A daily record.
Featuring photos of wild birds and nature, mainly from Okinawa Main Island and Ishigaki Island

Ruddy Kingfisher Eurasian Hoopoe Crested serpent eagle Iriomote Tit Javan pond heron

GUIDED BIRDWATCHING TOUR

Go where the birds are. The SHIMASOBA Tour launches.

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.

Max. 3 guests 4 hours in the morning Beginners welcome
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エリグロアジサシ、コアジサシ子育て順調

台風が全く発生しない7月でエリグロアジサシやベニアジサシ、コアジサシの子育てが順調に推移しています。

エリグロアジサシは孵化後2週間ほどのヒナが数羽。抱卵している個体やこれから産卵に入ろうかというペアもいます。コアジサシはすでにヒナが巣立っており、子連れで河口を飛び回っていました。

Black-naped Tern
Black-naped Tern

A pair of Black-naped Terns. They looked as though they were about to lay.

Black-naped Tern
Black-naped Tern

A Black-naped Tern chick (right) and its parent.

Black-naped Tern
Black-naped Tern

A Black-naped Tern that came to bathe.

Black-naped Tern
Black-naped Tern

A Black-naped Tern colony. In the right half of the frame, two chicks of roughly the same age are visible.

Little Tern
Little Tern

A small flock of Little Terns. The individual at lower right is a fledged Little Tern chick, already beginning to moult into first-winter plumage.

Categories: 野鳥