This checklist includes all bird species found in Shiga , 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: Shiga [map]
Other names: Siga, 滋賀県
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Mute Swan | Cygnus olor | Introduced species |
Tundra Swan | Cygnus columbianus | Rare/Accidental |
Whooper Swan | Cygnus cygnus | |
Brent Goose | Branta bernicla | |
Cackling Goose | Branta hutchinsii | Rare/Accidental |
Snow Goose | Anser caerulescens | Rare/Accidental |
Greylag Goose | Anser anser | Rare/Accidental |
Swan Goose | Anser cygnoid | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
Bean Goose | Anser fabalis | |
Greater White-fronted Goose | Anser albifrons | |
Lesser White-fronted Goose | Anser erythropus | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
Long-tailed Duck | Clangula hyemalis | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
Velvet Scoter | Melanitta fusca | |
Black Scoter | Melanitta americana | Near-threatened |
Common Goldeneye | Bucephala clangula | |
Smew | Mergellus albellus | |
Goosander | Mergus merganser | |
Scaly-sided Merganser | Mergus squamatus | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
Red-breasted Merganser | Mergus serrator | |
Harlequin Duck | Histrionicus histrionicus | |
Common Shelduck | Tadorna tadorna | Rare/Accidental |
Ruddy Shelduck | Tadorna ferruginea | Rare/Accidental |
Red-crested Pochard | Netta rufina | Rare/Accidental |
Common Pochard | Aythya ferina | Vulnerable |
Canvasback | Aythya valisineria | Rare/Accidental |
Baer's Pochard | Aythya baeri | Rare/Accidental Critically endangered |
Ferruginous Duck | Aythya nyroca | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Ring-necked Duck | Aythya collaris | Rare/Accidental |
Tufted Duck | Aythya fuligula | |
Greater Scaup | Aythya marila | |
Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis | Rare/Accidental |
Garganey | Spatula querquedula | |
Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | |
Baikal Teal | Sibirionetta formosa | |
Falcated Duck | Mareca falcata | Near-threatened |
Gadwall | Mareca strepera | |
Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | |
American Wigeon | Mareca americana | |
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 | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Chinese Bamboo Partridge | Bambusicola thoracicus | Introduced species |
Copper Pheasant | Syrmaticus soemmerringii | Endemic (country/region) Near-threatened |
Green Pheasant | Phasianus versicolor | Endemic (country/region) |
Rock Ptarmigan | Lagopus muta | |
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Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | |
Red-necked Grebe | Podiceps grisegena | Rare/Accidental |
Great Crested Grebe | Podiceps cristatus | |
Slavonian Grebe | Podiceps auritus | Vulnerable |
Black-necked Grebe | Podiceps nigricollis | |
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Rock Dove | Columba livia | Introduced species |
Oriental Turtle Dove | Streptopelia orientalis | |
White-bellied Green Pigeon | Treron sieboldii | |
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Pallas's Sandgrouse | Syrrhaptes paradoxus | Rare/Accidental |
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Red-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon rubricauda | Rare/Accidental |
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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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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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Swinhoe's Rail | Coturnicops exquisitus | Vulnerable |
Eastern Water Rail | Rallus indicus | |
Ruddy-breasted Crake | Zapornia fusca | |
Baillon's Crake | Zapornia pusilla | Rare/Accidental |
White-breasted Waterhen | Amaurornis phoenicurus | Rare/Accidental |
Watercock | Gallicrex cinerea | Rare/Accidental |
Common Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
Common Coot | Fulica atra | |
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Sandhill Crane | Antigone canadensis | Rare/Accidental |
White-naped Crane | Antigone vipio | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
Common Crane | Grus grus | Rare/Accidental |
Hooded Crane | Grus monacha | Vulnerable |
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Red-throated Diver | Gavia stellata | Rare/Accidental |
Black-throated Diver | Gavia arctica | |
Pacific Loon | Gavia pacifica | |
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Swinhoe's Storm-petrel | Hydrobates monorhis | Near-threatened |
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Bonin Petrel | Pterodroma hypoleuca | Rare/Accidental |
Flesh-footed Shearwater | Ardenna carneipes | Near-threatened |
Streaked Shearwater | Calonectris leucomelas | Near-threatened |
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Oriental White Stork | Ciconia boyciana | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
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Eurasian Bittern | Botaurus stellaris | |
