Taken on a very underwhelming trip to Choshi, Chiba, yesterday. ... However, we still got to see birds such as Black-tailed Gull (abundant), Glaucous Gull (a few), Glaucous-winged Gull (a few), Slaty-backed Gull (a few), Vega Gull (abundant), Black-headed Gull (abundant), Common Gull (common) and I saw one Black-legged Kittiwake. Two new species of gull, although to be honest I was hoping for Thayer's Gull as well, as both the kittiwake and Glaucous-winged are common up north. We also spotted some seabirds such as Red-necked Grebe (new bird), Great Crested Grebe, Black-necked Grebe, White-winged Scoter, Harlequin Duck (the males are stunning), Temminck's Cormorant (new bird, very abundant) and Pelagic Cormorant (another new bird, reasonably common).
coasts and islets of e Siberia, Sakhalin and Kuril Is. (se Russia), Hokkaido and Honshu (n, c Japan), Korean Pen., e China and Matsu Is. (=Lienchiang County; w of Taiwan)
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Japan, Korean Pen., East China Sea s to Philippines
Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN
Antarctica
AO
Atlantic Ocean
AU
Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL
Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO
Indian Ocean
LA
Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA
Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA
North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO
Northern oceans
OR
Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)