Japan Ramsar wetland
Kejyonuma Dam
55 bird species recorded; the most in November.
photo: Qurren ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
This month here
38 species in January.3 species in February.6 species in March.0 species in April.0 species in May.0 species in June.0 species in July.0 species in August.2 species in September.3 species in October.42 species in November.38 species in December.
The birds you are most likely to see in the month you choose, those that come for the season first. It opens on today's month.
VU
No records for this month.
No records for this month.
No records for this month.
No records for this month.
No records for this month.
VUVU- Resident all year
- Summer visitor comes to breed
- Winter visitor comes for the winter
- Passage migrant in spring and autumn
In numbers
55 species, counted.
Our own rating, from the records only: species (50 points), threatened species (20), migrants (20) and protected status — Ramsar, IBA, SPA, observatory (10).
- 55Speciesrecorded more than once
- 23Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
- 1ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
- 586Recordsopen records within 6 km
- 3Raptors
- 22Ducks & geese
- 6Herons, ibises & grebes
- 19Songbirds
- 5Other birds
From open records (eBird and others, through GBIF, licensed for any use). More birdwatchers mean more records: a quiet place may have more birds than it shows.
The checklist
All 55 species.
By group, with the year in twelve cells: the darker the cell, the more often the bird is recorded that month.
Raptors3 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Black KiteMilvus migrans
- Eurasian SparrowhawkAccipiter nisus
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
Ducks & geese22 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Greater White-fronted GooseAnser albifrons
- Whooper SwanCygnus cygnus
- Anas poecilorhynchaAnas poecilorhyncha
- Common PochardAythya ferinaVU
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Eurasian TealAnas crecca
- Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeata
- Eurasian WigeonMareca penelope
- Bewick's SwanCygnus columbianus
- SmewMergellus albellus
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- GoosanderMergus merganser
- Chinese Spot-billed DuckAnas zonorhyncha
- Taiga Bean GooseAnser fabalis
- Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- Cackling GooseBranta hutchinsii
- Baikal TealSibirionetta formosa
- Falcated DuckMareca falcata
- GadwallMareca strepera
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Tundra Bean GooseAnser serrirostris
Herons, ibises & grebes6 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Great White EgretArdea alba
- Egretta intermediaEgretta intermedia
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
Songbirds19 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
- Brown-eared BulbulHypsipetes amaurotis
- Large-billed CrowCorvus macrorhynchos
- White WagtailMotacilla alba
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- Japanese WagtailMotacilla grandis
- Bull-headed ShrikeLanius bucephalus
- Eurasian JayGarrulus glandarius
- Rustic BuntingEmberiza rusticaNT
- Grey-capped GreenfinchChloris sinica
- Cinereous TitParus cinereus
- Japanese Bush WarblerHorornis diphone
- Turdus eunomusTurdus eunomus
- Daurian RedstartPhoenicurus auroreus
- Eurasian SiskinSpinus spinus
- Long-tailed RosefinchCarpodacus sibiricus
- Poecile variusPoecile varius
- Yellow-throated BuntingEmberiza elegans
- Meadow BuntingEmberiza cioides
Other birds5 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Japanese Pygmy WoodpeckerYungipicus kizuki
- CootFulica atra
- Japanese Green WoodpeckerPicus awokera
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Oriental Turtle DoveStreptopelia orientalis
Monthly presence relative to all bird records that month, so a busy month does not inflate every species.
When to go
The most species in November.
Species recorded in each month, with the usual temperature and rain.
- Jan4°/-2°78 mm
- Feb4°/-2°52 mm
- Mar8°/0°83 mm
- Apr14°/5°100 mm
- May19°/10°101 mm
- Jun23°/15°116 mm
- Jul26°/19°176 mm
- Aug27°/21°139 mm
- Sep24°/18°140 mm
- Oct19°/12°151 mm
- Nov13°/5°86 mm
- Dec7°/0°93 mm
- Bar: species recorded that month.
- Temperature: average maximum / minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Kejyonuma Dam.
Dam in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Kejyonuma Dam is a wetland of international importance (Ramsar) in Japan.
55 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 586 open records.
The most recorded are the Mallard, the Greater White-fronted Goose and the Whooper Swan.
0 species come for the summer, 19 for the winter and 4 only pass through.
1 are threatened worldwide, including Common Pochard.
The most species are recorded in November.
Get there and watch
- ホテル ルージュの伝言place to stay · 3.2 km · 22 within 10 km
- Ōsakinearest town · 4.3 km in a straight line
- Sendai Airport (SDJ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 54 km in a straight lineCar hire in SendaiDiscover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The place and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the bird hides, towers and trails that OpenStreetMap shows.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 6viewpoints within 5 km桂葉清水, 藤棚橋, 抑の関遺跡 and 3 more
- 46car parks within 3 km
- 9restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 22places to stay within 10 kmホテル ルージュの伝言, ジュラシック, ショートステイくるみ and 19 more
- bird hides within 6 km
- observation towers within 6 km
- marked trails within 4 km
- visitor centres within 6 km
- campsites within 10 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
Around Kejyonuma Dam.
The lakes, beaches, islands, rivers and mountains around this place, and its night sky, in the family's atlases.
Peakyas20 mountains within 25 kmToya Zan · 19 kmKuro Mori · 23 kmOga Take · 23 kmMount Yakurai553 m · 23 kmNaruko470 m · 23 kmKurumiga Take · 24 kmAsahi Yama174 m · 24 kmOkoma Yama · 24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 kmKejo Numa0.3 km² · 0.5 km
Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The place, as people saw it.
Other places nearby.
Kejyonuma Dam
Japan
- 42Birdyas Score
- 55Species
- 23Migrants
- 1Threatened
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q6385327) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Birds | 586 open bird records within 6 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only; mostly eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Species | GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikidata (CC0); Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas, Lakeyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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