Yellow Bittern | Ixobrychus sinensis | |
Schrenck's Bittern | Ixobrychus eurhythmus | |
Japanese Night Heron | Gorsachius goisagi | Vulnerable |
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 | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
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Black-headed Ibis | Threskiornis melanocephalus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Eurasian Spoonbill | Platalea leucorodia | |
Black-faced Spoonbill | Platalea minor | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
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Lesser Frigatebird | Fregata ariel | Rare/Accidental |
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Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | 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 | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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Pied Avocet | Recurvirostra avosetta | Rare/Accidental |
Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | |
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Grey Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | |
Pacific Golden Plover | Pluvialis fulva | |
Long-billed Plover | Charadrius placidus | |
Little Ringed Plover | Charadrius dubius | |
Kentish Plover | Charadrius alexandrinus | |
Lesser Sand Plover | Charadrius mongolus | |
Northern Lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Grey-headed Lapwing | Vanellus cinereus | |
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Greater Painted-snipe | Rostratula benghalensis | |
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Pheasant-tailed Jacana | Hydrophasianus chirurgus | Rare/Accidental |
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Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
Little Curlew | Numenius minutus | Rare/Accidental |
Eurasian Curlew | Numenius arquata | Near-threatened |
Far Eastern Curlew | Numenius madagascariensis | Endangered |
Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | Near-threatened |
Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | Near-threatened |
Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
Great Knot | Calidris tenuirostris | Endangered |
Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Ruff | Calidris pugnax | |
Broad-billed Sandpiper | Calidris falcinellus | Rare/Accidental |
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | Calidris acuminata | Vulnerable |
Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Temminck's Stint | Calidris temminckii | |
Long-toed Stint | Calidris subminuta | |
Spoon-billed Sandpiper | Calidris pygmaea | Rare/Accidental Critically endangered |
Red-necked Stint | Calidris ruficollis | Near-threatened |
Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
Dunlin | Calidris alpina | |
Little Stint | Calidris minuta | Rare/Accidental |
Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | Rare/Accidental |
Long-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus scolopaceus | Rare/Accidental |
Eurasian Woodcock | Scolopax rusticola | |
Solitary Snipe | Gallinago solitaria | |
Latham's Snipe | Gallinago hardwickii | Near-threatened |
Pintail Snipe | Gallinago stenura | Rare/Accidental |
Swinhoe's Snipe | Gallinago megala | |
Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | |
Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | |
Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | |
Grey-tailed Tattler | Tringa brevipes | Near-threatened |
Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | Rare/Accidental |
Spotted Redshank | Tringa erythropus | |
Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | |
Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | |
Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | |
Nordmann's Greenshank | Tringa guttifer | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | |
Grey Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius | Rare/Accidental |
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Oriental Pratincole | Glareola maldivarum | |
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Long-billed Murrelet | Brachyramphus perdix | Breeding endemic Near-threatened |
Ancient Murrelet | Synthliboramphus antiquus | Rare/Accidental |
Japanese Murrelet | Synthliboramphus wumizusume | Breeding endemic Vulnerable |
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Long-tailed Skua | Stercorarius longicaudus | Rare/Accidental |
Arctic Skua | Stercorarius parasiticus | Rare/Accidental |
Pomarine Skua | Stercorarius pomarinus | Rare/Accidental |
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Brown Noddy | Anous stolidus | Rare/Accidental |
Black-legged Kittiwake | Rissa tridactyla | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | |
Saunders's Gull | Saundersilarus saundersi | Vulnerable |
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 | |
Aleutian Tern | Onychoprion aleuticus | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | Rare/Accidental |
Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | |
Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | Rare/Accidental |
Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | Rare/Accidental |
Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | Rare/Accidental |
White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | Rare/Accidental |
Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
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Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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Oriental Honey Buzzard | Pernis ptilorhynchus | |
Mountain Hawk Eagle | Nisaetus nipalensis | Near-threatened |
Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | |
Eastern Marsh Harrier | Circus spilonotus | |
Hen Harrier | Circus cyaneus | |
Pied Harrier | Circus melanoleucos | Rare/Accidental |
Chinese Sparrowhawk | Accipiter soloensis | Rare/Accidental |
Japanese Sparrowhawk | Accipiter gularis | |
Besra | Accipiter virgatus | |
Eurasian Sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus | |
Northern Goshawk | Accipiter gentilis | |
White-tailed Sea Eagle | Haliaeetus albicilla | |
Steller's Sea Eagle | Haliaeetus pelagicus | Vulnerable |
Black Kite | Milvus migrans | |
Grey-faced Buzzard | Butastur indicus | |
Rough-legged Buzzard | Buteo lagopus | Rare/Accidental |
Japanese Buzzard | Buteo japonicus | |
Upland Buzzard | Buteo hemilasius | Rare/Accidental |
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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 | Rare/Accidental |
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Northern Wryneck | Jynx torquilla | |
Japanese Woodpecker | Picus awokera | Endemic (country/region) |
Black Woodpecker | Dryocopus martius | |
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker | Dendrocopos kizuki | |
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | Dendrocopos minor | Rare/Accidental |
White-backed Woodpecker | Dendrocopos leucotos | |
Great Spotted Woodpecker | Dendrocopos major | |
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Dollarbird | Eurystomus orientalis | Rare/Accidental |
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Common Kingfisher | Alcedo atthis | |
Crested Kingfisher | Megaceryle lugubris | |
Ruddy Kingfisher | Halcyon coromanda | |
Black-capped Kingfisher | Halcyon pileata | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
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Lesser Kestrel | Falco naumanni | Rare/Accidental |
Common Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | |
Amur Falcon | Falco amurensis | Rare/Accidental |
Merlin | Falco columbarius | |
Eurasian Hobby | Falco subbuteo | |
Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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Fairy Pitta | Pitta nympha | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
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Ashy Minivet | Pericrocotus divaricatus | |
Japanese Minivet | Pericrocotus tegimae | Endemic (country/region) |
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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 | |
Chinese Grey Shrike | Lanius sphenocercus | Rare/Accidental |
Northern Shrike | Lanius borealis | Rare/Accidental |
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Azure-winged Magpie | Cyanopica cyanus | |
Eurasian Jay | Garrulus glandarius | |
Eurasian Magpie | Pica pica | Rare/Accidental |
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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Red Avadavat | Amandava amandava | |
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Russet Sparrow | Passer cinnamomeus | |
Eurasian Tree Sparrow | Passer montanus | |
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Forest Wagtail | Dendronanthus indicus | |
Olive-backed Pipit | Anthus hodgsoni | |
Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | Rare/Accidental |
American Pipit | Anthus rubescens | |
Meadow Pipit | Anthus pratensis | Rare/Accidental |
Richard's Pipit | Anthus richardi | |
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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Brambling | Fringilla montifringilla | |
Hawfinch | Coccothraustes coccothraustes | |
Yellow-billed Grosbeak | Eophona migratoria | |
Japanese Grosbeak | Eophona personata | |
Long-tailed Rosefinch | Carpodacus sibiricus | |
Pallas's Rosefinch | Carpodacus roseus | Rare/Accidental |
Pine Grosbeak | Pinicola enucleator | Rare/Accidental |
Eurasian Bullfinch | Pyrrhula pyrrhula | |
Asian Rosy Finch | Leucosticte arctoa | |
Grey-capped Greenfinch | Chloris sinica | |
Common Redpoll | Acanthis flammea | |
Red Crossbill | Loxia curvirostra | |
White-winged Crossbill | Loxia leucoptera | Rare/Accidental |
Eurasian Siskin | Spinus spinus | |
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Lapland Longspur | Calcarius lapponicus | Rare/Accidental |
