Gina Nichol – Japan in Winter

The winter wildlife of Japan offers a number of spectacles unmatched in the wild! Tens of thousands of cranes of at least five species can be seen feeding on snowy fields or flying in to roost against the backdrop of glorious sunsets in Kagoshima. The famous dancing Red-crowned Cranes are in full performance in Kushiro. Snow Monkeys (Japanese Macaques) frolic in hot thermal pools in the Jigokudani Valley. Japanese Murrelets come to near-shore islands to breed. Steller’s Sea-Eagles, White-tailed Eagles, and hordes of seabirds and ducks winter on and around Hokkaido. And, if you know where to go, you can watch the massive Blakiston’s Fish-Owl catch fish right out your bedroom window! This program by popular tour leader and founder of Sunrise Birding, Gina Nichol, reveals the winter wildlife of Japan with vivid photos and anecdotes from travels around this island nation of East Asia.