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.
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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!


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