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Guide to Some Birds of the Okhotsk Region

For our on-line bird guide we have selected some of the birds that are characteristic of our region of Hokkaido and can be seen during various times of the year. To see some photos and details of these birds, click on their names below. They are listed in the order they appear in the Checklist. We are gradually expanding this list and the content. Species marked with an asterisk (*at the bottom) are recent additions to the Checklist and are therefore extremely rare in our region. For these new entries, we relate the circumstances for their addition to the Checklist along with photos when possible. (The descriptions of the birds on these pages are from the Okhotsk Chapter's Japanese site. Additional text by me is given in brackets [ ].)

English name	Scientific name	Japanese name
Whooper Swan	Cygnus cygnus	Oo-hakuchou
White-tailed Sea-Eagle	Haliaeetus albicilla	Ojiro-washi
Stellar's Sea-Eagle	Haliaeetus pelagicus	Oo-washi
Hazel Grouse	Tetrastes bonasia	Ezo-raichou
Japanese Crane	Grus japonensis	Tanchou
Far Eastern Curlew	Numenius madagascariensis	Houroku-shigi
Latham's Snipe	Gallinago hardwickii	Ooji-shigi
Ross's Gull	Rhodostethia rosea	Himekubiwa-kamome
Blakiston's Fish-Owl	Ketupa blakistoni	Shima-fukurou
Ural Owl	Strix uralensis (ssp)	Ezo Fukurou
Black Woodpecker	Drycopus martius	Kuma-gera
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker	Dendrocopus minor	Ko-aka-gera
Eurasian Skylark	Alauda arvensis	Hibari
Long-tailed Tit	Aegithalos caudatus (ssp)	Shima Enaga
Snow Bunting	Plectrophenax nivalis	Yuki-hoojiro
Common Redpoll	Carduelis flammea	Beni-hiwa
Eurasian Tree Sparrow	Passer montanus	Suzume
Eurasian Jay	Garrulus glandarius	Kakesu
Northern Raven	Corvus corax	Watari-garasu
Buller's Shearwater*	Puffinus bulleri	Minami-onaga-mizunagidori
Swan Goose*	Anser cygnoides	Sakatsura-gan
Ashy Minivet*	Pericrocotus divaricatus	Sanshoukui

Oriental Cuckoo (Tsutsudori; Cuculus optatus). Often heard but not often seen. (Futatsu-iwa, Abashiri, 28 May 2013; photo: DB)