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). Cover photo by Snezana & Slobodan Panjkovic.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2017

On a recent visit to Tokyo, Japan, I came across a beautiful bird that I took to be a White’s Thrush , Zoothera dauma. toratugumi , the northerly form of the migratory species that occurs in Japan should be the obvious choice, but by this logic, all such thrushes seen in Japan (apart from Amami Island) should be White’s.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2018

If Japan Can Why Can’t We : 17,000 views (2 years – 39,000). The Schools Our Children Deserve by Alfie Kohn from the 2015 Deming in Education conference: 2,900 views (2 years – 5,500). Inquiring Minds: Improving Elementary Science – Linda Lippe’s presentation at our 2015 Deming in Education Conference.

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JANUARY 24, 2016

It was only a week later that we discovered our first Terek Sandpiper that had been flagged at Torinumi in Japan. We were away in March 2015, so we don’t know how long it remained on that beach, but we observed it once again on 17th October 2015 and it continues to roost and feed in that area.

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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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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2015

We have also observed shorebirds marked in Japan, including a Red-necked Stint marked in Japan last year. On 27th June 2015 it was captured by the Wild Bird Society of I-Lan and once you open that link you may want to translate it! The next observation was right here in Broome on 11th December 2015!

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