This checklist includes all bird species found in Wajima , based on the best information available at this time. It is based on a wide variety of sources that I collated over many years. I am pleased to offer these checklists as a service to birdwatchers. If you find any error, please do not hesitate to .
The taxonomic order and nomenclature follows Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2). If you prefer to view the list based on a different authority, click on one of the list available below. Globally threatened species (status in red) were identified by Birdlife International in Birdlife Data Zone (species).
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Country or region: Wajima [map]
Other names: 輪島市, Wajima Shi
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Whooper Swan | Cygnus cygnus | |
Bean Goose | Anser fabalis | |
Greater White-fronted Goose | Anser albifrons | |
Lesser White-fronted Goose | Anser erythropus | Rare/Accidental |
Velvet Scoter | Melanitta fusca | |
Black Scoter | Melanitta americana | |
Common Goldeneye | Bucephala clangula | |
Smew | Mergellus albellus | |
Goosander | Mergus merganser | |
Red-breasted Merganser | Mergus serrator | |
Harlequin Duck | Histrionicus histrionicus | |
Common Pochard | Aythya ferina | |
Tufted Duck | Aythya fuligula | |
Greater Scaup | Aythya marila | |
Garganey | Spatula querquedula | |
Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | |
Baikal Teal | Sibirionetta formosa | |
Falcated Duck | Mareca falcata | |
Gadwall | Mareca strepera | |
Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | |
Chinese Spot-billed Duck | Anas zonorhyncha | |
Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | |
Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | |
Common Teal | Anas crecca | |
Mandarin Duck | Aix galericulata | |
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Japanese Quail | Coturnix japonica | |
Chinese Bamboo Partridge | Bambusicola thoracicus | Introduced species |
Copper Pheasant | Syrmaticus soemmerringii | |
Green Pheasant | Phasianus versicolor | Endemic (country/region) |
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Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | |
Red-necked Grebe | Podiceps grisegena | |
Great Crested Grebe | Podiceps cristatus | |
Slavonian Grebe | Podiceps auritus | |
Black-necked Grebe | Podiceps nigricollis | |
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Rock Dove | Columba livia | Introduced species |
Japanese Pigeon | Columba janthina | |
Oriental Turtle Dove | Streptopelia orientalis | |
Red Collared Dove | Streptopelia tranquebarica | Rare/Accidental |
White-bellied Green Pigeon | Treron sieboldii | |
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Grey Nightjar | Caprimulgus indicus | |
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White-throated Needletail | Hirundapus caudacutus | |
Fork-tailed Swift | Apus pacificus | |
House Swift | Apus nipalensis | |
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Chestnut-winged Cuckoo | Clamator coromandus | Rare/Accidental |
Northern Hawk Cuckoo | Hierococcyx hyperythrus | |
Indian Cuckoo | Cuculus micropterus | Rare/Accidental |
Common Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | |
Oriental Cuckoo | Cuculus optatus | |
Lesser Cuckoo | Cuculus poliocephalus | |
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Eastern Water Rail | Rallus indicus | |
Ruddy-breasted Crake | Zapornia fusca | |
Watercock | Gallicrex cinerea | Rare/Accidental |
Common Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
Common Coot | Fulica atra | |
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Hooded Crane | Grus monacha | |
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Red-throated Diver | Gavia stellata | |
Black-throated Diver | Gavia arctica | |
Pacific Loon | Gavia pacifica | |
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Leach's Storm-petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | |
Swinhoe's Storm-petrel | Hydrobates monorhis | |
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Northern Fulmar | Fulmarus glacialis | Rare/Accidental |
Short-tailed Shearwater | Ardenna tenuirostris | |
Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | |
Flesh-footed Shearwater | Ardenna carneipes | |
Streaked Shearwater | Calonectris leucomelas | |
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Oriental White Stork | Ciconia boyciana | |
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Yellow Bittern | Ixobrychus sinensis | |
Schrenck's Bittern | Ixobrychus eurhythmus | |
