Japan Ramsar wetland
Nagata Beach
50 bird species recorded; the most in March.
NMaia · CC BY-SA 4.0
This month here
6 species in January.0 species in February.40 species in March.0 species in April.0 species in May.0 species in June.15 species in July.0 species in August.10 species in September.25 species in October.36 species in November.0 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.
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- Resident all year
- Summer visitor comes to breed
- Winter visitor comes for the winter
- Passage migrant in spring and autumn
In numbers
50 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).
- 50Speciesrecorded more than once
- 18Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
- 0ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
- 283Recordsopen records within 6 km
- 5Raptors
- 1Waders
- 3Ducks & geese
- 5Herons, ibises & grebes
- 29Songbirds
- 7Other 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 50 species.
By group, with the year in twelve cells: the darker the cell, the more often the bird is recorded that month.
Raptors5 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Black KiteMilvus migrans
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Japanese BuzzardButeo japonicus
- Grey-faced BuzzardButastur indicus
- Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
Waders1 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
Ducks & geese3 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Chinese Spot-billed DuckAnas zonorhyncha
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Eurasian TealAnas crecca
Herons, ibises & grebes5 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Great White EgretArdea alba
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- Egretta intermediaEgretta intermedia
Songbirds29 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Brown-eared BulbulHypsipetes amaurotis
- Poecile variusPoecile varius
- Large-billed CrowCorvus macrorhynchos
- Zosterops japonicusZosterops japonicus
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- Blue Rock ThrushMonticola solitarius
- Daurian RedstartPhoenicurus auroreus
- Ryukyu MinivetPericrocotus tegimae
- Asian StubtailUrosphena squameiceps
- White WagtailMotacilla alba
- Pale ThrushTurdus pallidus
- Meadow BuntingEmberiza cioides
- Japanese Bush WarblerHorornis diphone
- Olive-backed PipitAnthus hodgsoni
- Bull-headed ShrikeLanius bucephalus
- Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
- Narcissus FlycatcherFicedula narcissina
- Brown DipperCinclus pallasii
- Masked buntingEmberiza personata
- Zitting CisticolaCisticola juncidis
- Grey-capped GreenfinchChloris sinica
- Common Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus
- Rustic BuntingEmberiza rusticaNT
- Japanese RobinErithacus akahige
- Ryukyu RobinErithacus komadori
- Siberian RubythroatLuscinia calliope
- BramblingFringilla montifringilla
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- Barn swallowHirundo rustica
Other birds7 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Oriental Turtle DoveStreptopelia orientalis
- Japanese Pygmy WoodpeckerYungipicus kizuki
- Common KingfisherAlcedo atthis
- CootFulica atra
- Japanese Green WoodpeckerPicus awokera
- Black Wood PigeonColumba janthina
- Taiwan Green-pigeonTreron formosaeNT
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 March.
Species recorded in each month, with the usual temperature and rain.
- Jan15°/13°137 mm
- Feb16°/13°160 mm
- Mar18°/15°196 mm
- Apr20°/18°220 mm
- May23°/21°277 mm
- Jun25°/24°588 mm
- Jul28°/27°352 mm
- Aug29°/28°218 mm
- Sep28°/26°310 mm
- Oct25°/23°201 mm
- Nov21°/19°170 mm
- Dec17°/15°152 mm
- Bar: species recorded that month.
- Temperature: average maximum / minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Nagata Beach.
Nagata Beach is a wetland of international importance (Ramsar) in Japan.
50 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 283 open records.
The most recorded are the Brown-eared Bulbul, the Poecile varius and the Large-billed Crow.
5 species come for the summer, 13 for the winter and 0 only pass through.
The most species are recorded in March.
Get there and watch
- 癒しの体験型キャンプ場campsite · 1.0 km · 2 within 10 km
- ホリデーハウス永田place to stay · 0.7 km · 4 within 10 km
- Nagatanearest town · 1.0 km in a straight line
- Yakushima Airport (KUM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 23 km in a straight lineCar hire at KUM airport (Yakushima)Discover 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
- 4viewpoints within 5 km吉村兄さん家, 屋久島灯台 and 2 more
- 4car parks within 3 km
- 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 km癒しの体験型キャンプ場, 永田いなか浜キャンプ場
- 4places to stay within 10 kmホリデーハウス永田, Soyotei, 鹿之沢小屋 and 1 more
- bird hides within 6 km
- observation towers within 6 km
- marked trails within 4 km
- visitor centres within 6 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 Nagata Beach.
The lakes, beaches, islands, rivers and mountains around this place, and its night sky, in the family's atlases.
Peakyas17 mountains within 25 kmMount Kuniwari1,323 m · 5.3 kmMount Nagata1,886 m · 11 kmMount Kurio1,867 m · 11 kmMount Miyanoura1,936 m · 12 kmMount Kuromi1,831 m · 13 kmMt. Koban1,711 m · 14 kmMount Tachū1,497 m · 17 kmMount Shindake626 m · volcano · 20 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 kmYakushimaBortle 2 · 12 km↗Shiratani Unsui GorgeBortle 2 · 15 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.
Nagata Beach
Japan
- 38Birdyas Score
- 50Species
- 18Migrants
- 0Threatened
Izumi crane migration grounds
Japan · 190 km
- 88Birdyas Score
- 204Species
- 139Migrants
- 10Threatened
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q107356696) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Birds | 283 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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