This past Spring while walking the Chugoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage I took a walk along the Japan Sea coast of Yamaguchi, It's a particularly fine stretch of coast with azure seas, outcroppings and cliffs, small islands and a lot of small fishing villages. Here are some of the birds I saw. The first is a heron. Sagi in Japanese, maybe its a Grey heron, maybe a Great Blue......
Lots of cormorants. I am guessing that they are Temmink's Cormorants, the most common kind, known as Umi-u in Japanese, though there are some other species which visit during migration. The difference among the onbes in the photo may be due to age and gender.
Lots of Kites, Black-eared Kite being the common species here. Known as Tombi in Japanese.
More cormorants.
This is, I believe, a Blue Rock Thrush, but I have no idea what it is called in Japanese.
I would like to see this Japan Sea coast of Yamaguch, really.
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Thanks for sharing
Blue Rock Thrush is called Isohiodori (イソヒヨドリ) in Japan. I will attempt to paste a handy link: http://www.okinawa-kaeru.net/wild/bird/isohiyodori-2.html
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Mike
Thanks Mike!
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