BirdLife EBA Factsheet

General characteristics These Japanese islands, which are an extention of the Izu-Ogasawara chain (see map, p. 454), are a Secondary Area because one restricted-range species, Japanese Wood-pigeon Columba janthina, occurred on Kita-iwo-jima and Iwo-jima, but became extinct during the early 1980s. The species survives in the Nansei, Izu, Ogasawara and other Japanese and Korean offshore islands (EBAs 146, 147 and 148, and Secondary Area s092).

Secondary area A secondary area is an area which supports one or more restricted-range bird species, but does not qualify as an Endemic Bird Area because fewer than two species are entirely confined to it.

Citation BirdLife International 2003 BirdLife's online World Bird Database: the site for bird conservation. Version 2.0. Cambridge, UK: BirdLife International. Available: http://www.birdlife.org (accessed 10/2/2010)

Note Information presented in this factsheet reflects that published in ‘Endemic Bird Areas of the World’ (BirdLife International, 1998). As such, there may be discrepancies between this information and that presented in BirdLife’s (more recently updated) species and IBA factsheets. We plan to revise the EBA analysis in the near future to take account of these and other changes.