Japan Ramsar wetland
Lake Kutcharo
47 bird species recorded; the most in June.
切干大根 · CC BY-SA 4.0
This month here
8 species in January.13 species in February.18 species in March.5 species in April.7 species in May.27 species in June.16 species in July.1 species in August.3 species in September.16 species in October.3 species in November.2 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.
VU
VUVU- Resident all year
- Summer visitor comes to breed
- Winter visitor comes for the winter
- Passage migrant in spring and autumn
In numbers
47 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).
- 47Speciesrecorded more than once
- 15Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
- 1ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
- 286Recordsopen records within 6 km
- 3Raptors
- 6Gulls & seabirds
- 13Ducks & geese
- 5Herons, ibises & grebes
- 16Songbirds
- 4Other 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 47 species.
By group, with the year in twelve cells: the darker the cell, the more often the bird is recorded that month.
Raptors3 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Steller's Sea-eagleHaliaeetus pelagicusVU
- Black KiteMilvus migrans
- White-tailed EagleHaliaeetus albicilla
Gulls & seabirds6 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Slaty-backed GullLarus schistisagus
- Black-tailed GullLarus crassirostris
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
- Vega GullLarus vegae
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Common GullLarus canus
Ducks & geese13 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Bewick's SwanCygnus columbianus
- Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Whooper SwanCygnus cygnus
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- GoosanderMergus merganser
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- SmewMergellus albellus
- Eurasian WigeonMareca penelope
- Taiga Bean GooseAnser fabalis
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Eurasian TealAnas crecca
- Falcated DuckMareca falcata
Herons, ibises & grebes5 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Pelagic CormorantPhalacrocorax pelagicus
- Great White EgretArdea alba
- Japanese CormorantPhalacrocorax capillatus
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
Songbirds16 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Large-billed CrowCorvus macrorhynchos
- Stejneger's StonechatSaxicola stejnegeri
- Japanese Bush WarblerHorornis diphone
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- Black-browed Reed WarblerAcrocephalus bistrigiceps
- Siberian RubythroatLuscinia calliope
- Grey-capped GreenfinchChloris sinica
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- White WagtailMotacilla alba
- Eastern Crowned Leaf WarblerPhylloscopus coronatus
- Sakhalin Grasshopper WarblerLocustella amnicola
- Marsh TitPoecile palustris
- Eastern Yellow WagtailMotacilla tschutschensis
- Common Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus
- Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
- Cinereous TitParus cinereus
Other birds4 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Oriental CuckooCuculus optatus
- Common CuckooCuculus canorus
- Oriental Turtle DoveStreptopelia orientalis
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-4°/-9°74 mm
- Feb-4°/-10°62 mm
- Mar0°/-5°60 mm
- Apr6°/0°55 mm
- May12°/5°73 mm
- Jun16°/10°82 mm
- Jul20°/14°114 mm
- Aug22°/16°140 mm
- Sep19°/13°117 mm
- Oct12°/7°109 mm
- Nov4°/0°106 mm
- Dec-2°/-6°101 mm
- Bar: species recorded that month.
- Temperature: average maximum / minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Lake Kutcharo.
Freshwater lake in Japan
Lake Kutcharo is a wetland of international importance (Ramsar) in Japan.
47 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 286 open records.
The most recorded are the Bewick's Swan, the Common Goldeneye and the Northern Pintail.
7 species come for the summer, 8 for the winter and 0 only pass through.
1 are threatened worldwide, including Steller's Sea-eagle.
The most species are recorded in June.
Get there and watch
- クッチャロ湖キャンプ場campsite · 1.3 km · 1 within 10 km
- はまとんべつ温泉ウィングplace to stay · 1.4 km · 3 within 10 km
- Hamatonbetsunearest town · 3.9 km in a straight line
- Wakkanai Airport (WKJ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 51 km in a straight lineCar hire at WKJ airport (Wakkanai)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
- 1visitor centres within 6 km水鳥観察館
- 1viewpoints within 5 kmベニヤ原生花園展望台
- 16car parks within 3 km
- 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 kmクッチャロ湖キャンプ場
- 3places to stay within 10 kmはまとんべつ温泉ウィング, トシカの宿, 浜頓ホテル
- 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 Lake Kutcharo.
The lakes, beaches, islands, rivers and mountains around this place, and its night sky, in the family's atlases.
Peakyas11 mountains within 25 kmMount Tokitai292 m · 12 kmMount Samakishiri · 13 kmMount Shubun761 m · 14 kmMount Shanai439 m · 15 kmMount Ōhata · 18 kmMount Isosannupuri581 m · 20 kmMount Poronupuri841 m · 20 kmMount Shirikoma529 m · 24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 kmLake Kutcharo8.2 km² · 0.8 km
Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Other places nearby.
Lake Kutcharo
Japan
- 39Birdyas Score
- 47Species
- 15Migrants
- 1Threatened
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q4597635) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Birds | 286 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, Lakeyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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