed Dowitcher (migrant), Eastern Black-tailed Godwit (migrant), Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit (migrant), Whimbrel (migrant), Far Eastern Curlew (migrant), Spotted Redshank (migrant), Marsh Sandpiper (migrant), Common Greenshank (migrant), Green Sandpiper (migrant), Wood Sandpiper (migrant), Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant), Terek Sandpiper (migrant), Common Sandpiper (migrant), Ruddy Turnstone (migrant), Great Knot (migrant), Red-necked Stint (migrant), Pectoral Sandpiper (migrant), Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (migrant), Curlew Sandpiper (migrant), Ruff (migrant), Red-necked Phalarope (migrant), Red Phalarope (migrant), Black-tailed Gull, Kamchatka Gull (winter), Glaucous-winged Gull (winter), Glaucous Gull (winter), Vega Gull (winter), Slaty-backed Gull (winter), Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter), Saunder's Gull (winter), Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake (winter), Common Tern (migrant), Little Tern (migrant), Whiskered Tern (migrant), White-winged Tern (migrant), Pomarine Jaeger/Pomarine Skua (migrant), Parasitic Jaeger/Arctic Skua(migrant), Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Eastern Common Cuckoo (migrant), Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo (migrant), Lessor Cuckoo (migrant), Ural Owl, Northern Boobook (summer), Northern Long-eared Owl (winter), Short-eared Owl (winter), Northern White-throated Needletail (summer), Pacific Swift (kanoi) (summer), House Swift (summer), Ruddy Kingfisher (summer), Black-capped Kingfisher (migrant), Common Kingfisher, Eurasian Hoopoe (migrant), Japanese Wryneck (winter), Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker (winter), Japanese Woodpecker (winter), Ashy Minivet (migrant), Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Jay (migrant), Daurian Jackdaw (winter), Eastern Rook (winter), South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Bohemian Waxwing (winter), Japanese Waxwing (winter), Japanese Tit, Coal Tit (winter), Varied Tit (migrant), Chinese Penduline Tit (migrant), Kamchatka Sand Martin (migrant), Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Asian House Martin (summer), Red-rumped Swallow (summer), Long-tailed Tit, Japanese Skylark, Zitting Cisticola (summer), Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler, Middendorff's Warbler (migrant), Oriental Reed Warbler (summer), Black-browed Reed Warbler (migrant), Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler (migrant), Kamchatka Leaf Warbler (migrant), Sakhalin Leaf Warbler (migrant), Eastern Crowned Warbler (migrant), Honshu White-eye, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus) (winter), Chestnut-cheeked Starling (migrant), White-cheeked Starling, Siberian Common Starling (winter), White's Thrush (winter), Japanese Thrush (migrant), Eyebrowed Thrush (migrant), Pale Thrush (winter), Brown-headed Thrush (winter), Dusky Thrush (winter), Japanese Robin (migrant), Greater Kamchatkan Rubythroat (migrant), Siberian Blue Robin (migrant), Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin (winter), Daurian Redstart (winter), Stejneger's Stonechat (migrant), Red-bellied Rock Thrush, Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant), Asian Brown Flycatcher (migrant), Narcissus Flycatcher (migrant), Mugimaki Flycatcher (migrant), Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (migrant), Russet Sparrow (migrant), Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit (winter), Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian) (winter), Brambling (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s,minor)'summer), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba)(winter), Eurasian Siskin (winter), Asian Rosy-Finch (brunneonucha) (winter), Long-tailed Rosefinch (winter), Red Crossbill (migrant), Grey-bellied Bullfinch (winter), Eurasian Bullfinch (winter), Japanese Hawfinch (winter), Chinese Grosbeak/Yellow-billed Grosbeak (winter), Japanese Grosbeak, Western Pine Bunting (migrant), Meadow Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting (winter), Rustic Bunting (winter), Yellow-headed Bunting (winter), Yellow Bunting (migrant), Masked Bunting (winter), Reed Bunting (winter)
- Birding at Lake Biwa, paddy fiels and Mt. Yamamotoyama.
- One or two days trip is recommended.
