| Regarding birdwatching |
| When am I started bird watching? |
When I was a junior high school student,
my father took me to Koya-ike pond. |
| How long have I been birding? |
Approximately 19 years. (just long....) |
| lLifelist |
Approx. 410 in Japan. Totally, about 1,530
species |
| Impressive/favourite birds (bird group) |
Baikal Teal, Falcated Teal, Scaly-sided Merganser,
Bufflehead, Amur Red-footed Falcon, falconets,
Pectoral Sandpiper, owls, fruit-doves, Brush
Bronzewing, Spinifex Pigeon, Partridge Pigeon,
kingfishers, hornbills, Asian Emerald Cuckoo,
piculets, toucans, trongons, bee-eaters,
motmots, hummingbirds, malkohas, Australian
parrots, pittas, broadbills, Scissor-tailed
Flycatcher, waxwings, robins, White-throated
Rock Thrush, Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Narcissus
Flycatcher, White-rumped Flycatcher, blue
flycatchers, Cutia, Silver-eared Mesia, fairy-wrens,,
emu-wrens, grasswrens, Australian robins,
monarch flycatchers, quail-thrushes, Varied
Tit, sunbirds, Pine Bunting, Tristram's Bunting,
Yellow-throated Bunting, Chestnut Bunting,
Grey Bunting, Japanese Yellow Bunting, Snow
Bunting, Indigo Bunting, Golden-hooded Tanager,
Spangle-cheeked Tanager, Silver-throated
Tanager, honeycreepers, Asian Rosy Finch,
Pallas's Rosefinch, Green Magpie, Malaysian
Rail Babbler, woodswallows, birds of paradise,
Golden Bowerbird, Regent Bowerbird |
| Targetted species/group |
King & Spectacled Eiders, Stilt Sandpiper,
monals, tragopans, Great Bastard, Princess
Parrot, coquets, sand grouses, fruit-doves,
Bay Owl, Banded Kingfisher, Carmine
Bee-eater,
Long-tailed Manakin, pittas, umbrellabirds,
cock-a-rock, Orange-headed Thrush,
redstarts,
wheatears, cochoas, Sapphire Flycatcher,
blue flycatchers,Celestial Monarch,
Rufous
Paradise Flycatcher, Blue Fantail,
Parrotbills,
Black Grasswren, Dusky Grasswren, American
warblers, Varied Bunting, Painted Bunting,
tanagers, Red-eared Firetail, Painted
Finch |
| Favourite birding spots |
- Outback Australia
- Royal National Park, NSW, Australia
- Lamington National Park, QLD, Australia
- Ibraki-benten
- Togakushi
- Kabukuri-numa
- Lake Biwa
- Clouded Forest in Costa Rica
- Fraser's Hill |
| Non-birding issues |
| Birth of origin, past(present) addresses |
Kawanishi→Ibaraki→Yamagata→Ibaraki→Wollongong→Forest
Hill→Yokohama→Kuala Lumpur→Ibaraki→Takatsuki
Since I often move,I am financially poor.... |
| jobs |
wildlife conservation, nature conservation,
wetland conservation issues |
| Favourite musics |
Japanese
Zabadak: "Sora-tobu-yume" cool!
135 Mizinko」
Kai Band "Yuwaku"
Takuji Oyama 「Himawari｣
SION "ShunkaShuto", "Yorushika
Oyogenai"
Yukadan "Rolling Steady"
Rock & Pops
Cowboy Junkies "Caution Horses": cool!
Counting Crows "This Desert Life"
Hootie & the Blowfish "Fairweather
Johnson"
Hooters "One Way Home"
Jewel "Spirit"
Levellers: "Mouth to Mouth"
Natalie Marchant: "Ophelia"： cool!
Radiohead "The Bends": cool!
REM "Automatic for the People":
cool!,,"New Adventures in Hi-Fi"
Tom Waits "Rain Dog", "Mule
Variations"
JAZZ
Miles Davis: "Kind of Blue"
Kenny Burrell: "Midnight Blue"
cool!
Bill Evans "Waltz for Debby", "Alone"
cool! |
| Photograph |
Taking photos more than 20 years. I mainly
take photos of natural creatures, such as
landscape, birds, flowers and insects. |
| Books |
Prefers real novels rather than mistery.
Miyuki Miyabe, Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Yoichi
Funato etc. |
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in China (© 2002, M. Tokuda) |