In 2011, in the spring, there will be a tour, both interesting 
and enjoyable, scheduled for breeding and migrant birds, 
with a visit to very small island in the Sea of Japan that is a tremendous bird-migrant trap. All that it has been during 
each of the 7 visits we've made there in the past, 
during our Japan Birding & Nature Tour in the Spring. 
That very small island in the Sea of Japan is called Hegura. 
On it, a large total of 180 species of birds have been seen 
during our tours. A number of them have been birds 
more common on mainland Asia than in Japan. 

Also In 2011, FONT will again do, in January, 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. 
Highlights, as in the past, are to be the cranes, sea-eagles, 
and fish-owl.
Following the January 2011 Japan Winter Tour, there will an 
optional extension on the southern Japanese island of 
Amami, particularly for the endemic & specialty birds that 
occur there. 

There's still, as of now, availability on the upcoming FONT 
Birding & Nature Tours scheduled for 2011 (in January, May,
& in October; the last of these mostly on the northern 
Japanese island of Hokkaido).  
       
Itineraries and other information regarding the tours follow.