Self Introduction
Regarding birdwatching | |
When am I started bird watching? | When I was a junior high school student, my father took me to Koya-ike pond. |
How long have I been birding? | Approximately 25 years. (just long....) |
lLifelist | Approx. 410 in Japan. Totally, about 2130 species |
Impressive/favourite birds (bird group) | Generally, I am interested in beautiful or odd birds. Satyr Tragopan, Himalayan Monal, Baikal Teal, Falcated Teal, Scaly-sided Merganser, Bufflehead, Amur Red-footed Falcon, falconets, Pectoral Sandpiper, owls, fruit-doves, Brush Bronzewing, Spinifex Pigeon, Partridge Pigeon, kingfishers, hornbills, Asian Emerald Cuckoo, piculets, toucans, trongons, bee-eaters, motmots, hummingbirds, malkohas, Australian parrots, pittas, broadbills, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, waxwings, robins, White-throated Rock Thrush, Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Narcissus Flycatcher, White-rumped Flycatcher, blue flycatchers, Cutia, Silver-eared Mesia, fairy-wrens,, emu-wrens, grasswrens, Australian robins, monarch flycatchers, quail-thrushes, Varied Tit, sunbirds, Pine Bunting, Tristram's Bunting, Yellow-throated Bunting, Chestnut Bunting, Grey Bunting, Japanese Yellow Bunting, Snow Bunting, Indigo Bunting, Golden-hooded Tanager, Spangle-cheeked Tanager, Silver-throated Tanager, honeycreepers, Asian Rosy Finch, Pallas's Rosefinch, Green Magpie, Malaysian Rail Babbler, woodswallows, birds of paradise, Golden Bowerbird, Regent Bowerbird |
Targetted species/group | King & Spectacled Eiders, Stilt Sandpiper, Great Bastard, Lesser Florican, Princess Parrot, coquets, sand grouses, fruit-doves, Bay Owl, White-fronted Bee-eater, Red-throated Bee-eater, Carmine Bee-eater, Long-tailed Manakin, pittas, umbrellabirds, cock-a-rock, rockjumpers, Orange-headed Thrush, redstarts, wheatears, cochoas, Sapphire Flycatcher, Nillavas, Celestial Monarch, Rufous Paradise Flycatcher, Blue Fantail, Parrotbills, Black Grasswren, Dusky Grasswren, American warblers, Varied Bunting, Painted Bunting, tanagers, Red-eared Firetail, Painted Finch |
Favourite birding spots | - Outback Australia - Royal National Park, NSW, Australia - Lamington National Park, QLD, Australia - Ibraki-benten - Togakushi - Kabukuri-numa - Lake Biwa - Clouded Forest in Costa Rica - Fraser's Hill - Danum Valley |
Non-birding issues | |
Birth of origin, past(present) addresses | Kawanishi¨Ibaraki¨Yamagata¨Ibaraki¨Wollongong¨Forest Hill¨Yokohama¨Kuala
Lumpur¨Ibaraki¨Takatsuki¨Fujisawa¨Kota Kinabalu¨Melbourne¨Ibaraki ¨Yokohama Since I often move,I am financially poor.... |
jobs | wildlife conservation, nature conservation, wetland conservation issues |
Favourite musics | Japanese Zabadak: "Sora-tobu-yume" cool! 135 Mizinkov Kai Band "Yuwaku" Takuji Oyama uHimawari£ SION "ShunkaShuto", "Yorushika Oyogenai" Yukadan "Rolling Steady" Rock & Pops Cowboy Junkies "Caution Horses":@cool! Counting Crows "This Desert Life" Hootie & the Blowfish "Fairweather Johnson" Hooters "One Way Home" Jewel "Spirit" Levellers: "Mouth to Mouth" Natalie Marchant: "Ophelia"F@cool! Radiohead "The Bends": cool! REM "Automatic for the People": cool!,,"New Adventures in Hi-Fi" Tom Waits "Rain Dog", "Mule Variations" JAZZ Miles Davis: "Kind of Blue" Hank Mobley: "No room for Squares" cool! Kenny Burrell: "Midnight Blue" cool! Bill Evans "Waltz for Debby", "Alone" cool! |
Photograph | Taking photos more than 20 years. I mainly take photos of natural creature, such as landscape, birds, flowers and insects. |
Books | Prefers real novels rather than mistery. Miyuki Miyabe, Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Yoichi Funato etc. |
in China@(© 2002, M. Tokuda) |