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Sado Wildlife in Focus | Sparrows Swarm Rice Fields as Harvest Nears
1+ hour, 11+ min ago (800+ words) A sparrow in a sunflower field, its brown plumage contrasting with the bright yellow flowers. (©Fumie Oyama) On Sado Island, daytime temperatures still climb above 30°C (86°F), but by late August, the mornings and evenings are beginning to feel cooler....
Crested Ibises Released on Japan's Main Island for First Time
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (930+ words) The first Japanese crested ibis release ceremony on Honshu, attended by Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko—May 31, Hakui, Ishikawa Prefecture. The ibises' wings are colored to help identify individual birds. (©Sankei/Kazuya Kamogawa) On May 31, Ishikawa Prefecture released…...
Sado Wildlife in Focus | Ballerina of the Rice Fields
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (434+ words) Black-winged stilts lined up together look like ballerinas on stage. (©Fumie Oyama) Last time, I wrote about the Eurasian curlew, a rare migratory visitor to these parts. But this time, it was the graceful black-winged stilt, sometimes called the "ballerina…...
Sado Wildlife in Focus | An Unexpected Visitor in the Paddy Fields
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (362+ words) JAPAN Forward I had my camera ready as usual when a long-beaked silhouette caught my eye, reflected on the surface of a rice paddy. For a split second, I thought it was an ibis, but something was clearly off. The…...
Sado Wildlife in Focus | Tractors Turn Rice Fields into a Bird Paradise
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (439+ words) Late spring has finally arrived on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture, nestled in the Sea of Japan. With it, the rice fields come alive as farmers begin plowing in preparation for the season. Among those most eagerly awaiting this work…...
Sado Wildlife in Focus | Why Nearly 100 Ibises Vanished in a Year
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (720+ words) Since their first release into the wild in 2008, their population had been steadily increasing. So when the committee reported that their numbers had suddenly dropped by roughly 100 in a single year, I was desperate to understand what had happened. The…...