Showing posts with label kite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kite. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Tombi, Japanese Kites (the birds)


Black Eared Kites are by far the most common raptor found in Japan and they can be found especially along rivers and coastlines.


Ive posted pics of them before many years ago, but those old posts have lost their photos so here are some new ones.


I saw this guy as I was walking down the coast of Cape Muroto in Kochi as I was walking the Shikoku Pilgrimage.


Saturday, April 18, 2015

Birds along the Yamaguchi Coast


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This past Spring while walking the Chugoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage I took a walk along the Japan Sea coast of Yamaguchi,  It's a particularly fine stretch of coast with azure seas, outcroppings and cliffs, small islands and a lot of small fishing villages. Here are some of the birds I saw. The first is a heron. Sagi in Japanese, maybe its a Grey heron, maybe a Great Blue......

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Lots of cormorants. I am guessing that they are Temmink's Cormorants, the most common kind, known as Umi-u in Japanese, though there are some other species which visit during migration. The difference among the onbes in the photo may be due to age and gender.

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Lots of Kites, Black-eared Kite being the common species here. Known as Tombi in Japanese.

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More cormorants.

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This is, I believe, a Blue Rock Thrush, but I have no idea what it is called in Japanese.