Summer residents of boreal and more temperate montane forests, the ruby-crowned kinglet and golden-crowned kinglet share many ...

Spring is synonymous with cherry blossoms in Japan, bringing along tourists and migratory birds like warblers and flycatchers ...

Hokkaido is home to about 1,800 of these birds--more than half the global population of red-crowned cranes, according to conservationists. Most of them inhabit eastern Hokkaido.

Adult male: the red crown is bordered by black, with a small red patch below black nape bar; the chin and throat are red, with the red color partially invading the black malar stripe that outlines ...

The head pattern is striking, with a ring of black around the base of the bill, a red crown patch, a white forecrown narrowly connected to the yellow-­tinged white throat, and black sides of the ...

The reserve has become home to tens of thousands of migratory birds, including rare species such as the red-crowned crane, white-naped crane, and Oriental white stork.