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Chestnut-eared Bunting | Emberiza fucata | |
Meadow Bunting | Emberiza cioides | |
Pine Bunting | Emberiza leucocephalos | Rare/Accidental |
Yellow-throated Bunting | Schoeniclus elegans | |
Japanese Reed Bunting | Schoeniclus yessoensis | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Pallas's Reed Bunting | Schoeniclus pallasi | Rare/Accidental |
Eurasian Reed Bunting | Schoeniclus schoeniclus | |
Black-faced Bunting | Schoeniclus spodocephala | |
Japanese Yellow Bunting | Schoeniclus sulphuratus | |
Rustic Bunting | Schoeniclus rusticus | Vulnerable |
Little Bunting | Schoeniclus pusillus | Rare/Accidental |
Grey Bunting | Schoeniclus variabilis | |
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Coal Tit | Periparus ater | |
Varied Tit | Sittiparus varius | |
Willow Tit | Poecile montanus | |
Cinereous Tit | Parus cinereus | |
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Eastern Penduline Tit | Remiz consobrinus | |
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Asian Short-toed Lark | Alaudala cheleensis | Rare/Accidental |
Eurasian Sky Lark | Alauda arvensis | |
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Zitting Cisticola | Cisticola juncidis | |
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Stepanyan's Warbler | Locustella amnicola | Rare/Accidental |
Japanese Swamp Warbler | Locustella pryeri | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Middendorff's Warbler | Locustella ochotensis | |
Lanceolated Warbler | Locustella lanceolata | Rare/Accidental |
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Black-browed Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus bistrigiceps | |
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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Yellow-browed Warbler | Abrornis inornatus | |
Dusky Warbler | Phylloscopus fuscatus | Rare/Accidental |
Eastern Crowned Leaf Warbler | Seicercus coronatus | |
Arctic Warbler | Seicercus borealis | |
Kamtschatka Leaf Warbler | Seicercus examinandus | Rare/Accidental |
Japanese Leaf Warbler | Seicercus xanthodryas | |
Sakhalin Leaf Warbler | Seicercus borealoides | |
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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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Japanese White-eye | Zosterops japonicus | |
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Melodious Laughing-thrush | Garrulax canorus | Introduced species |
Red-billed Leiothrix | Leiothrix lutea | Introduced species |
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Goldcrest | Regulus regulus | |
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Bohemian Waxwing | Bombycilla garrulus | |
Japanese Waxwing | Bombycilla japonica | Near-threatened |
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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 | Rare/Accidental |
Purple-backed Starling | Agropsar sturninus | Rare/Accidental |
Chestnut-cheeked Starling | Agropsar philippensis | |
Asian Pied Starling | Gracupica contra | Introduced species |
White-shouldered Starling | Sturnia sinensis | Rare/Accidental |
Red-billed Starling | Spodiopsar sericeus | Rare/Accidental |
White-cheeked Starling | Spodiopsar cineraceus | |
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Brown Dipper | Cinclus pallasii | |
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Grey-streaked Flycatcher | Muscicapa griseisticta | |
Dark-sided Flycatcher | Muscicapa sibirica | |
Asian Brown Flycatcher | Muscicapa dauurica | |
Blue-and-white Flycatcher | Cyanoptila cyanomelana | |
Rufous-tailed Robin | Larvivora sibilans | Rare/Accidental |
Japanese Robin | Larvivora akahige | |
Siberian Blue Robin | Larvivora cyane | |
Bluethroat | Luscinia svecica | Rare/Accidental |
Siberian Rubythroat | Calliope calliope | |
Red-flanked Bluetail | Tarsiger cyanurus | |
Red-breasted Flycatcher | Ficedula parva | Rare/Accidental |
Taiga Flycatcher | Ficedula albicilla | Rare/Accidental |
Mugimaki Flycatcher | Ficedula mugimaki | |
Narcissus Flycatcher | Ficedula narcissina | |
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher | Ficedula zanthopygia | Rare/Accidental |
Daurian Redstart | Phoenicurus auroreus | |
Blue Rock Thrush | Monticola solitarius | |
Eastern Stonechat | Saxicola maurus | |
Desert Wheatear | Oenanthe deserti | Rare/Accidental |
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White's Thrush | Zoothera aurea | |
Siberian Thrush | Geokichla sibirica | |
Redwing | Turdus iliacus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Japanese Thrush | Turdus cardis | |
Eyebrowed Thrush | Turdus obscurus | |
Brown-headed Thrush | Turdus chrysolaus | |
Pale Thrush | Turdus pallidus | |
Fieldfare | Turdus pilaris | Rare/Accidental |
Naumann's Thrush | Turdus naumanni | Rare/Accidental |
Dusky Thrush | Turdus eunomus | |
Black-throated Thrush | Turdus atrogularis | Rare/Accidental |
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