Site Report: Kyoto - Imperial Palace
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Palaces and forest in the middle of Kyoto
Visits
- 2024-02-29: On the way back to the Kyoto Station, we took a detour getting out of the subway to walk through the Imperial Garden. It was raining even harder and nearly freezing. This might have been a blessing because the palace was nearly devoid of tourists as we walked through. We got a very close encounter with a raptor in the gardens, but I had just put my camera away due to the rain. We got back on the subway and continued to Kyoto Station where we got lost again. Then, we looked at every restaurant before Barbara found some random place on the internet. After a lot of walking around, we actually found the restaurant even though the sign was all Japanese.
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (14 records)
Phylum: Chordates
(14 records)
Class: Birds
(14 records)
- Order: Doves and Pigeons
(1 record)
- Family: Pigeons and Doves
- Oriental Turtle-Dove (Streptopelia orientalis)
- Order: Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies
(2 records)
- Family: Hawks, Eagles, and Kites
- Black Kite (Milvus migrans)
- Eastern Buzzard (Buteo japonicus)
- Order: Pelicans
(1 record)
- Family: Cormorants
- Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
- Order: Perching Birds
(10 records)
- Family: Bulbuls
- Brown-eared Bulbul (Hypsipetes amaurotis)
- Family: Bushtits
- Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus)
- Family: Chickadees and Titmice
- Varied Tit (Sittiparus varius)
- Asian Tit (Parus cinereus)
- Family: Jays and Crows
- Carrion Crow (Corvus corone)
- Large-billed Crow (Corvus macrorhynchos)
- Family: Thrushes and Allies
- Dusky Thrush (Turdus eunomus)
- Family: Wagtails and Pipits
- Japanese Wagtail (Motacilla grandis)
- Olive-backed Pipit (Anthus hodgsoni)
- Family: White-eyes
- Warbling White-eye (Zosterops japonicus)