Japanese Night Heron | Gorsachius goisagi | |
Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
Striated Heron | Butorides striata | |
Chinese Pond Heron | Ardeola bacchus | |
Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
Grey Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | Rare/Accidental |
Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
Intermediate Egret | Ardea intermedia | |
Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
Pacific Reef Egret | Egretta sacra | |
Chinese Egret | Egretta eulophotes | |
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Imperial Crested Ibis | Nipponia nippon | Rare/Accidental |
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Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | Rare/Accidental |
Masked Booby | Sula dactylatra | Rare/Accidental |
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Pelagic Cormorant | Phalacrocorax pelagicus | |
Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | |
Japanese Cormorant | Phalacrocorax capillatus | |
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Eurasian Oystercatcher | Haematopus ostralegus | |
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Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | |
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Grey Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | |
Pacific Golden Plover | Pluvialis fulva | |
Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | |
Long-billed Plover | Charadrius placidus | |
Little Ringed Plover | Charadrius dubius | |
Kentish Plover | Charadrius alexandrinus | |
Lesser Sand Plover | Charadrius mongolus | |
Greater Sand Plover | Charadrius leschenaultii | Rare/Accidental |
Northern Lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | |
Grey-headed Lapwing | Vanellus cinereus | |
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Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
Eurasian Curlew | Numenius arquata | |
Far Eastern Curlew | Numenius madagascariensis | |
Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | |
Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | |
Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
Great Knot | Calidris tenuirostris | Rare/Accidental |
Red Knot | Calidris canutus | |
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | Calidris acuminata | |
Temminck's Stint | Calidris temminckii | |
Long-toed Stint | Calidris subminuta | |
Red-necked Stint | Calidris ruficollis | |
Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
Dunlin | Calidris alpina | |
Eurasian Woodcock | Scolopax rusticola | |
Solitary Snipe | Gallinago solitaria | |
Latham's Snipe | Gallinago hardwickii | |
Pintail Snipe | Gallinago stenura | |
Swinhoe's Snipe | Gallinago megala | |
Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | |
Jack Snipe | Lymnocryptes minimus | Rare/Accidental |
Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | |
Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | |
Grey-tailed Tattler | Tringa brevipes | |
Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | |
Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | |
Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | |
Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | |
Grey Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius | |
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Rhinoceros Auklet | Cerorhinca monocerata | |
Tufted Puffin | Fratercula cirrhata | Rare/Accidental |
Long-billed Murrelet | Brachyramphus perdix | |
Spectacled Guillemot | Cepphus carbo | |
Ancient Murrelet | Synthliboramphus antiquus | |
Japanese Murrelet | Synthliboramphus wumizusume | Breeding endemic |
Common Guillemot | Uria aalge | |
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Long-tailed Skua | Stercorarius longicaudus | |
Pomarine Skua | Stercorarius pomarinus | |
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Black-legged Kittiwake | Rissa tridactyla | |
Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | |
Black-tailed Gull | Larus crassirostris | |
Mew Gull | Larus canus | |
Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | Rare/Accidental |
American Herring Gull | Larus smithsonianus | |
Slaty-backed Gull | Larus schistisagus | |
Glaucous-winged Gull | Larus glaucescens | |
Glaucous Gull | Larus hyperboreus | |
Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | |
Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | Rare/Accidental |
Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
