10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2020

The Ural Owl inhabits old and undisturbed boreal forests, in an unbroken belt from Sweden and Finland across Russia to Japan, and is rarely seen to the south, only here and there, in the Carpathians (Slovakia/Ukraine/Romania/eastern Serbia) and Dinaric Alps (Croatia/Bosnia/western Serbia). Two years ago I screamed “UralOwlUralOwlUralOwl!!!”

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Serbia Owls Slovakia Bosnia 246

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2016

Great Knot and Red Knot will all intermingle together and the Red Knot are easily overlooked when not in their breeding plumage when every bird appears “grey”! It was only a week later that we discovered our first Terek Sandpiper that had been flagged at Torinumi in Japan.

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Taiwan 2012 2015 2014 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The Grey-headed Lapwing- Vanellus cinereus breeds in north-east China and Japan between April and June and then migrate to spend the winter in northern Southeast Asia from northeastern India to Cambodia and southern Japan. We don’t “twitch” birds, but it would be a bird to look out for during our visit.

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Australia 2006 Japan Cambodia 106

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2015

We have also observed shorebirds marked in Japan, including a Red-necked Stint marked in Japan last year. We have observed an individually marked Grey-tailed Tattler from Taiwan each year in the non-breeding part of their year since late 2012 and it is especially nice to see its safe return to Broome each year.

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Taiwan Australia 2015 Japan 122