Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For roughly a decade, a quiet mystery played out across two remote Japanese island chains. Birds that looked virtually identical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before the Tokara Leaf Warbler was characterized as its own species, it was believed to be similar to the Ijima's Leaf Warbler.

There are many surprises that nature has in store for us, and one such surprise has been unearthed in the island country of Japan. In a research that has sent shockwaves across the world of ...

For decades, birdwatchers in Japan thought they were looking at the same little green songbird flitting through mountain forests on two far‑flung island chains. It took high‑tech DNA tests and careful ...

A bird long thought to be a single rare species in Japan has turned out to be two. Scientists discovered that the elusive Ijima’s Leaf Warbler and a newly identified Tokara Leaf Warbler look almost ...

For decades, the research community thought that the small, olive-green songbirds found on two Japanese islands were identical. But a new study has revealed these birds are actually two distinct ...

TOKYO >> A new bird species has been confirmed in Japan for the first time in 45 years. A team from the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology and the Forest Research and Management Organization ...