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)

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