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Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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Oriental Honey Buzzard | Pernis ptilorhynchus | |
Eastern Marsh Harrier | Circus spilonotus | |
Hen Harrier | Circus cyaneus | |
Chinese Sparrowhawk | Accipiter soloensis | |
Japanese Sparrowhawk | Accipiter gularis | |
Besra | Accipiter virgatus | |
Eurasian Sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus | |
Northern Goshawk | Accipiter gentilis | |
White-tailed Sea Eagle | Haliaeetus albicilla | |
Black Kite | Milvus migrans | |
Grey-faced Buzzard | Butastur indicus | |
Japanese Buzzard | Buteo japonicus | |
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Northern Boobook | Ninox japonica | |
Oriental Scops Owl | Otus sunia | |
Collared Scops Owl | Otus bakkamoena | |
Northern Long-eared Owl | Asio otus | |
Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | |
Ural Owl | Strix uralensis | |
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Common Hoopoe | Upupa epops | |
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Northern Wryneck | Jynx torquilla | |
Japanese Woodpecker | Picus awokera | Endemic (country/region) |
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker | Dendrocopos kizuki | |
White-backed Woodpecker | Dendrocopos leucotos | |
Great Spotted Woodpecker | Dendrocopos major | |
Rufous-bellied Woodpecker | Dendrocopos hyperythrus | Rare/Accidental |
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Dollarbird | Eurystomus orientalis | |
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Common Kingfisher | Alcedo atthis | |
Ruddy Kingfisher | Halcyon coromanda | |
Black-capped Kingfisher | Halcyon pileata | |
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Common Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | |
Amur Falcon | Falco amurensis | Rare/Accidental |
Merlin | Falco columbarius | |
Eurasian Hobby | Falco subbuteo | |
Saker Falcon | Falco cherrug | Rare/Accidental |
Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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Fairy Pitta | Pitta nympha | |
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Ashy Minivet | Pericrocotus divaricatus | |
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Black-naped Oriole | Oriolus chinensis | Rare/Accidental |
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Black Drongo | Dicrurus macrocercus | Rare/Accidental |
Ashy Drongo | Dicrurus leucophaeus | Rare/Accidental |
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Tiger Shrike | Lanius tigrinus | |
Bull-headed Shrike | Lanius bucephalus | |
Brown Shrike | Lanius cristatus | |
Red-backed Shrike | Lanius collurio | Rare/Accidental |
Isabelline Shrike | Lanius isabellinus | Rare/Accidental |
Northern Shrike | Lanius borealis | Rare/Accidental |
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Azure-winged Magpie | Cyanopica cyanus | |
Eurasian Jay | Garrulus glandarius | |
Eurasian Nutcracker | Nucifraga caryocatactes | |
Daurian Jackdaw | Corvus dauuricus | |
Rook | Corvus frugilegus | |
Carrion Crow | Corvus corone | |
Large-billed Crow | Corvus macrorhynchos | |
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Japanese Paradise-flycatcher | Terpsiphone atrocaudata | |
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Alpine Accentor | Prunella collaris | |
Japanese Accentor | Prunella rubida | |
Siberian Accentor | Prunella montanella | Rare/Accidental |
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House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | Rare/Accidental |
Russet Sparrow | Passer cinnamomeus | |
Eurasian Tree Sparrow | Passer montanus | |
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Forest Wagtail | Dendronanthus indicus | |
Pechora Pipit | Anthus gustavi | Rare/Accidental |
Tree Pipit | Anthus trivialis | Rare/Accidental |
Olive-backed Pipit | Anthus hodgsoni | |
Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | |
American Pipit | Anthus rubescens | |
Meadow Pipit | Anthus pratensis | Rare/Accidental |
Richard's Pipit | Anthus richardi | |
Blyth's Pipit | Anthus godlewskii | Rare/Accidental |
Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava | |
Grey Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | |
Citrine Wagtail | Motacilla citreola | Rare/Accidental |
Green-headed Wagtail | Motacilla tschutschensis | |
Japanese Pied Wagtail | Motacilla grandis | |
White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | |
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Common Chaffinch | Fringilla coelebs | Rare/Accidental |
