Seabirding Japan

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Short-tailed Albatross

They are breeding at Torishima, Mukojima and Senkaku.

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Bannerman’s Shearwater

They are unique to Ogasawara Japan. Their breeding sites are only on three small islands.

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Japanese Band-rumped Storm-Petrel

Japan has the only breeding population in West Pacific.

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Bonin Petrel

Their name ‘Bonin’ means the old name of Ogasawara Islands.

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Japanese Murrelet

Some of them trip around Japan counterclockwise.

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Streaked Shearwater

They are the most common tubenose in Japan.

This website contains as many photos as we have taken. We also plan to organize our knowledge of identification points of seabirds.

We hope this website will help you with your seabirdwatching. If you have any questions about seabirdwatching in Japan, please feel free to contact us!

Let’s join the seabirding in Japan!

Seabirds Japan

Loons

Loons

Seabirds world

Albatrosses

Albatrosses

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Short-tailed Albatross

Collared Petrel

Laysan Albatross

Craveri’s Murrelet

White-necked Petrel

We are just weekend birdwatchers with a strong passion for seabirds!