In 2012 & 2013, FONT plans to do once again its annual 
Winter Birding & Nature Tour on the Japanese islands of 
Honshu, Hokkaido, & Kyushu, including, as in the past, 
a day of pelagic birding onboard a ferry, but the tour
will be in February, instead of January. 
Highlights, as in the past, will still to be the cranes, 
sea eagles, and fish owl.
Following our 2012 & 2013 Japan Winter Tour, there will 
an optional extension on the southern Japanese island 
of Amami, particularly for the endemic & specialty birds 
that occur there. 

Also in 2012, we plan to do a special tour in the spring
that will include the subtropical Ogasawara Islands
(as they are called in Japanese). 
Their English name: the Bonin Islands.
Some of the birds of those islands are now extinct,
but there are still interesting ones to see, including
the Bonin Honeycreeper, endemic to one of the islands,
the one on which we'll stay.
And the seabirding should be extraordinary 
during the pelagic trips onboard large ferries 
to and from the islands, passing near Torishima,
the island with the Short-tailed Albatross.

In 2012, we have a tour scheduled in the fall to the
northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

There is, as of now, availability on the upcoming FONT 
Birding & Nature Tours scheduled for 2012 
(in February into March & in May & October).  
       
Itineraries and other information regarding the tours follow.