White-naped Cranes also overwinter in Kyushu before heading NW over Russia to their Mongolian breeding grounds. There were approx 3000 White-naped Cranes this year on Kyushu
A bird you will all be familiar with. We saw two vagrant Sandhills in Kyushu and one Common Crane. Just occasionally you get a Demoiselle and every 10 years or so a Siberian Crane pitches up - a bird I would just love to see