Japan lumoplank · CC0
This month here
8 species in January.0 species in February.42 species in March.19 species in April.22 species in May.12 species in June.20 species in July.21 species in August.21 species in September.18 species in October.6 species in November.6 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.
No records for this month.
NT
NTNTNTNTNTNT- 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
- 15Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
- 0ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
- 441Recordsopen records within 6 km
- 1,412 mAltitudeabove the sea
- 2Raptors
- 3Waders
- 4Gulls & seabirds
- 6Herons, ibises & grebes
- 31Songbirds
- 9Other 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.
Raptors2 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Black KiteMilvus migrans
- Grey-faced BuzzardButastur indicus
Waders3 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
- Gray-tailed TattlerTringa brevipes
- Eurasian CurlewNumenius arquataNT
Gulls & seabirds4 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Brown BoobySula leucogaster
- Black-tailed GullLarus crassirostris
- Streaked ShearwaterCalonectris leucomelasNT
- Vega GullLarus vegae
Herons, ibises & grebes6 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- Reef HeronEgretta sacra
- Japanese CormorantPhalacrocorax capillatus
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Great White EgretArdea alba
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
Songbirds31 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Poecile variusPoecile varius
- Eurasian WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Zosterops japonicusZosterops japonicus
- Brown-eared BulbulHypsipetes amaurotis
- Japanese Bush WarblerHorornis diphone
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Eurasian JayGarrulus glandarius
- Narcissus FlycatcherFicedula narcissina
- Large-billed CrowCorvus macrorhynchos
- Ryukyu MinivetPericrocotus tegimae
- Japanese RobinErithacus akahige
- Asian StubtailUrosphena squameiceps
- Brown DipperCinclus pallasii
- Cinereous TitParus cinereus
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- Blue Rock ThrushMonticola solitarius
- Brown-headed ThrushTurdus chrysolaus
- Meadow BuntingEmberiza cioides
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- Pale ThrushTurdus pallidus
- White's ThrushZoothera aurea
- Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
- Parus variusParus varius
- Barn swallowHirundo rustica
- Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaea
- Asian House MartinDelichon dasypus
- Blue-and-white FlycatcherCyanoptila cyanomelana
- Ryukyu RobinErithacus komadori
- Eurasian SiskinSpinus spinus
- Grey-capped GreenfinchChloris sinica
- White WagtailMotacilla alba
Other birds9 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Japanese Green WoodpeckerPicus awokera
- Japanese Pygmy WoodpeckerYungipicus kizuki
- Black Wood PigeonColumba janthina
- Taiwan Green-pigeonTreron formosaeNT
- Oriental Turtle DoveStreptopelia orientalis
- White-backed WoodpeckerDendrocopos leucotos
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- House SwiftApus nipalensis
- Common CuckooCuculus canorus
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
Yakushima.
Island in Kagoshima, Japan
Yakushima is a wetland of international importance (Ramsar) in Japan, 1,412 m above the sea.
55 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 441 open records.
The most recorded are the Poecile varius, the Eurasian Wren and the Zosterops japonicus.
13 species come for the summer, 2 for the winter and 0 only pass through.
The most species are recorded in March.
Get there and watch
- Ocean Viewcampsite · 8.8 km · 4 within 10 km
- Shintakatsuplace to stay · 0.9 km · 19 within 10 km
- Miyanouranearest town · 8.6 km in a straight line
- Yakushima Airport (KUM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 13 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
- 3viewpoints within 5 km縄文杉
- 4campsites within 10 kmOcean View, 永田いなか浜キャンプ場, 癒しの体験型キャンプ場 and 1 more
- 19places to stay within 10 kmShintakatsu, 白谷山荘 (Shiratani-sansō), 鹿之沢小屋 and 16 more
- bird hides within 6 km
- observation towers within 6 km
- marked trails within 4 km
- visitor centres within 6 km
- car parks within 3 km
- restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Yakushima.
The lakes, beaches, islands, rivers and mountains around this place, and its night sky, in the family's atlases.
Peakyas15 mountains within 25 kmMount Miyanoura1,936 m · 3.0 kmMount Nagata1,886 m · 3.4 kmMount Kurio1,867 m · 3.5 kmMount Kuromi1,831 m · 5.0 kmMount Tachū1,497 m · 5.5 kmMt. Koban1,711 m · 5.8 kmMount Aiko1,235 m · 6.9 kmMount Kuniwari1,323 m · 11 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 kmYakushimaBortle 2 · this place↗Shiratani Unsui GorgeBortle 2 · 5.0 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.
Yakushima
Japan
- 38Birdyas Score
- 55Species
- 15Migrants
- 0Threatened
Izumi crane migration grounds
Japan · 195 km
- 88Birdyas Score
- 204Species
- 139Migrants
- 10Threatened
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q242176) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Birds | 441 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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