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NORTHERN JAPAN PRIMARILY WHITE TAILED AND STELLER'S SEA EAGLES
MAR 1 TO MAR. 7, 2012 COST TO TBD.
Our newest workshop has been added do to numerous requests for a Northern Hokkaido trip targeting exclusively Steller's Sea Eagles, White Tailed Sea Eagles, Blakiston Fish Owl, Red Crowned Cranes and Japanese Kites. This will be 9 day 8 nights and will include a minimum of 3 trips to the pack ice. We will also visit lake Furen for a day of feeding Sea Eagles and on any day that a boat is canceled to the pack ice we will also go to Lake Furen for feeding. We will have dinner one evening at a location where a very rare a pair of Blakiston's Fish Owls visits nightly. The ice season in 2009 has been thinner then normal and frequently has failed to come around the tip of Hokkaido leaving a 45 minute trip to the ice locations and some cancellations on a single day basis. This season has also experienced a diminishing ice cycle in the north western portions of the island.
The primary interest in this workshop will be to avail images from the pack ice with alternate locations utilized on any day the ice or boat is unavailable.
We will also spend two days working from Kushiro for rare red crowned cranes.
This workshop will begin and end at Kushiro airport Hokkaido. The cost will be determined as soon as we have commitments for the transportation, hotel and pack ice boat company.
Blakiston's fish owls are in the red list category and are endangered. It is one of the largest and rarest of all owls. There are 500 pairs remaining.
Steller's Sea Eagle Out of a world population of 5,000 approximately 2,000 birds come to Hokkaido from Russia along with the drift and pack ice.
White Tailed Sea Eagle
Red Crowned Crane returning from near extinction there are about 1,000 today mostly living in the Nemuro Kushiro area. This crane is designated as a national treasure by the Japanese.
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