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Ota Ward – Tokyo Port Wild Bird Park (including Tidal Pond)
198 species and 30,940 records in eBird up to 2024-12-31.
Best months: March–April and September–November, with up to 79 species seen regularly.
Seen here in November
Eurasian CootFulica atra
Grey HeronArdea cinerea
Brown-eared BulbulHypsipetes amaurotis
Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
Great EgretArdea alba
Large-billed CrowCorvus macrorhynchos
Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
Eastern Spot-billed DuckAnas zonorhyncha
MallardAnas platyrhynchos
White WagtailMotacilla alba
Eurasian TealAnas crecca
Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
Little EgretEgretta garzettaSpecies seen regularly, by month
Species with 3 or more records in that month, all years combined.
Nearby hotspots
- Ota Ward – Tama River – Rokugobashi Green Space6 km97 species
- Minato Ward – Meguro Institute for Nature Study8 km81 species
- Chuo Ward – Hamarikyu Gardens9 km102 species
- Ota Ward – Tama River – Maruko Weir (Tokyo)9 km88 species
- Chiyoda Ward – Hibiya Park10 km83 species
- Chiyoda Ward – Imperial Palace – Hibiya Moat10 km62 species
All 198 species recorded here
- Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
- Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
- Large-billed Crow Corvus macrorhynchos
- Eastern Spot-billed Duck Anas zonorhyncha
- Little Egret Egretta garzetta
- Great Egret Ardea alba
- Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
- Brown-eared Bulbul Hypsipetes amaurotis
- Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
- White Wagtail Motacilla alba
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
- White-cheeked Starling Spodiopsar cineraceus
- Cinereous Tit Parus cinereus
- Eurasian Coot Fulica atra
- Oriental Turtle Dove Streptopelia orientalis
- Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis
- Warbling White-eye Zosterops japonicus
- Little Ringed Plover Thinornis dubius
- Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula
- Black Kite Milvus migrans
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus kizuki
- Bull-headed Shrike Lanius bucephalus
- Eurasian Wigeon Mareca penelope
- Grey-tailed Tattler Tringa brevipes
- Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
- Carrion Crow Corvus corone
- Eastern Buzzard Buteo japonicus
- Rock Dove Columba livia
- Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
- Dusky Thrush Turdus eunomus
- Striated Heron Butorides striata
- Black-tailed Gull Larus crassirostris
- Oriental Greenfinch Chloris sinica
- Asian House Martin Delichon dasypus
- Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Masked Bunting Emberiza personata
- Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Gadwall Mareca strepera
- Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
- House Swift Apus nipalensis
- Daurian Redstart Phoenicurus auroreus
- Japanese Bush Warbler Horornis diphone
- Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
- Oriental Reed Warbler Acrocephalus orientalis
- Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
- Azure-winged Magpie Cyanopica cyanus
- Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Common Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus
- Medium Egret Ardea intermedia
- Little Tern Sternula albifrons
- Pale Thrush Turdus pallidus
- Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
- Japanese Wagtail Motacilla grandis
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
- Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus
- Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius
- Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus
- Chestnut-cheeked Starling Agropsar philippensis
- Zitting Cisticola Cisticola juncidis
- Chinese Hwamei Garrulax canorus
- Brown-headed Thrush Turdus chrysolaus
- Falcated Duck Mareca falcata
- Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
- Long-billed Plover Thinornis placidus
- Grey-streaked Flycatcher Muscicapa griseisticta
- Narcissus Flycatcher Ficedula narcissina
- Garganey Spatula querquedula
- Siberian Pipit Anthus japonicus
- Dunlin Calidris alpina
- Japanese Cormorant Phalacrocorax capillatus
- Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis
- Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus
- Vega Gull Larus vegae
- Hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes
- Slaty-backed Gull Larus schistisagus
- Common Gull Larus canus
- Meadow Bunting Emberiza cioides
- Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
- Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis
- Ruddy-breasted Crake Zapornia fusca
- Brown-cheeked Rail Rallus indicus
- Varied Tit Sittiparus varius
- Asian Brown Flycatcher Muscicapa dauurica
- Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis
- Brambling Fringilla montifringilla
- Grey-faced Buzzard Butastur indicus
- Eastern Cattle Egret Ardea coromanda
- Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
- Kentish Plover Anarhynchus alexandrinus
- Smew Mergellus albellus
- Eurasian Bittern Botaurus stellaris
- Eastern Crowned Warbler Phylloscopus coronatus
- Pacific Swift Apus pacificus
- Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri
- Kamchatka Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus examinandus
- Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- Yellow Bittern Botaurus sinensis
- Blue-and-white Flycatcher Cyanoptila cyanomelana
- Oriental Cuckoo Cuculus optatus
- Japanese Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza gularis
- Ashy Minivet Pericrocotus divaricatus
- Long-tailed Shrike Lanius schach
- Eurasian Jay Garrulus glandarius
- Coal Tit Periparus ater
- Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
- Eastern Marsh Harrier Circus spilonotus
- Amur Stonechat Saxicola stejnegeri
- Japanese Waxwing Bombycilla japonica
- Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
- Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva
- Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
- Baikal Teal Sibirionetta formosa
- Ryukyu Minivet Pericrocotus tegimae
- Sakhalin Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus borealoides
- Red-flanked Bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus
- Rustic Bunting Emberiza rustica
- Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla
- Bohemian Waxwing Bombycilla garrulus
- Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
- White-bellied Green Pigeon Treron sieboldii
- Japanese Green Woodpecker Picus awokera
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Chinese Pond Heron Ardeola bacchus
- Eurasian Siskin Spinus spinus
- Asian Dowitcher Limnodromus semipalmatus
- Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
- Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Sand Martin Riparia riparia
- Sanderling Calidris alba
- Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
- American Wigeon Mareca americana
- Eurasian Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula
- Olive-backed Pipit Anthus hodgsoni
- Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus
- Eyebrowed Thrush Turdus obscurus
- Japanese Thrush Turdus cardis
- Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major
- Common Redshank Tringa totanus
- Black Paradise Flycatcher Terpsiphone atrocaudata
- Mute Swan Cygnus olor
- Grey-headed Lapwing Vanellus cinereus
- Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
- Ochre-rumped Bunting Emberiza yessoensis
- Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta
- Grey Bunting Emberiza variabilis
- Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena
- Eurasian Wren Troglodytes troglodytes
- White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys
- Black-browed Reed Warbler Acrocephalus bistrigiceps
- Siberian Long-tailed Rosefinch Carpodacus sibiricus
- Common Merganser Mergus merganser
- Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus
- Eastern Yellow Wagtail Motacilla tschutschensis
- Oriental Dollarbird Eurystomus orientalis
- Latham's Snipe Gallinago hardwickii
- White-backed Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucotos
- Great Frigatebird Fregata minor
- Eastern Red-rumped Swallow Cecropis daurica
- White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus
- Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus
- Masked Laughingthrush Pterorhinus perspicillatus
- Rook Corvus frugilegus
- Naumann's Thrush Turdus naumanni
- White-rumped Munia Lonchura striata
- White's Thrush Zoothera aurea
- Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus
- Dark-sided Flycatcher Muscicapa sibirica
- Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
- White-shouldered Starling Sturnia sinensis
- Eurasian Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus
- Goldcrest Regulus regulus
- Yellow-browed Warbler Phylloscopus inornatus
- Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
- Yellow-throated Bunting Emberiza elegans
- Ruff Calidris pugnax
- Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
- Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
- Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus
- Ruddy Kingfisher Halcyon coromanda
- Japanese Robin Larvivora akahige
- Pacific Reef Heron Egretta sacra
- Red-billed Leiothrix Leiothrix lutea
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Pelagic Cormorant Urile pelagicus
- Green Pheasant Phasianus versicolor
- Streaked Shearwater Calonectris leucomelas
- Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola
- Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Crested Myna Acridotheres cristatellus
Most recorded first. Species we protect from disturbance aren't listed.
Questions
When is the best time to go birding at Ota Ward – Tokyo Port Wild Bird Park (including Tidal Pond)?
March–April and September–November. That's when the most species are seen regularly here, up to 79 in a month.
How many bird species have been seen at Ota Ward – Tokyo Port Wild Bird Park (including Tidal Pond)?
198 species, from 30,940 eBird records up to 2024-12-31.
What birds can I see at Ota Ward – Tokyo Port Wild Bird Park (including Tidal Pond) in November?
The most recorded in November: Eurasian Coot, Grey Heron, Brown-eared Bulbul, Little Grebe and Great Cormorant.
eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.