- Best season: October to March
Here we have chance to see
Japanese Quail (summer), Green Pheasant (kigis), Taiga Bean Goose (Middendorff's) (winter), Bean Goose (winter), Greylag Goose (Siberian) (winter), Greater White-fronted Goose (Tundra) (winter), Snow Goose (Lesser) (winter), Cackling Goose (Aleutian) (winter), Canada Goose (Moffit's), Black Brant (winter), Whooper Swan (winter), Tundra Swan/Tundra Swan/Bewick's Swan (winter), Common Shelduck (migrant), Ruddy Shelduck (migrant), Mandarin Duck (winter), Gadwall (winter), Falcated Duck (winter), Eurasian Wigeon (winter), American Wigeon (winter), Mallard, Eastern Spot-billed Duck, Northern Shoveler (winter), Northern Pintail (winter), Garganey (migrant), Baikal Teal (winter), Eurasian Teal/Common Teal (winter), Red-crested Pochard (winter), Pochard (winter),
Baer's Pochard (winter), Ferruginous Pochard (winter), Tufted Duck (winter), Greater Scaup (American) (winter), Common Goldeneye (winter), Smew (winter), Common Merganser/Goosander (winter), Red-breasted Merganser (winter), Black-throated Loon/Black-throated Diver/Arctic Loon (Green-throated) (winter), Streaked Shearwater (migrant), Little Grebe, Holboll's Grebe (winter), Great Crested Grebe (winter), Horned Grebe (winter), Black-necked Grebe (winter), Eurasian Spoonbill (winter), Eurasian Bittern/Great Bittern (winter), Yellow Bittern (summer), Striated Heron (amurensis) (summer), Black-crowned Night Heron (summer), Eastern Cattle Egret (summer), Grey Heron, Eastern Purple Heron (migrant), Eurasian Great Egret (A.a.alba)(winter), Eastern Great Egret (A.modesta)(summer), Intermediate Egret (summer), Little Egret, Pacific Reef Heron/Pacific Reef-Egret (migrant), Chinese Egret (migrant), Great Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant (winter), Common Kestrel (winter), Merlin (winter), Northern Hobby (migrant), Eastern Peregrine Falcon, Osprey, Siberian Honey-buzzard (migrant), Black Kite, White-tailed Eagle (winter), Steller's Sea-Eagle (winter), Eastern Marsh-Harrier (winter), Hen Harrier (winter), Japanese Sparrowhawk (migrant), Siberian Eurasian Sparrowhawk (winter), Goshawk, Grey-faced Buzzard (migrant), Japanese Buzzard (winter), Siberian Rough-legged Hawk (winter), Japanese Golden Eagle, Mountain Hawk-Eagle (orientalis), Brown-cheeked Rail (winter), White-breasted Waterken (migrant), Ruddy-breasted Crake, Eurasian Moorhen, Common Coot, White-naped Crane (migrant), Hooded Crane (migrant), Black-winged Stilt (migrant), Northern Lapwing (winter), Grey-headed Lapwing, Pacific Golden-Plover (migrant), Grey Plover (migrant), Long-billed Plover, Western Little Ringed Plover (summer), Kentish Plover (migrant), Lesser Sand-Plover (stegmanni) (migrant), Pheasant-tailed Jacana (migrant), Common Greater Painted-snipe, European Woodcock (winter), Latham's Snipe (migrant), Swinhoe's Snipe (migrant), Common Snipe (winter), Long-billed Dowitcher (migrant), Eastern Black-tailed Godwit (migrant), Eastern Bar-tailed Godwit (migrant), Whimbrel (migrant), Far Eastern Curlew (migrant), Spotted Redshank (migrant), Marsh Sandpiper (migrant), Common Greenshank (migrant), Green Sandpiper (migrant), Wood Sandpiper (migrant), Grey-tailed Tattler (migrant), Terek Sandpiper (migrant), Common Sandpiper (migrant), Ruddy Turnstone (migrant), Great Knot (migrant), Red-necked Stint (migrant), Pectoral Sandpiper (migrant), Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (migrant), Curlew Sandpiper (migrant), Ruff (migrant), Red-necked Phalarope (migrant), Red Phalarope (migrant), Black-tailed Gull, Kamchatka Gull (winter), Glaucous-winged Gull (winter), Glaucous Gull (winter), Vega Gull (winter), Slaty-backed Gull (winter), Siberian Black-headed Gull (winter), Saunder's Gull (winter), Pacific Black-legged Kittiwake (winter), Common Tern (migrant), Little Tern (migrant), Whiskered Tern (migrant), White-winged Tern (migrant), Pomarine Jaeger/Pomarine Skua (migrant), Parasitic Jaeger/Arctic Skua(migrant), Eastern Oriental Turtle-Dove, White-bellied Green-Pigeon, Eastern Common Cuckoo (migrant), Oriental Cuckoo/Horsfield's Cuckoo (migrant), Lessor Cuckoo (migrant), Ural Owl, Northern Boobook (summer), Northern Long-eared Owl (winter), Short-eared Owl (winter), Northern White-throated Needletail (summer), Pacific Swift (kanoi) (summer), House Swift (summer), Ruddy Kingfisher (summer), Black-capped Kingfisher (migrant), Common Kingfisher, Eurasian Hoopoe (migrant), Japanese Wryneck (winter), Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker (winter), Japanese Woodpecker (winter), Ashy Minivet (migrant), Bull-headed Shrike, Japanese Jay (migrant), Daurian Jackdaw (winter), Eastern Rook (winter), South Asian Carrion Crow, Japanese Jungle Crow, Bohemian Waxwing (winter), Japanese Waxwing (winter), Japanese Tit, Coal Tit (winter), Varied Tit (migrant), Chinese Penduline Tit (migrant), Kamchatka Sand Martin (migrant), Barn Swallow (gutturalis) (summer), Asian House Martin (summer), Red-rumped Swallow (summer), Long-tailed Tit, Japanese Skylark, Zitting Cisticola (summer), Brown-eared Bulbul, Japanese Bush Warbler, Middendorff's Warbler (migrant), Oriental Reed Warbler (summer), Black-browed Reed Warbler (migrant), Japanese Leaf Warbler/Pacific Leaf Warbler (migrant), Kamchatka Leaf Warbler (migrant), Sakhalin Leaf Warbler (migrant), Eastern Crowned Warbler (migrant), Honshu White-eye, Eurasian Wren (fumigatus) (winter), Chestnut-cheeked Starling (migrant), White-cheeked Starling, Siberian Common Starling (winter), White's Thrush (winter), Japanese Thrush (migrant), Eyebrowed Thrush (migrant), Pale Thrush (winter), Brown-headed Thrush (winter), Dusky Thrush (winter), Japanese Robin (migrant), Greater Kamchatkan Rubythroat (migrant), Siberian Blue Robin (migrant), Red-flanked Bluetail/Orange-flanked Bush-Robin (winter), Daurian Redstart (winter), Stejneger's Stonechat (migrant), Red-bellied Rock Thrush, Grey-streaked Flycatcher (migrant), Asian Brown Flycatcher (migrant), Narcissus Flycatcher (migrant), Mugimaki Flycatcher (migrant), Japanese Blue-and-white Flycatcher (migrant), Russet Sparrow (migrant), Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Grey Wagtail, Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Wagtail, Olive-backed Pipit (winter), Buff-bellied Pipit/American Pipit (Siberian) (winter), Brambling (winter), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s,minor)'summer), Grey-capped Greenfinch (C.s.kawarahiba)(winter), Eurasian Siskin (winter), Asian Rosy-Finch (brunneonucha) (winter), Long-tailed Rosefinch (winter), Red Crossbill (migrant), Grey-bellied Bullfinch (winter), Eurasian Bullfinch (winter), Japanese Hawfinch (winter), Chinese Grosbeak/Yellow-billed Grosbeak (winter), Japanese Grosbeak, Western Pine Bunting (migrant), Meadow Bunting, Chestnut-eared Bunting (winter), Rustic Bunting (winter), Yellow-headed Bunting (winter), Yellow Bunting (migrant), Masked Bunting (winter), Reed Bunting (winter)