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This month here
0 species in January.0 species in February.0 species in March.0 species in April.66 species in May.59 species in June.60 species in July.49 species in August.45 species in September.46 species in October.0 species in November.0 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.
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- Resident all year
- Summer visitor comes to breed
- Winter visitor comes for the winter
- Passage migrant in spring and autumn
In numbers
85 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).
- 85Speciesrecorded more than once
- 61Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
- 1ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
- 1,504Recordsopen records within 6 km
- 1,416 mAltitudeabove the sea
- 5Raptors
- 1Waders
- 8Ducks & geese
- 3Herons, ibises & grebes
- 53Songbirds
- 15Other 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 85 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
- Japanese BuzzardButeo japonicus
- Hen HarrierCircus cyaneus
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Crested Honey BuzzardPernis ptilorhynchus
Waders1 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Japanese SnipeGallinago hardwickiiNT
Ducks & geese8 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Chinese Spot-billed DuckAnas zonorhyncha
- Mandarin DuckAix galericulata
- Eurasian WigeonMareca penelope
- Eurasian TealAnas crecca
- Common PochardAythya ferinaVU
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- GadwallMareca strepera
Herons, ibises & grebes3 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
Songbirds53 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Japanese Bush WarblerHorornis diphone
- Japanese Leaf WarblerPhylloscopus xanthodryas
- Asian House MartinDelichon dasypus
- Chestnut-eared BuntingEmberiza fucata
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- Japanese RobinErithacus akahige
- Bull-headed ShrikeLanius bucephalus
- Masked buntingEmberiza personata
- Eurasian JayGarrulus glandarius
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Brown-headed ThrushTurdus chrysolaus
- Cinereous TitParus cinereus
- Large-billed CrowCorvus macrorhynchos
- Willow TitPoecile montanus
- Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaea
- Red-flanked BluetailTarsiger cyanurus
- Eurasian WrenTroglodytes troglodytes
- Stejneger's StonechatSaxicola stejnegeri
- Grey BuntingEmberiza variabilis
- White WagtailMotacilla alba
- Blue-and-white FlycatcherCyanoptila cyanomelana
- Sakhalin Leaf-warblerPhylloscopus borealoides
- GoldcrestRegulus regulus
- Narcissus FlycatcherFicedula narcissina
- Poecile variusPoecile varius
- Siberian Blue RobinLuscinia cyane
- Eastern Crowned Leaf WarblerPhylloscopus coronatus
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula
- Passer cinnamomeusPasser cinnamomeus
- Northern NutcrackerNucifraga caryocatactes
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- Carrion CrowCorvus corone
- Japanese GrosbeakEophona personata
- Olive-backed PipitAnthus hodgsoni
- Janpanese ThrushTurdus cardis
- Chestnut-cheeked StarlingAgropsar philippensis
- Brown-eared BulbulHypsipetes amaurotis
- Meadow BuntingEmberiza cioides
- Asian StubtailUrosphena squameiceps
- Muscicapa latirostrisMuscicapa latirostris
- Brown DipperCinclus pallasii
- Japanese WagtailMotacilla grandis
- Dark-sided FlycatcherMuscicapa sibirica
- Grey-capped GreenfinchChloris sinica
- Eurasian TreecreeperCerthia familiaris
- Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
- Daurian RedstartPhoenicurus auroreus
- Oriental Reed WarblerAcrocephalus orientalis
- Siberian ThrushGeokichla sibirica
- White-cheeked StarlingSpodiopsar cineraceus
- Zosterops japonicusZosterops japonicus
- Barn swallowHirundo rustica
- Turdus eunomusTurdus eunomus
Other birds15 species
JFMAMJJASOND
- Common CuckooCuculus canorus
- Lesser CuckooCuculus poliocephalus
- Oriental Turtle DoveStreptopelia orientalis
- Japanese Pygmy WoodpeckerYungipicus kizuki
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Oriental CuckooCuculus optatus
- Cuculus hyperythrusCuculus hyperythrus
- Japanese Green WoodpeckerPicus awokera
- White-backed WoodpeckerDendrocopos leucotos
- Needle-tailed SwiftHirundapus caudacutus
- Copper PheasantSyrmaticus soemmerringii
- CootFulica atra
- Common KingfisherAlcedo atthis
- White-bellied Green-PigeonTreron sieboldii
- Pacific SwiftApus pacificus
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 May.
Species recorded in each month, with the usual temperature and rain.
- Jan-2°/-8°93 mm
- Feb-1°/-8°61 mm
- Mar4°/-5°88 mm
- Apr11°/0°103 mm
- May17°/6°111 mm
- Jun21°/12°147 mm
- Jul25°/16°220 mm
- Aug26°/17°179 mm
- Sep21°/13°187 mm
- Oct15°/6°170 mm
- Nov8°/1°100 mm
- Dec2°/-4°105 mm
- Bar: species recorded that month.
- Temperature: average maximum / minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Oze.
Highland in Japan
Oze is a wetland of international importance (Ramsar) in Japan, 1,416 m above the sea.
85 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 1,504 open records.
The most recorded are the Japanese Bush Warbler, the Japanese Leaf Warbler and the Asian House Martin.
60 species come for the summer, 0 for the winter and 1 only pass through.
1 are threatened worldwide, including Common Pochard.
The most species are recorded in May.
Get there and watch
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- 山ノ鼻キャンプ場campsite · 5.3 km · 5 within 10 km
- 弥四郎小屋別館place to stay · 0.3 km · 23 within 10 km
- Katashinanearest town · 11 km in a straight line
- Fukushima Airport (FKS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 110 km in a straight lineCar hire at KIJ airport (Niigata)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
- 2visitor centres within 6 km尾瀬山の鼻ビジターセンター, 尾瀬沼ビジターセンター
- 4viewpoints within 5 km三条ノ滝展望台, 平滑ノ滝展望台, 逆さ燧 and 1 more
- 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 5campsites within 10 km山ノ鼻キャンプ場, 尾瀬沼キャンプ場, 七入オートキャンプ場 and 2 more
- 23places to stay within 10 km弥四郎小屋別館, 尾瀬小屋, 桧枝岐小屋 and 20 more
- bird hides within 6 km
- observation towers within 6 km
- marked trails within 4 km
- car parks within 3 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 Oze.
The lakes, beaches, islands, rivers and mountains around this place, and its night sky, in the family's atlases.
Peakyas52 mountains within 25 kmMount Hiuchigatake2,356 m · volcano · 3.7 kmMount Shibutsu2,228 m · 8.0 kmMount Hotaka2,158 m · volcano · 18 kmYusengatake2,333 m · 18 kmMount Nikkō-Shirane2,578 m · volcano · 19 kmNikko Mountains2,578 m · 20 kmMitsudake · 22 kmMount Tarō2,368 m · volcano · 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 kmOzenuma1.7 km² · 5.2 kmMarunuma0.6 km² · 15 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 kmMount Nikkō-ShiraneBortle 3 · 19 kmLake ChūzenjiBortle 3 · 29 kmMount NantaiBortle 3 · 29 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.
Oze
Japan
- 53Birdyas Score
- 85Species
- 61Migrants
- 1Threatened
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q2043091) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Birds | 1,504 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, Darkskyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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