This checklist includes all bird species found in Kin , 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: Kin [map]
Other names: 金武町
Description: Kunigami (District)
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Swan Goose | Anser cygnoid | Rare/Accidental |
Bean Goose | Anser fabalis | Rare/Accidental |
Greater White-fronted Goose | Anser albifrons | Rare/Accidental |
Goosander | Mergus merganser | Rare/Accidental |
Common Shelduck | Tadorna tadorna | Rare/Accidental |
Ruddy Shelduck | Tadorna ferruginea | Rare/Accidental |
Common Pochard | Aythya ferina | |
Tufted Duck | Aythya fuligula | |
Greater Scaup | Aythya marila | Rare/Accidental |
Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis | Rare/Accidental |
Garganey | Spatula querquedula | |
Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | |
Baikal Teal | Sibirionetta formosa | Rare/Accidental |
Falcated Duck | Mareca falcata | |
Gadwall | Mareca strepera | |
Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | |
American Wigeon | Mareca americana | Rare/Accidental |
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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Indian Peafowl | Pavo cristatus | Introduced species |
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Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | |
Great Crested Grebe | Podiceps cristatus | Rare/Accidental |
Black-necked Grebe | Podiceps nigricollis | Rare/Accidental |
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Rock Dove | Columba livia | Introduced species |
Japanese Pigeon | Columba janthina | |
Oriental Turtle Dove | Streptopelia orientalis | |
Eurasian Collared Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | |
Red Collared Dove | Streptopelia tranquebarica | Rare/Accidental |
Whistling Green Pigeon | Treron formosae | |
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Fork-tailed Swift | Apus pacificus | |
House Swift | Apus nipalensis | |
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Common Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | |
Lesser Cuckoo | Cuculus poliocephalus | |
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Eastern Water Rail | Rallus indicus | |
Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | Rare/Accidental |
Ruddy-breasted Crake | Zapornia fusca | Rare/Accidental |
Baillon's Crake | Zapornia pusilla | Rare/Accidental |
White-breasted Waterhen | Amaurornis phoenicurus | |
Watercock | Gallicrex cinerea | |
Common Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
Common Coot | Fulica atra | |
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Hooded Crane | Grus monacha | Rare/Accidental |
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Yellow Bittern | Ixobrychus sinensis | |
Cinnamon Bittern | Ixobrychus cinnamomeus | |
Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
Striated Heron | Butorides striata | |
Chinese Pond Heron | Ardeola bacchus | |
Javan Pond Heron | Ardeola speciosa | Rare/Accidental |
Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
Grey Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | |
Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
Intermediate Egret | Ardea intermedia | |
Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
Pacific Reef Egret | Egretta sacra | |
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Eurasian Spoonbill | Platalea leucorodia | |
Black-faced Spoonbill | Platalea minor | |
Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | Rare/Accidental |
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Great Frigatebird | Fregata minor | Rare/Accidental |
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Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | |
Japanese Cormorant | Phalacrocorax capillatus | |
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Pied Avocet | Recurvirostra avosetta | Rare/Accidental |
Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | |
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Grey Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | |
Eurasian Golden Plover | Pluvialis apricaria | Rare/Accidental |
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 | |
Northern Lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | |
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 | |
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 | |
Ruff | Calidris pugnax | |
Broad-billed Sandpiper | Calidris falcinellus | |
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | Calidris acuminata | |
Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | |
Temminck's Stint | Calidris temminckii | |
Long-toed Stint | Calidris subminuta | |
Red-necked Stint | Calidris ruficollis | |
Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
Dunlin | Calidris alpina | |
Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | Rare/Accidental |
Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Calidris subruficollis | Rare/Accidental |
Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | Rare/Accidental |
Short-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus griseus | Rare/Accidental |
Long-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus scolopaceus | Rare/Accidental |
Eurasian Woodcock | Scolopax rusticola | |
Latham's Snipe | Gallinago hardwickii | Rare/Accidental |
Pintail Snipe | Gallinago stenura | Rare/Accidental |
Swinhoe's Snipe | Gallinago megala | Rare/Accidental |
Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | Rare/Accidental |
Jack Snipe | Lymnocryptes minimus | Rare/Accidental |
Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | |
Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | |
Grey-tailed Tattler | Tringa brevipes | |
Spotted Redshank | Tringa erythropus | Rare/Accidental |
Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | |
Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | |
Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | |
Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | Rare/Accidental |
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Barred Buttonquail | Turnix suscitator | |
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Oriental Pratincole | Glareola maldivarum | |
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Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | |
Saunders's Gull | Saundersilarus saundersi | |
Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | |
Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | Rare/Accidental |
Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | |
