Birds of Japan

Japan has a predominantly temperate climate, which, however, changes significantly from north to south. This results in a high biodiversity. Japan protects it through a dense network of national parks, 37 RAMSAR wetlands and 4 World Natural Heritage sites. The birdlife is rich, not least because Japan is crossed by many migratory birds in spring and autumn and is also visited by many hibernating birds during the cold season. But in Japan you can also find more than 20 species of birds that breed nowhere but here.

This E-book bird guide for "Japan" has been built at 16.08.2026, based upon our data base and our image archive using our default settings, and saved in two formats. Thereby it is made sure that the e-book can be displayed on virtually all devices and if applicable be printed out with a compact page size.
A free online-preview to the main section of the bird guide to Japan - of course at today's state of the data base and the archive - is available at Bird guides customized. There you can not only obtain the current edition of "Birds of Japan", but also modify the form in many ways.
Cover image Ring-necked Pheasant, Drawing: J.Wolf&H.C.Richter

Primary language English, secondary languages German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese.
All 479 species are illustrated. In addition, links to HD videos of 106 bird species (1h 9m 44s) and audios of 47 bird species (24m 22s) are included. The assessment of the global conservation status of bird species uses the criteria of the Red List (IUCN) 2012.
The scientific system follows Clements et al. 2024.
An index, name registers in all selected languages and a scientific name register, all completely linked.
PDF E-book in page-based format A5: 185 pages, 42.32 MiB.
ePub 3 E-book in flowable format for all devices with ePub reader: 22.87 MiB.

A paperback version of this bird guide is available from Amazon (ISBN: 979-8775029609).
Also you can obtain a Kindle edition from Amazon (ASIN: B07K1MQFXT).
© Wolfgang J. Daunicht 2026