Japan Ramsar wetland
Yoshigadaira Wetlands
40 bird species recorded; the most in June.
Koichi Hayakawa · CC BY-SA 2.0
This month here
14 species in January.0 species in February.11 species in March.5 species in April.4 species in May.21 species in June.12 species in July.17 species in August.3 species in September.15 species in October.11 species in November.13 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.
- Resident all year
- Summer visitor comes to breed
- Winter visitor comes for the winter
- Passage migrant in spring and autumn
In numbers
40 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).
- 40Speciesrecorded more than once
- 17Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
- 0ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
- 206Recordsopen records within 6 km
- 1,522 mAltitudeabove the sea
- 1Raptors
- 34Songbirds
- 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 40 species.
By group, with the year in twelve cells: the darker the cell, the more often the bird is recorded that month.
Raptors1 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Black KiteMilvus migrans
Songbirds34 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- White WagtailMotacilla alba
- Poecile variusPoecile varius
- Japanese Bush WarblerHorornis diphone
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Cinereous TitParus cinereus
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula
- Brown-eared BulbulHypsipetes amaurotis
- Daurian RedstartPhoenicurus auroreus
- Large-billed CrowCorvus macrorhynchos
- Japanese WagtailMotacilla grandis
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- Meadow BuntingEmberiza cioides
- Bull-headed ShrikeLanius bucephalus
- Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
- Northern NutcrackerNucifraga caryocatactes
- Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaea
- Asian House MartinDelichon dasypus
- Eurasian JayGarrulus glandarius
- Japanese AccentorPrunella rubida
- Barn swallowHirundo rustica
- Turdus eunomusTurdus eunomus
- Willow TitPoecile montanus
- Grey BuntingEmberiza variabilis
- Red-flanked BluetailTarsiger cyanurus
- BramblingFringilla montifringilla
- Japanese Leaf WarblerPhylloscopus xanthodryas
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- Brown-headed ThrushTurdus chrysolaus
- Yellow BuntingEmberiza sulphurata
- HwameiGarrulax canorus
- Muscicapa latirostrisMuscicapa latirostris
- Narcissus FlycatcherFicedula narcissina
- White-cheeked StarlingSpodiopsar cineraceus
- Common crossbillLoxia curvirostra
Other birds5 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Japanese Pygmy WoodpeckerYungipicus kizuki
- Common CuckooCuculus canorus
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Oriental Turtle DoveStreptopelia orientalis
- Needle-tailed SwiftHirundapus caudacutus
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 June.
Species recorded in each month, with the usual temperature and rain.
- Jan-2°/-8°83 mm
- Feb0°/-8°60 mm
- Mar4°/-5°83 mm
- Apr12°/0°88 mm
- May17°/6°103 mm
- Jun21°/12°143 mm
- Jul25°/16°199 mm
- Aug25°/17°162 mm
- Sep21°/13°178 mm
- Oct15°/6°159 mm
- Nov8°/0°87 mm
- Dec2°/-5°90 mm
- Bar: species recorded that month.
- Temperature: average maximum / minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Yoshigadaira Wetlands.
Yoshigadaira Wetlands is a wetland of international importance (Ramsar) in Japan, 1,522 m above the sea.
40 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 206 open records.
The most recorded are the White Wagtail, the Poecile varius and the Japanese Bush Warbler.
8 species come for the summer, 7 for the winter and 2 only pass through.
The most species are recorded in June.
Get there and watch
- Burning Japancampsite · 7.1 km · 2 within 10 km
- 草津高原ホテルplace to stay · 2.3 km · 86 within 10 km
- Kusatsunearest town · 3.5 km in a straight line
- Shinshu-Matsumoto Airport (MMJ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 78 km in a straight lineCar hire at TOY airport (Toyama)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
- 8visitor centres within 6 km草津温泉観光案内所, 観光案内所, 旅館案内所 and 5 more
- 12viewpoints within 5 km本白根山展望所, 草津白根山火口展望台 and 10 more
- 83car parks within 3 km
- 43restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 2campsites within 10 kmBurning Japan, 山田牧場キャンプ場
- 86places to stay within 10 km草津高原ホテル, ホテル望雲, ホテルベルツ and 83 more
- bird hides within 6 km
- observation towers within 6 km
- marked trails within 4 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 Yoshigadaira Wetlands.
The lakes, beaches, islands, rivers and mountains around this place, and its night sky, in the family's atlases.
Peakyas42 mountains within 25 kmMount Motoshirane2,171 m · volcano · 3.3 kmMount Kusatsu-Shirane2,160 m · volcano · 3.7 kmMount Yokote2,307 m · 5.4 kmHachi Yama2,012 m · volcano · 7.9 kmMount Shiga2,041 m · volcano · 8.9 kmMount Iwasuge2,295 m · 12 kmMount Azumaya2,354 m · volcano · 17 kmMount Kōsha1,352 m · volcano · 24 km
Cascadyas3 waterfalls within 15 kmJōfu Falls · 1.3 kmŌsen Falls · 5.2 kmKaminari Falls · 11 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.
Yoshigadaira Wetlands
Japan
- 36Birdyas Score
- 40Species
- 17Migrants
- 0Threatened
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q107352659) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Birds | 206 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, 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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