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Ozaki Kiyoaki,
Deputy Director General, Senior Researcher
e-mail: ozaki(a)yamashina.or.jp (Please replace (a) with @)
Experience Summary
Forty years as a wildlife biologist and conservationist working in Japan and South-east Asian countries, and 43 years as a bird ringer (registered by the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology). Special interests include Okinawa Rail, Short-tailed Albatross, Japanese Crested Ibis, Black-faced Spoonbill, White-naped and Hooded Cranes and Turns, Shorebirds. Studies have included general feeding ecology, conservation biology and migration.
Responsible for running the bird banding program in Japan since 1995. I have organized and/or participated in (as an instructor) banding training programs in Japan, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Russia, and Australia.
I organized and participated in a satellite tracking study of the migration of Short-tailed Albatross, Cranes, Swans and Goose, Black-faced Spoonbills and Saunders’s Gulls from Japan, Korea, China, Mongol and Russia.
Education
B.Sc. Biology, Toho University, Narashino, Japan
PhD, Science, Toho University, Graduate School of Science, Narashino, Japan
Professional Experience
| Deputy Director General, Yamashina Institute for Ornithology | 2010 - present |
| Chief, Division of Avian Conservation(Bird Migration Research Center) , Yamashina Institute for Ornithology | 1995 - 2017 |
| Researcher, Bird Migration Research Center, Yamashina Institute for Ornithology | 1976 - 1995 |
Auxiliary Positions
Member of the Central Environmental Council, Ministry of the Environment President of Ornithological Society of Japan(since 2018).
USA: Short-tailed Albatross recovery team member
Japan: Short-tailed Albatross recovery program committee member
Japan: Okinawa Rail recovery program committee member
Japan: Okinawa Woodpecker recovery program committee member
Japan: Crested Ibis reintroduction program committee member
Japan: Red Data Book committee member
Awards
US Fish and Wildlife Service, Recovery Champion for 2008 (received as a Short-tailed Albatross project leader of Yamashina Institute for Ornithology)
