Abstract

The spectacled guillemot who has the bright red-oragne foot is the rare seabird you can only see in the east bank of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Sea of Okhotsk, and the northern part of the Sea of Japan. The book shows their everyday lives, with much attention to their passionate and pretty courting behaviors in Teuri Island of Hokkaido, by using a lot of valuable photographs. Including the detailed commentary of the biology of the spectacled guillemot.

Author’s Information

Takaki Terasawa is living in Teuri Island of Hokkaido ever since he has visited the island as an elementary school teacher in 1982. He has engaged seabirds conservation and research activities while starting his career as a photographer. He opened the Teuri Island Visitor Center in 1999, and has been exhibiting his works concerning natural environment protection movement.