The surveys of bird community in the montane zone on the northern slope of Mt. Fuji were conducted 20 times from 2012 through 2015 during the breeding season and wintering seasons. Twenty-three families and 48 species of birds were recorded. The dominant bird species during the breeding season (13.6% of the total observations), was the Red-billed Leiothrix Leiothrix lutea, followed by the Japanese Bush Warbler Cettia diphone (12.8%), Siberian Blue Robin Luscinia cyane (11.6%), Narcissus Flycatcher Ficedula narcissina (9.5%) and Coal Tit Periparus ater (9.3%). The dominant species during the wintering season was the Coal Tit, accounting for 31.6% of the total observations, followed by the Eurasian Nuthatch Sitta europaea (10.3%), Willow Tit Poecile montanus (8.2%), Brambling Fringilla montifringilla (7.1%) and Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus (5.0%).
