500 Important Wetlands in Japan
Ibaraki, Chiba

No.131
Tone-gawa Downstream Area
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Criteria for selection:2,4
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Kamisu

City:C/Town:T/
Village:V
Wetland type Biota Habitat Reason for selection
Ibaraki:
Kamisu T,
Hasaki T
Chiba:
Omigawa T,
Tonosho T
Riverbeds Shorebirds Tone-gawa
downstream area
Sandy shore of Hasaki, and river beds at Kamisu and Yatabe-nishimaejuku. Visitation of more than 1% of the minimum estimated population of Numenius phaeopus, Tringa erythropus, Crocethia alba, Arenaria interpres and Haematopus ostralegus, and more than 0.25% of that of Charadrius mongolus, Calidris alpina, Heteroscelus brevipes and Pluvialis fulva has been recorded.
Other birds Omigawa and
Tonosho
Habitat of Megalurus pryeri.

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