{"id":337216,"date":"2026-03-19T09:58:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/337216\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:58:24","slug":"new-bird-species-found-in-japan-for-first-time-in-45-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/337216\/","title":{"rendered":"New bird species found in Japan for first time in 45 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An international research team including Japan&#8217;s Yamashina Institute for Ornithology said Wednesday that it has discovered a new bird species in the Tokara Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture.<\/p>\n<p>The new bird, named the Tokara leaf warbler, or Phylloscopus tokaraensis, is the first bird species to be given a scientific name in Japan since 1981, when the Okinawa rail was named Gallirallus okinawae.<\/p>\n<p>The team, which also included researchers from Japan&#8217;s Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, found that the Tokara leaf warbler is genetically and morphologically distinct from the Iijima&#8217;s leaf warbler, which has long been considered the same species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An international research team including Japan&#8217;s Yamashina Institute for Ornithology said Wednesday that it has discovered a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[50,19976,180597,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-337216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-animals","tag-birds","tag-kagoshima-prefecture","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}