Japan
What is recorded in Japan
- Species
- 8,178
- Grid cells
- 39,971
- Records
- 1,662,945
- Years covered
- 1980-2026
- Insects 5,833
- Bony fish 1,812
- Birds 307
- Mammals 62
- Reptiles 60
- Amphibians 53
- Sharks and rays 50
- Chimaeras 1
These are species with at least one recorded territory in Japan, not a national checklist: a bird list from eBird or Avibase is more complete. The counts follow recording effort as much as wildlife, so a country with more visitors and more naturalists will show more of both.
Most recorded here
The species with the most open occurrence records in Japan, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.
Brown-eared Bulbul
Hypsipetes amaurotis
Eastern Spot-billed Duck
Anas zonorhyncha
White-cheeked Starling
Spodiopsar cineraceus
Cinereous Tit
Parus cinereus
Oriental Turtle Dove
Streptopelia orientalis
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
Passer montanus
Large-billed Crow
Corvus macrorhynchos
Japanese White-eye
Zosterops japonicus
Japanese Bush Warbler
Horornis diphone
Grey-capped Greenfinch
Chloris sinica
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker
Yungipicus kizuki
Dusky Thrush
Turdus eunomus
No regions recorded yet
The reference database has no regions filed under Japan.
Nothing written up here yet
The field guide covers Japan on the map, but none of its species have an entry written for them yet.