Brambling | Fringilla montifringilla | |
Hawfinch | Coccothraustes coccothraustes | |
Yellow-billed Grosbeak | Eophona migratoria | |
Japanese Grosbeak | Eophona personata | |
Common Rosefinch | Erythrina erythrina | Rare/Accidental |
Long-tailed Rosefinch | Carpodacus sibiricus | |
Pallas's Rosefinch | Carpodacus roseus | |
Eurasian Bullfinch | Pyrrhula pyrrhula | |
Asian Rosy Finch | Leucosticte arctoa | |
Grey-capped Greenfinch | Chloris sinica | |
Common Redpoll | Acanthis flammea | |
Arctic Redpoll | Acanthis hornemanni | Rare/Accidental |
Red Crossbill | Loxia curvirostra | |
White-winged Crossbill | Loxia leucoptera | Rare/Accidental |
European Goldfinch | Carduelis carduelis | Introduced species |
Eurasian Siskin | Spinus spinus | |
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Lapland Longspur | Calcarius lapponicus | |
Snow Bunting | Plectrophenax nivalis | Rare/Accidental |
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Red-headed Bunting | Granativora bruniceps | Rare/Accidental |
Black-headed Bunting | Granativora melanocephala | Rare/Accidental |
Chestnut-eared Bunting | Emberiza fucata | |
Meadow Bunting | Emberiza cioides | |
Ortolan Bunting | Emberiza hortulana | Rare/Accidental |
Pine Bunting | Emberiza leucocephalos | |
Yellow-throated Bunting | Schoeniclus elegans | |
Japanese Reed Bunting | Schoeniclus yessoensis | |
Pallas's Reed Bunting | Schoeniclus pallasi | Rare/Accidental |
Eurasian Reed Bunting | Schoeniclus schoeniclus | |
Black-faced Bunting | Schoeniclus spodocephala | |
Japanese Yellow Bunting | Schoeniclus sulphuratus | Breeding endemic |
Rustic Bunting | Schoeniclus rusticus | |
Chestnut Bunting | Schoeniclus rutilus | |
Little Bunting | Schoeniclus pusillus | |
Yellow-breasted Bunting | Schoeniclus aureolus | |
Yellow-browed Bunting | Schoeniclus chrysophrys | |
Grey Bunting | Schoeniclus variabilis | |
Tristram's Bunting | Schoeniclus tristrami | |
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White-crowned Sparrow | Zonotrichia leucophrys | Rare/Accidental |
Savannah Sparrow | Passerculus sandwichensis | Rare/Accidental |
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Yellow Warbler | Setophaga petechia | Rare/Accidental |
Wilson's Warbler | Cardellina pusilla | Rare/Accidental |
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Coal Tit | Periparus ater | |
Varied Tit | Sittiparus varius | |
Willow Tit | Poecile montanus | |
Cinereous Tit | Parus cinereus | |
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Asian Short-toed Lark | Alaudala cheleensis | Rare/Accidental |
Greater Short-toed Lark | Calandrella brachydactyla | Rare/Accidental |
Eurasian Sky Lark | Alauda arvensis | Rare/Accidental |
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Bearded Reedling | Panurus biarmicus | Rare/Accidental |
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Zitting Cisticola | Cisticola juncidis | |
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Stepanyan's Warbler | Locustella amnicola | Rare/Accidental |
Rusty-rumped Warbler | Locustella certhiola | Rare/Accidental |
Middendorff's Warbler | Locustella ochotensis | |
Styan's Warbler | Locustella pleskei | |
Lanceolated Warbler | Locustella lanceolata | |
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Booted Warbler | Iduna caligata | Rare/Accidental |
Icterine Warbler | Hippolais icterina | Rare/Accidental |
Black-browed Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus bistrigiceps | |
Paddyfield Warbler | Acrocephalus agricola | Rare/Accidental |
Oriental Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus orientalis | |
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Asian House Martin | Delichon dasypus | |
Red-rumped Swallow | Cecropis daurica | |
Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
Sand Martin | Riparia riparia | |
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Brown-eared Bulbul | Hypsipetes amaurotis | |
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Wood Warbler | Rhadina sibilatrix | Rare/Accidental |
Yellow-browed Warbler | Abrornis inornatus | |
Pallas's Leaf Warbler | Abrornis proregulus | Rare/Accidental |
Dusky Warbler | Phylloscopus fuscatus | |
Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | Rare/Accidental |
Common Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | Rare/Accidental |
Alpine Leaf Warbler | Phylloscopus occisinensis | Rare/Accidental |
Tickell's Leaf Warbler | Phylloscopus affinis | Rare/Accidental |
Radde's Warbler | Phylloscopus schwarzi | Rare/Accidental |
