{"id":49493,"date":"2013-10-05T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnandrewwright.com\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:35:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:35:24","slug":"recent-birding-tour-of-northwestern-kyushu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/recent-birding-tour-of-northwestern-kyushu\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Birding Tour of Northwestern Kyushu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between September 16 and 19 I led a couple from Canada around birding spots in Kumamoto, Nagasaki, Saga, Fukuoka and Oita prefectures. Before the tour started, I took the ferry across to Kumamoto from Shimabara, spotting a large flock of Streaked Shearwater just out from Shimabara Port, and then Brown Booby as the ferry neared Kumamoto Port.<\/p>\n

I stopped for a while at Edu Lake, where the most interesting bird was a juvenile Whiskered Tern. I then headed out to Aso-Kumamoto Airport to pick up my guests, who were lucky to be only slightly delayed by Typhoon Man-yi. Indeed the typhoon had cleared out many birds, and delayed the arrival of more migrants, so the birding was a bit slow and good views of species difficult to obtain.<\/p>\n

We saw 82 species overall, and over three days visited the Aso highlands, Edu Lake, Mt Unzen, Mt Hiyamizu, Kabashima, Daijyugarami and Mt Hiko.<\/p>\n

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Between September 16 and 19 I led a couple from Canada around birding spots in Kumamoto, Nagasaki, Saga, Fukuoka and Oita prefectures. Before the tour started, I took the ferry across to Kumamoto from Shimabara, spotting a large flock of Streaked Shearwater just out from Shimabara Port, and then Brown Booby as the ferry neared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2193140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/ruddy-turnstone-2581-1024x682.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Recent Birding Tour of Northwestern Kyushu","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1138,2417,1643,3716,1161,1135,7835,2449,1670,2975,921,4496,1680,3947,2814],"class_list":["post-49493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-broad-billed-sandpiper","tag-brown-booby","tag-curlew-sandpiper","tag-daijyugarami","tag-honey-buzzard","tag-intermediate-egret","tag-japan","tag-john-andrew-wright","tag-little-grebe","tag-long-billed-dowitcher","tag-oriental-honey-buzzard","tag-pacific-swift","tag-ruddy-turnstone","tag-shimabara","tag-whiskered-tern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2193140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}