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Please use the options below to view photos from specific places or of particular creatures. Alternatively, scroll though the pictures using the arrows at the bottom of the page.
The very different looking endemic 'Great Tit' on Ishigaki Island in the southern Ryukyus. Surely this is not the same species as the bird below! It has virtually no wingbars, no green in the mantle, no pale nape area, dingy underparts and a reduced white cheek! Not only that, but it sounds different...(Pete Morris)
Japanese Tit, Karuizawa, Japan. Part of the 'minor' group which is often split from Great Tit as Japanese Tit. How can this and the Ishigaki Tit be the same species!
Another view of the Ishigaki Tit taken on Ishigaki-jima in June 2007 (Pete Morris)
Our first visit to the Bonin Islands in June 2007 was a great success. The endemic Bonin Honeyeater (now known to be a white-eye!) was common and seabirding on the way and on the way back was superb! (Pete Morris)
Another view of the Bonin Honeyeater (Pete Morris)
We had some great seawatching during the passage to the Bonin Islands during the optional extension. Bonin Petrels were common and often quite close to the boat. Photography was not easy though as the boat was effectively a huge hotel moving at 45km/h! (Pete Morris)
The rarely seen Matsudaira's Storm-Petrel photographed on the way to the Bonin Islands, June 2007 (Pete Morris)
Bulwer's Petrel photographed on the way to the Bonin Islands, Japan, June 2007
One of several of the endemic forms surely worthy of specific status is Owston's Tit, the very different Izu Island form of Varied Tit
This male Okinawa (or Pryer's) Woodpecker is just one of a few hundred left and was photographed during our summer 2007 tour (Pete Morris)