Eastern Crowned Leaf Warbler | Seicercus coronatus | |
Two-barred Leaf Warbler | Seicercus plumbeitarsus | Rare/Accidental |
Arctic Warbler | Seicercus borealis | |
Kamtschatka Leaf Warbler | Seicercus examinandus | |
Japanese Leaf Warbler | Seicercus xanthodryas | |
Sakhalin Leaf Warbler | Seicercus borealoides | |
Pale-legged Leaf Warbler | Seicercus tenellipes | Rare/Accidental |
Sulphur-breasted Leaf Warbler | Seicercus ricketti | Rare/Accidental |
Ticehurst's Leaf Warbler | Seicercus claudiae | Rare/Accidental |
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Asian Stubtail | Urosphena squameiceps | |
Japanese Bush Warbler | Horornis diphone | |
Manchurian Bush Warbler | Horornis canturians | |
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Long-tailed Tit | Aegithalos caudatus | |
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Lesser Whitethroat | Curruca curruca | Rare/Accidental |
Common Whitethroat | Curruca communis | Rare/Accidental |
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Chestnut-flanked White-eye | Zosterops erythropleurus | Rare/Accidental |
Japanese White-eye | Zosterops japonicus | |
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Goldcrest | Regulus regulus | |
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Bohemian Waxwing | Bombycilla garrulus | |
Japanese Waxwing | Bombycilla japonica | |
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Eurasian Treecreeper | Certhia familiaris | |
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Eurasian Nuthatch | Sitta europaea | |
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Eurasian Wren | Troglodytes troglodytes | |
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Common Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | |
Rosy Starling | Pastor roseus | Rare/Accidental |
Purple-backed Starling | Agropsar sturninus | Rare/Accidental |
Chestnut-cheeked Starling | Agropsar philippensis | |
White-shouldered Starling | Sturnia sinensis | |
Red-billed Starling | Spodiopsar sericeus | Rare/Accidental |
White-cheeked Starling | Spodiopsar cineraceus | |
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Brown Dipper | Cinclus pallasii | |
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Spotted Flycatcher | Muscicapa striata | Rare/Accidental |
Grey-streaked Flycatcher | Muscicapa griseisticta | |
Dark-sided Flycatcher | Muscicapa sibirica | |
Asian Brown Flycatcher | Muscicapa dauurica | |
Blue-and-white Flycatcher | Cyanoptila cyanomelana | |
White-browed Shortwing | Brachypteryx montana | Introduced species |
Rufous-tailed Robin | Larvivora sibilans | |
Japanese Robin | Larvivora akahige | |
Siberian Blue Robin | Larvivora cyane | |
Bluethroat | Luscinia svecica | |
Siberian Rubythroat | Calliope calliope | |
Red-flanked Bluetail | Tarsiger cyanurus | |
Red-breasted Flycatcher | Ficedula parva | Rare/Accidental |
Taiga Flycatcher | Ficedula albicilla | |
European Pied Flycatcher | Ficedula hypoleuca | Rare/Accidental |
Mugimaki Flycatcher | Ficedula mugimaki | |
Narcissus Flycatcher | Ficedula narcissina | |
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher | Ficedula zanthopygia | |
Common Redstart | Phoenicurus phoenicurus | Rare/Accidental |
Black Redstart | Phoenicurus ochruros | Rare/Accidental |
Daurian Redstart | Phoenicurus auroreus | |
White-throated Rock Thrush | Monticola gularis | Rare/Accidental |
Blue Rock Thrush | Monticola solitarius | |
Whinchat | Saxicola rubetra | Rare/Accidental |
Eastern Stonechat | Saxicola maurus | |
Grey Bush Chat | Saxicola ferreus | Rare/Accidental |
Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | Rare/Accidental |
Isabelline Wheatear | Oenanthe isabellina | Rare/Accidental |
Desert Wheatear | Oenanthe deserti | Rare/Accidental |
Black-eared Wheatear | Oenanthe hispanica | Rare/Accidental |
Pied Wheatear | Oenanthe pleschanka | Rare/Accidental |
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White's Thrush | Zoothera aurea | |
Scaly Thrush | Zoothera dauma | |
Gray-cheeked Thrush | Catharus minimus | Rare/Accidental |
Siberian Thrush | Geokichla sibirica | |
Eastern Blackbird | Turdus mandarinus | Rare/Accidental |
Japanese Thrush | Turdus cardis | |
Grey-backed Thrush | Turdus hortulorum | Rare/Accidental |
Eyebrowed Thrush | Turdus obscurus | |
Brown-headed Thrush | Turdus chrysolaus | |
Pale Thrush | Turdus pallidus | |
Naumann's Thrush | Turdus naumanni | Rare/Accidental |
Dusky Thrush | Turdus eunomus | |
Red-throated Thrush | Turdus ruficollis |
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