White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | Rare/Accidental |
Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | |
Black-naped Tern | Sterna sumatrana | |
Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | Rare/Accidental |
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Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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Oriental Honey Buzzard | Pernis ptilorhynchus | Rare/Accidental |
Crested Serpent Eagle | Spilornis cheela | |
Chinese Sparrowhawk | Accipiter soloensis | |
Japanese Sparrowhawk | Accipiter gularis | |
Besra | Accipiter virgatus | |
Eurasian Sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus | |
Black Kite | Milvus migrans | |
Grey-faced Buzzard | Butastur indicus | |
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Northern Boobook | Ninox japonica | |
Elegant Scops Owl | Otus elegans | |
Northern Long-eared Owl | Asio otus | |
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Northern Wryneck | Jynx torquilla | Rare/Accidental |
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker | Dendrocopos kizuki | |
White-backed Woodpecker | Dendrocopos leucotos | |
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Common Kingfisher | Alcedo atthis | |
Ruddy Kingfisher | Halcyon coromanda | |
Black-capped Kingfisher | Halcyon pileata | Rare/Accidental |
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Common Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | |
Merlin | Falco columbarius | Rare/Accidental |
Eurasian Hobby | Falco subbuteo | |
Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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Ashy Minivet | Pericrocotus divaricatus | |
Japanese Minivet | Pericrocotus tegimae | Endemic (country/region) |
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Black Drongo | Dicrurus macrocercus | Rare/Accidental |
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Bull-headed Shrike | Lanius bucephalus | |
Brown Shrike | Lanius cristatus | |
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Rook | Corvus frugilegus | Rare/Accidental |
Carrion Crow | Corvus corone | |
Large-billed Crow | Corvus macrorhynchos | |
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Japanese Paradise-flycatcher | Terpsiphone atrocaudata | |
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White-rumped Munia | Lonchura striata | Rare/Accidental |
Scaly-breasted Munia | Lonchura punctulata | Introduced species |
Black-headed Munia | Lonchura malacca | |
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Russet Sparrow | Passer cinnamomeus | |
Eurasian Tree Sparrow | Passer montanus | |
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Forest Wagtail | Dendronanthus indicus | |
Pechora Pipit | Anthus gustavi | Rare/Accidental |
Olive-backed Pipit | Anthus hodgsoni | |
Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | |
American Pipit | Anthus rubescens | |
Grey Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | |
Citrine Wagtail | Motacilla citreola | Rare/Accidental |
Green-headed Wagtail | Motacilla tschutschensis | |
White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | |
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Grey-capped Greenfinch | Chloris sinica | |
Eurasian Siskin | Spinus spinus | |
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Chestnut-eared Bunting | Emberiza fucata | Rare/Accidental |
Meadow Bunting | Emberiza cioides | |
Black-faced Bunting | Schoeniclus spodocephala | |
Rustic Bunting | Schoeniclus rusticus | Rare/Accidental |
Little Bunting | Schoeniclus pusillus | Rare/Accidental |
Yellow-breasted Bunting | Schoeniclus aureolus | |
Grey Bunting | Schoeniclus variabilis | |
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Savannah Sparrow | Passerculus sandwichensis | Rare/Accidental |
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Varied Tit | Sittiparus varius | |
Cinereous Tit | Parus cinereus | |
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Bimaculated Lark | Melanocorypha bimaculata | Rare/Accidental |
Eurasian Sky Lark | Alauda arvensis | |
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Zitting Cisticola | Cisticola juncidis | |
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Lanceolated Warbler | Locustella lanceolata | Rare/Accidental |
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Oriental Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus orientalis | |
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Asian House Martin | Delichon dasypus | |
Red-rumped Swallow | Cecropis daurica | |
Pacific Swallow | Hirundo tahitica | |
Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
Sand Martin | Riparia riparia | |
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Brown-eared Bulbul | Hypsipetes amaurotis | |
Styan's Bulbul | Pycnonotus taivanus | |
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Common Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | Rare/Accidental |
Japanese Leaf Warbler | Seicercus xanthodryas | Rare/Accidental |
Sakhalin Leaf Warbler | Seicercus borealoides | |
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Japanese Bush Warbler | Horornis diphone | |
Manchurian Bush Warbler | Horornis canturians | |
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Japanese White-eye | Zosterops japonicus | |
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Goldcrest | Regulus regulus | |
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Japanese Waxwing | Bombycilla japonica | Rare/Accidental |
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Common Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | |
Chestnut-cheeked Starling | Agropsar philippensis | |
White-shouldered Starling | Sturnia sinensis | |
Red-billed Starling | Spodiopsar sericeus | |
White-cheeked Starling | Spodiopsar cineraceus | |
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Grey-streaked Flycatcher | Muscicapa griseisticta | |
Dark-sided Flycatcher | Muscicapa sibirica | |
Ryukyu Robin | Larvivora komadori | |
Bluethroat | Luscinia svecica | Rare/Accidental |
Siberian Rubythroat | Calliope calliope | |
Narcissus Flycatcher | Ficedula narcissina | |
Daurian Redstart | Phoenicurus auroreus | |
Blue Rock Thrush | Monticola solitarius | |
Eastern Stonechat | Saxicola maurus | |
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White's Thrush | Zoothera aurea | |
Redwing | Turdus iliacus | 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 |
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