Japan Ramsar wetland
Nakaikemi Wetland
79 bird species recorded; the most in October.
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This month here
33 species in January.36 species in February.10 species in March.27 species in April.28 species in May.41 species in June.23 species in July.5 species in August.8 species in September.52 species in October.6 species in November.47 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.
NT
NT- Resident all year
- Summer visitor comes to breed
- Winter visitor comes for the winter
- Passage migrant in spring and autumn
In numbers
79 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).
- 79Speciesrecorded more than once
- 42Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
- 0ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
- 2,170Recordsopen records within 6 km
- 5Raptors
- 1Owls
- 3Waders
- 2Gulls & seabirds
- 7Ducks & geese
- 5Herons, ibises & grebes
- 49Songbirds
- 7Other 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 79 species.
By group, with the year in twelve cells: the darker the cell, the more often the bird is recorded that month.
Raptors5 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Black KiteMilvus migrans
- Common BuzzardButeo buteo
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Japanese BuzzardButeo japonicus
- European HobbyFalco subbuteo
Owls1 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Ural OwlStrix uralensis
Waders3 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Common SnipeGallinago gallinago
- Grey-headed LapwingVanellus cinereus
- Northern LapwingVanellus vanellusNT
Gulls & seabirds2 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Black-tailed GullLarus crassirostris
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
Ducks & geese7 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Anas poecilorhynchaAnas poecilorhyncha
- Eurasian TealAnas crecca
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Chinese Spot-billed DuckAnas zonorhyncha
- Mandarin DuckAix galericulata
- Eurasian WigeonMareca penelope
- GoosanderMergus merganser
Herons, ibises & grebes5 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Great White EgretArdea alba
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
Songbirds49 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Brown-eared BulbulHypsipetes amaurotis
- Zosterops japonicusZosterops japonicus
- Japanese WagtailMotacilla grandis
- Japanese Bush WarblerHorornis diphone
- Turdus naumanniTurdus naumanni
- Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- Common Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclus
- Grey-capped GreenfinchChloris sinica
- Poecile variusPoecile varius
- Narcissus FlycatcherFicedula narcissina
- Large-billed CrowCorvus macrorhynchos
- Barn swallowHirundo rustica
- Meadow BuntingEmberiza cioides
- Eurasian JayGarrulus glandarius
- Asian House MartinDelichon dasypus
- Bull-headed ShrikeLanius bucephalus
- Eurasian WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Japanese TitParus minor
- Japanese GrosbeakEophona personata
- Pale ThrushTurdus pallidus
- Red-flanked BluetailTarsiger cyanurus
- Black-faced buntingEmberiza spodocephala
- Rustic BuntingEmberiza rusticaNT
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- Yellow-throated BuntingEmberiza elegans
- Cinereous TitParus cinereus
- White WagtailMotacilla alba
- Zitting CisticolaCisticola juncidis
- Black-browed Reed WarblerAcrocephalus bistrigiceps
- Daurian RedstartPhoenicurus auroreus
- Stejneger's StonechatSaxicola stejnegeri
- Eastern Red-rumped SwallowCecropis daurica
- Buff-bellied PipitAnthus rubescens
- Long-tailed RosefinchCarpodacus sibiricus
- Masked buntingEmberiza personata
- Kamchatka Leaf WarblerPhylloscopus examinandus
- Willow TitPoecile montanus
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Olive-backed PipitAnthus hodgsoni
- Janpanese ThrushTurdus cardis
- Blue Rock ThrushMonticola solitarius
- Yellow BuntingEmberiza sulphurata
- Grey BuntingEmberiza variabilis
- HawfinchCoccothraustes coccothraustes
- BramblingFringilla montifringilla
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula
- Muscicapa latirostrisMuscicapa latirostris
- Oriental Reed WarblerAcrocephalus orientalis
Other birds7 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Japanese Pygmy WoodpeckerYungipicus kizuki
- Oriental Turtle DoveStreptopelia orientalis
- Japanese Green WoodpeckerPicus awokera
- Common KingfisherAlcedo atthis
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Common PheasantPhasianus colchicus
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 October.
Species recorded in each month, with the usual temperature and rain.
- Jan4°/-2°130 mm
- Feb5°/-1°104 mm
- Mar9°/1°127 mm
- Apr16°/6°136 mm
- May21°/12°148 mm
- Jun24°/16°178 mm
- Jul28°/21°246 mm
- Aug29°/22°158 mm
- Sep25°/18°202 mm
- Oct19°/11°167 mm
- Nov13°/6°115 mm
- Dec7°/1°153 mm
- Bar: species recorded that month.
- Temperature: average maximum / minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Nakaikemi Wetland.
Nakaikemi Wetland is a wetland of international importance (Ramsar) in Japan.
79 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 2,170 open records.
The most recorded are the Brown-eared Bulbul, the Zosterops japonicus and the Japanese Wagtail.
17 species come for the summer, 22 for the winter and 3 only pass through.
The most species are recorded in October.
Get there and watch
- ASOBASEcampsite · 8.8 km · 3 within 10 km
- マンテンホテルplace to stay · 1.9 km · 13 within 10 km
- Tsuruganearest town · 2.4 km in a straight line
- Komatsu Airport / JASDF Komatsu Air Base (KMQ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 86 km in a straight lineCar hire at NGO airport (Tokoname)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
- 2viewpoints within 5 km
- 62car parks within 3 km
- 46restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 3campsites within 10 kmASOBASE, ASOBASE PREMIUM YARD, 水晶浜
- 13places to stay within 10 kmマンテンホテル, ドーミーイン敦賀, 東横イン敦賀駅前 and 10 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 Nakaikemi Wetland.
The lakes, beaches, islands, rivers and mountains around this place, and its night sky, in the family's atlases.
Peakyas26 mountains within 25 kmNosakadake913 m · 9.8 kmMount Mikuni876 m · 16 kmMount Yokoyama1,132 m · 17 kmMount Sanshu1,292 m · 19 kmŌmikage-yama950 m · 21 kmSanjōga-take974 m · 23 kmMount Sanjūsangen842 m · 24 kmMount Hino794 m · 25 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.
Nakaikemi Wetland
Japan
- 47Birdyas Score
- 79Species
- 42Migrants
- 0Threatened
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q11366343) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Birds | 2,170 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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