Links to birdwatching in Japan

• Stintfan Recommended photos of Sandpipers
• Gallinago@web Recommended photos of Snipes
• Wild Bird Society of Japan
• Wild bird society of Japan research center
• Tsukuba Nourin Yacho no Kai homepage (maintained by Katayama-san) of a group of birdwatchers of the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fishery in Tsukuba
• Field Note of KUMAWO with beautiful photographs.
• H. Hiraizumi's Birding Page
• A Field Guide of Miyagi Pref by Shigenobu Aizawa. Check the beautiful pictures hidden behind the links in the family names! For instance the gull photographs
• Steve Hampton's page on links to gull identification.
• Motoo Hoshi-sans homepage. Among many other things: addresses of environmental groups in Japan.
• Koike-sans growing photo collection of Japanese birds.
• Mieda-sans photo collection of Japanese birds
• Yatsu Higata in Tokyo bay
• Syunkunitai Wild Bird Center at Nemuro, Hokkaido
• Photo Gallery "Birds of Japan" by Setsuko Watanabe-san
• Shiokawa Tidalflat Preservation Association provides up to date info on Spring and Fall migration!
• HAWKS MIGRATION in SHINSHU provides up to date info on hawk migration over the Shirakabe-Toge pass.
• Hajime Hashimoto-sans homepage gives nice identification tips: for instance Oriental Honey Buzzard and Grey-faced Buzzard
• Save FujimaeAssociation
• Hakata Bay
• Future of cranes and Wetlands Wild Bird Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan.
• The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: not exactly birdwatching...
• Japan-Australia Migratory Bird Agreement, version 5 November 1996.
• Report Of The National Wild Bird Poaching Countermeasure Committee Of Japan.
• Geese
  • Japanese Association for Wild Geese Protection
  • WILD GEESE IN TOKACHI, HOKKAIDO JAPAN
  • Miyage, feb 98 overview
  or see World Wetlands Day in Miyagi JAPAN
• Resurrection in the Wind by Rick Steiner. On the Short-tailed albatros. Here is a local copy.