Description: A comprehensive and fully illustrated field guide to the birds of Japan, covering all 738 species.
Brief description:
Mark Brazil is a widely travelled field ornithologist and an experienced writer. He received a doctorate for his studies of the behavioural ecology of the Whooper Swan in Scotland and Iceland. His interest in swans has continued and he spends part of each winter studying them in Hokkaido, where he is currently Professor of Biodiversity and Conservation at Rakuno Gakuen University, Hokkaido. His main research interests have centred around East Asian birds, particularly the Japanese avifauna.
Mark is the author of The Birds of Japan (Helm, 1991), The Whooper Swan (Poyser, 2003), Field Guide to Birds of East Asia (Helm, 2009) and Field Guide to the Birds of Japan (Helm, 2019). He has written research and review papers on a wide range of species and has contributed a regular column on natural history to The Japan Times newspaper continuously since 1982.Review Quotes:
"The text and illustrations are all very clean and straightforward and easy to use ... Anyone planning a birding trip to Japan needs this guide!" --BTO News
"A must have for those birding Japan!" --The Birdbooker Report