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smews & bewick's swans among lots and lots of 🦆🦆🦆
#birdsseenin2026 #birdsofjapan #smew #swan #birdwatching
January 18, 2026 at 7:34 AM
kimr1264.bsky.social
The individual looks like this gorgeous one💕
a male Baikal teal in Chiba, Japan Feb2025
#birdsofjapan #ducks #birdwatching #waterfowl
January 18, 2026 at 4:38 AM
mspounds.bsky.social
Great cormorant and black-headed gulls (photo taken in November), Nishinomiya, Japan.
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One larger bird and several gulls sitting on rocks surrounded by water. The rocks and the birds are on the right side of the frame. The larger bird is dark with some white on his neck and face. Also some yellow on the face. The beak is long and gray, squared and hooked downward at the end. It tail is long and dark. The neck appears to be long and bent in an S shape. It is looking out over the water to the left. It is much taller than the gulls. The gulls have gray backs, darker tails, and white heads and bellies. There are dark smudges behind the eyes. Most of them have their heads bent down and are preening. The leftmost gull is leaning toward the water with its head turned to the side.
January 13, 2026 at 8:02 PM
ismaildona.bsky.social
"Wings of MOM !!!
#BirdInFlight #WinterBirds #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #SnowyBird #AvianPhotography #BirdsOfJapan #Yamagara #TitFamily #Paridae #BirdsOfEastAsia #Flig
January 7, 2026 at 6:35 AM
mspounds.bsky.social
I just discovered it is National Bird Day today! Here's a photo of an Oriental Greenfinch, taken along the Shukugawa river in Nishinomiya, Japan.
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Bird on a tree branch. Head is gray/green with hints of yellow. The back is brown, and the chest/belly is a lighter shade of brown. The wings are black, white, and bright yellow. The face is black and the beak is short and thick, and a light pink color. There are some small seed shells stuck on the beak. The bird is in profile, facing to the left. There are a couple other blurry branches in the frame, and the background is blurry shades of green, white, gray and brown.
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
ismaildona.bsky.social
"Wings of Winter!!!
#BirdInFlight #WinterBirds #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #SnowyBird #AvianPhotography #BirdsOfJapan #Yamagara #TitFamily #Paridae #BirdsOfEastAsia #FlightShot #NatureLovers #WildlifeOnearth #BirdWatching #MacroBird #WinterWildlife #FeatheredFriends
January 5, 2026 at 1:37 PM
mspounds.bsky.social
Eastern spot-billed duck, Shukugawa, Nishinomiya, Japan.
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Brown and white duck, with a dark bill that is yellow on the end of it. Head and neck are white, but there is a stripe across the top of the head, another through the eye, and a small one behind the bill. Tip of wing is white. It is swimming in clear water, and below the surface you can see sand with patches of green.
December 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
mspounds.bsky.social
White wagtail, Shukugawa, Nishinomiya, Japan.
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Small bird with a longish tail, gray/black with white belly and chest, white stripe across wing, and white face, and a black stripe through the eye. Feet are black, and it has one leg lifted, stepping forward. Background is sandy with some pine needles.
December 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
mspounds.bsky.social
Little egret, Shukugawa, Nishinomiya, Japan.
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White bird with long black legs and yellow feet, and a long black beak, standing on the edge if a concrete path, in profile facing to the right, back to the camera. Background is a tall, old-looking stone wall on the left, and the water of a river, with large random rocks scattered about. Background is somewhat blurry.
December 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
mspounds.bsky.social
Brown-eared bulbul, Nishida Park, Nishinomiya Japan.
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Gray, white and brown bird with a long gray tail and a somewhat long narrow black beak. White spots on the chest, brown on the side, and a brown spot below and behind the eye. It is facing the camera and looking to the left, perched on a branch. There is a second prominent branch with green leaves in the lower foreground and blurry green leaves in the background. No sky is visible.
December 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
birdpicsandscience.bsky.social
A Short-tailed Shearwater from Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan. Dad and I went out on a whale watching trip with our guide. Didn't see any whales, but did see somewhere around 10-50k Short-tailed Shearwaters. Incredible numbers, more seabirds than I've ever seen.

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A Short-tailed Shearwater from Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan.
October 18, 2025 at 4:56 AM
franceflo.bsky.social
Run into this great cormorant at the Kamo river in Kyoto ( Japan).
Lifer for me 😃
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#birdsofuesky #canon #naturephotography #photographie
Great cormorant , closeup of blue eye and beak colors Great cormorant in river , batting its wing getting ready to take off
September 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
birdpicsandscience.bsky.social
A Black-tailed Gull from Miyakejima, Japan. A very abundant species in the area, but still a really nice bird when seen well! Gulls get too little love.

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A soaring Black-tailed Gull
August 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
birdpicsandscience.bsky.social
An Izu Robin from Miyakejima, Japan. I've kinda fallen in love with island endemics--made a trip to Japan almost entirely for the purposes of seeing these and the other endemics on Miyake.

Miyake was awesome: rainy, chill little island with nice people and great birds.

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An Izu Robin from Miyakejima, Japan. Lovely, cute little endemic species.
July 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
kimr1264.bsky.social
the sound of summer 🌻❤️
#littleterns #breedingseason #birdwatching #beach #birdsofjapan #chiba
May 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
rosemaryetbasil.bsky.social
Egret in flight, toppish left corner. #wildlifejapan #egret #birdsofjapan #wildlifephotography #sreetphotographer
May 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
dustygedge.bsky.social
Here’s a little raw video footage of a few along the Tama River in Tokyo. #birds #birdsofjapan
April 29, 2025 at 4:31 AM
dustygedge.bsky.social
Dusky Thrush - #Tokyo #birdsofjapan #japan - finally getting around to posting pictures of trip there in late January! This is one of the new species I saw. A winter visitor like the Redwing is to our shores. @toritorihkd.bsky.social for you
April 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
birdpicsandscience.bsky.social
A Japanese Accentor from Lake Miyagase, Kanagawa, Japan. One of several Accentors I saw on my trip to Nepal and Tokyo last January. Near-endemic to Japan and a really nice bird to find!

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A Japanese Accentor on a mossy canyon wall.
April 6, 2025 at 5:50 AM
birdpicsandscience.bsky.social
A Chinese Hwamei from Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. This in an introduced species in Japan (and in Taiwan and a few other places), but this was still a life bird for me. They are a laughingthrush, which are one of my favorite taxa of birds.

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A Chinese Hwamei from Yokohama, Japan holding an acorn in its bill.
March 3, 2025 at 3:25 AM
birdwatching.bsky.social
Japanese White Eye in Kyoto, Japan. #birds #nature #birdphotography #birdwatching #birding #birdsofJapan #birdsofBlueSky #bird #whiteeye #japanesewhiteeye
Japanese White Eye
March 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
bcgemma.bsky.social
Meadow Bunting by the Euchi river, Izumi, Kyushu, Japan. #birds #birdsofjapan
Bunting perched on reeds.
February 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
bcgemma.bsky.social
Ural Owl, Hokkaido, Japan. #birds #birding #birdsofjapan
Ural Owl roosting in a tree cavity, Japan.
February 4, 2025 at 5:36 AM
bcgemma.bsky.social
White-tailed Eagle, Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan. #birds #birding #birdsofjapan
White-tailed Eagle taking off from the snow
February 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
mehphew.bsky.social
A pigeon and its buddies hanging out and people-watching.

#birds #birdphotography #pigeons #birdsofjapan #photography #sendai #japan
November 25, 2024 at 8:39 AM