Sep. 14-19 2018, Tokyo – Chichi-jima – Haha-jima (Ogasawara Is.).
We on boarded the Ogasawara-Maru (OgasawaraKaiun Co.).
Tokyo (Takeshiba Terminal) at 11:00 am Sep. 14 → Chichi-jima (Ogasawara Is.) at 11:00 am Sep. 15
Chichi-jima (Ogasawara Is.) at 12:00 am Sep. 15 → Haha-jima (Ogasawara Is.) at 14:00 am Sep. 15
Sep. 15-18 : Stayed in Haha-jima
Haha-jima at 12:00 am Sep. 18 → Chichi-jima at 14:00 pm Sep. 18
Chichi-jima at 15:30 pm Sep. 18 → Tokyo (Takeshiba Terminal) at 15:30 pm Sep. 19
Weather : cloudy-sunny
Temperature : around 30 ℃
Wind speed : 3-10m/s (at sea)
Wave height : ＜2.5m
Generally, it was a very calm voyage. At off Hachijo-jima (the first day), there were strong wind and swell. The significant result was that Stejneger’s Petrel, White-necked Petrel and Bryan’s Shearwater! A White-necked Petrel looked like a Vanuatu type.
Bird list
- Bulwer’s Petrel 201+
- Stejneger’s Petrel 1
- Bonin Petrel 13
- Providence Petrel 17
- White-necked Petrel 1
- Streaked Shearwater <10000
- Wedge-tailed Shearwater <1000
- Bryan’s Shearwater 1
- Bannerman’s Shearwater 4
- Leach’s Storm Petrel 1
- Swinhoe’s Storm Petrel ? 2
- Long-tailed Jaeger 1
- Skua sp. 3
- Brown Booby
- Red-footed Booby 4
- Sooty Tern 9
- Common Tern 100+
- Brown Noddy 143+
- Red-necked Phalarope 31
- Phalarope sp. 44+
- Pacific Golden Plover
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper (A surprising bonus)
- Ruff
- Common Sandpiper
- Japanese woodpigeon
- Grey Heron
- Eastern Buzzard
- Brown-eared Bulbul
- Blue Rock Thrush
- Japanese Bush Warbler
- Japanese White-eye
- Bonin Honeyeater
- Oriental Greenfinch
Others…
- Common Bottlenose Dolphin
- Pygmy Sperm Shale
