Japan does not have an official national animal, but the green pheasant (Phasianus versicolour) is widely recognised as the ...

Say hello to the Shima Enaga, a subspecies of the long-tailed tit found in Japan. With its fluffy white coat and beady black ...

"Nobody wanted to hire Japanese," she said. So they turned to the skill they had learned in camp, and made and sold bird pins for the next 40 years. Over time, they became the craft's most famous ...

The center’s nickname derives from the Izu thrush, or “akakokko” in Japanese, a member of the ... natural monument and the official bird symbol of Miyake village, which comes under Tokyo ...

A small-bird species called the Japanese tit (Parus minor) also may also use this more complex form of communication. In a study published March 25 Current Biology, a team from the University of ...

Now researchers have found, in a particularly polite example, the first documented evidence of a symbolic gesture used by birds. When entering their nest box, Japanese Tits (Parus minor ...