GUIDED BIRDWATCHING TOUR
We'll drive you around Ishigaki Island to wherever the birds are showing best that day. Observation is mostly from inside the vehicle, and we keep it to a maximum of 3 guests so everyone can take their time.
久しぶりにオニアジサシ。1羽だけの飛来でした。
ユリカモメは3羽が田んぼに入りました。八重山では定期的に入るカモメの仲間といえばユリカモメとズグロカモメぐらいです。
An adult winter-plumage Caspian Tern resting in a rice paddy. For some reason this paddy often attracts Caspian Terns.
Black-headed Gull, adult, winter plumage. Beautiful.
Black-headed Gull, first-winter.
Also in first-winter plumage, but with more juvenile feathers retained than the individual above.
石垣島で越冬中のシギとチドリの紹介。
南の島ならではのアカアシシギは数羽の小さな群れ、一番数の多いセイタカシギは十数羽から二十数羽の群れが複数箇所、目立ちませんがタシギも多く越冬中で朝方や夕方は姿を現します。アオアシシギやクサシギ、イソシギあたりも少数が滞在中で、きょうはハマシギも1羽だけ発見しました。
今季はタゲリが多く、十数羽が越冬中です。コチドリも絶賛越冬中。
Common Redshank — the quintessential bird of Okinawa in winter. First-winter plumage.
Northern Lapwing, juvenile. Beautiful metallic sheen.
Common Snipe. Moulting from juvenile into first-winter plumage.
Also a Common Snipe moulting from juvenile into first-winter plumage.
Another Common Snipe. The snipe here are almost all Common Snipes.
Common Greenshank, adult winter plumage.
Green Sandpiper, first-winter plumage. The loudest and most conspicuous call of any wader here.
Dunlin, first-winter plumage.