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.
キンクロハジロ、マガモ、オナガガモを今季初認。ハシビロガモ、ヒドリガモ、コガモは分散しながらも滞在中。カリガネ、ヒシクイ、マガンも長逗留。
Male Tufted Duck.
First-year female Tufted Duck.
A sleeping male Mallard.
A few Northern Pintails flew in.
Northern Shoveler, male.
Northern Shoveler, juvenile male.
Eurasian Wigeon.
田んぼにはソリハシセイタカシギ、セイタカシギ、コアオアシシギ、アオアシシギ、アカアシシギ、クサシギ、タシギ、コチドリ、タゲリなど越冬中。タシギは数十羽滞在していますが、チュウジシギは見つからず…。
Pied Avocet, first-winter.
Long-toed Stint, winter plumage.
Marsh Sandpiper, winter plumage.
Common Redshank.
Green Sandpiper, first-winter.
Common Snipe, first-winter.
Northern Lapwing, juvenile.
Little Ringed Plover, first-winter.
カシラダカが30羽ほどの群れで飛来。石垣島でこれほどの数が見られるのはかなり珍しいです。ヒレンジャクは4羽がカポックについています。ツグミも増えて来て、ノビタキは複数滞在。ツメナガセキレイ、ハクセキレイ、キセキレイも増えています。
Rustic Bunting preening.
Two Rustic Buntings.
The Rustic Buntings were feeding on rice in a harvested paddy field.
Four Japanese Waxwings. They were eating Schefflera berries.
Dusky Thrushes have been increasing in the farmland and paddies. They will likely spread out across the island from here.
Multiple Siberian Stonechats staying on.
Siberian Stonechats at a different location. All females.
Eastern Yellow Wagtail, first-winter. White Wagtails have finally started to increase as well.
ジャワアカガシラサギ、ズグロミゾゴイ、リュウキュウヨシゴイを確認。アカガシラサギやヨシゴイも滞在中。
Javan Pond Heron in winter plumage.
Same individual as above. It has been staying for a long time.
Black-crowned Night Heron adult.
A Black-crowned Night Heron at an elementary school.
A juvenile Ryukyu Striated Heron in a drainage channel.
今季は少ないカンムリワシ幼鳥。小さな田んぼに住み着いていますが、チョウゲンボウと争いが絶えません。
ベニバトは複数箇所で滞在。
A juvenile Crested Serpent Eagle fleeing after being startled by a Common Kestrel.
The frame before the photo above. It is being mobbed by a juvenile Common Kestrel.
Crested Serpent Eagle adult.
A male Pale-capped Pigeon. Too spooked by raptors to come down from the tree.