Wild Japan
@Wild_Japan_News and information on Japanese nature, wildlife/birding and conservation. Run by @Jamie_Rhodes. 日本の自然、動物に関する情報発信
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One of the first trees to bloom in spring, Magnolia kobus (コブシ, "Kobushi") has long been tied to Japanese agriculture and the planting season. Read more about folk beliefs and practices in Japan surrounding this early bloomer: tokyonaturalist.com/post/magnolia-… #citynature #tokyo
Ezo red foxes and Lake Shikotsu (a caldera lake in Chitose, Hokkaido)
Crested kingfisher (Megaceryle lugubris) - what a beauty
A exhausted juvenile Buller's Shearwater on the sandy beach in Chiba Pref,Japan. 27th Jun 2020. The body was warm and soft when I found so I think it hasn't been so long since this bird passed away.
Get outside every day, discover something that makes your soul happy 😊✨
Today is a good day for hermit crab finding.
#Kyoto is not all about temples & shrines. In northwestern Kyoto, the locals of #Kyotango are saving the renowned #SingingSands of Kotohikihama-Bay and its coastal area facing the Sea of Japan from #MarinePlasitcLitter: lnky.jp/ldJ1Nkc #WeAreTomodachi #BeatMarinePollution
Swallows nesting in ... instant noodles pots?! The manager of this furniture store fixed the pots in place after noticing that the birds were trying in vain to make soil stick to the lighting above the carpark - and they soon took to their new nests! (Aira, Kagoshima pref.)
Bonin white-eye (Apalopteron familiare): a small, near-threatened and fruit eating songbird found only on the Bonin islands (approx. 1,000 km south of Tokyo). Particularly vulnerable to introduced cats, the islands are now protected to help save this species from extinction.
Did you know around 70% of Japan is covered in forest? (similar % cover as Sweden/Finland) Ranging from boreal and subalpine forests in the North to tropical rainforests in the South - these forests are home to a diverse range of species found only in Japan.
Shiretoko Peninsula is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Hokkaido. Largely covered in inaccesible old-growth forest, the peninsula and surrounding seas contain a plethora of species: sperm whale, orca, brown bears, sea eagles, sika deer, are just a few #知床 @shiretoko_NC
#SpeciesOfTheDay - Ussuri brown bear (Ursus arctos lasiotus): Found on Hokkaido. Weighing as much as 250kg, nothing quite captures the raw power of nature as this subspecies of brown bear. Shiretoko peninsula is thought to have the highest pop. density of brown bears in the world
Whether you are in Japan or maybe even the Norfolk broads, the call of the cuckoo is unmistakable
If you come across a Japanese serow in the wild, more often than not they will not make any attempt to run away. This is perhaps due to the fact that since their designation as a nationally protected speicies in 1955 they have hardly been hunted by humans.
Azure-winged magpie courtship feeding
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