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Deguchi Tomohiro,
Researcher, Chief of Division of Avian Conservation

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Peer-reviewed papers
  1. Rachael A. Orben, Amelia J. O’Connor, Robert M. Suryan, Kiyoaki Ozaki, Fumio Sato, Tomohiro Deguchi. Ontogenetic changes in at-sea distributions of immature short-tailed albatrosses Phoebastria albatrus. Endangered Species Research (In press).
  2. Mariko Senda, Tomohiro Deguchi, Shigemoto Komeda, Yoshimitsu Shigeta, Fumio Sato, Keiko Yoshiyasu, Noboru Nakamura, Naoki Tomita, Kiyoaki Ozaki. Use of tape lures for an increase in capture number of autumn migrant bunting species at a stopover site. Ornithological Science (In press).
  3. T. Deguchi, F. Sato, M. Eda, H. Izumi, H. Suzuki, R. M. Suryan, E. W. Lance, H. Hasegawa, K. Ozaki. 2017. Translocation and hand-rearing result in short-tailed albatrosses returning to breed in the Ogasawara Islands 80 years after extirpation. Animal Conservation 20: 341-349.
  4. Daisuke Ochi, Kei Matsumoto, Nariko Oka, Tomohiro Deguchi, Katsufumi Sato, Takashi Sato, Fumihito Muto, Yutaka Watanuki. 2016. Dual foraging strategy and chick growth of Streaked Shearwater Calonectris leucomelas at the two colonies of different oceanographic environment. Ornithological Science 15: 213-225.
  5. Tomohiro Deguchi, Hiroko Nomura, Ryoko Otsuka, Masaru Wada, Yutaka Watanuki. 2016. The triggers of fledging in Rhinoceros Auklets Cerorhinca monocerata chicks when they experienced mass recession, examined by a supplementary feeding experiment. Ornithological Science 15: 15-21.
  6. Tomohiro Deguchi, Keiko Yoshiyasu, Kiyoaki Ozaki, Fumio Sato, Yoshimitsu Shigeta, Shigemoto Komeda, Noboru Nakamura, Naoki Tomita, Mariko Senda, Tadakazu Hiroi. 2015. Long-term changes in migration and breeding periods of avian summer visitors to Japan (in Japanese). Japanese Journal of Ornithology 64: 39-51.
  7. Naoko Emura, Wataru Furuya, Haruko Ando, Tomohiro Deguchi. 2015. Monitoring of avifauna to estimate the effect of nature restoration in Mukojima, Bonin Islands. Journal of Yamashina Institute for Ornithology 46: 89-100.
  8. Tomohiro Deguchi, Robert M. Suryan, Kiyoaki Ozaki. 2014. Muscle damage and behavioral consequences from prolonged handling of albatross chicks from transmitter attachment. Journal of Wildlife Management 78: 1302-1309.
  9. Haruko Ando, Lindsay Young, Maura Naughton, Hajime Suzuki, Tomohiro Deguchi, Yuji Isagi. 2014. Population genetic structure among highly remote breeding colonies of the Black-footed albatross, Phoebastria nigripes, in North Pacific. Pacific Science 68: 309-319
  10. Tomohiro Deguchi, Robert M. Suryan, Kiyoaki Ozaki, Judy F. Jacobs, Fumio Sato, Noboru Nakamura, Gregory R. Balogh. 2014. Early Successes of Translocation and Hand-Rearing of Endangered Albatrosses for Species Conservation and Island Restoration. Oryx 48: 195-203.
  11. Guy, T.J., Jennings S.L., Suryan R.M., Melvin E.F., Bellman, M.A., Anderson D.J., Ballance L.T., Blackie B.A., Croll D.A., Deguchi T., Geernaert T.O., Henry R.W., Hester, M., Hyrenbach K.D., Jahncke J., Ozaki K., Roletto J., Sato F., Shaffer S.A., Sydeman W.J., and Zamon J.E. 2013. Spatial overlap of North Pacific albatrosses with the U.S. west coast groundfish fishery. Fisheries Research 147: 222-234.
  12. Kenichi Takahashi, Mamoru Takahashi, Hitoko Misumi, Tomohiro Deguchi, Yutaka Watanuki. 2012. Notes on trombiculid mites from Teuri Island in northwestern Hokkaido, Japan. Medical Entomological and Zoology 63: 231-234
  13. Tomohiro Deguchi, Keiko Yoshiyasu, Kiyoaki Ozaki. 2012. Comparison of migration and breeding in Barn Swallow based on banding records between 1960s and 2000s (in Japanese). Japanese Journal of Ornithology 61: 273-282.
  14. Naoko Emura, Kazuto Kawakami, Tomohiro Deguchi, Koichi Sone. 2012. Potential role of frugivorous birds in the recovery process of forest vegetation after feral goat eradication in Mukojima Island, the Bonin Islands. Journal of Forest Research. 17: 352-359.
  15. Tomohiro Deguchi, Judy Jacobs, Tomoko Harada, Lyndon Perriman, Yuki Watanabe, Fumio Sato, Noboru Nakamura, Kiyoaki Ozaki, Greg Balogh. 2012. Translocation and hand-rearing techniques for establishing a colony of threatened albatross. Bird Conservation International 22: 66-81.
  16. Tomohiro Deguchi, Akihiko Wada, Yutaka Watanuki, Yuichi Osa. 2010. Seasonal changes of the at-sea distribution and food provisioning in rhinoceros auklets. Ecological Research 25: 123-137.
  17. Yutaka Watanuki, Motohiro Ito, Tomohiro Deguchi, Shoshiro Minobe. 2009. Climate-forced seasonal mismatch between the hatching of Rhinoceros Auklets and the availability of anchovy. Marine Ecology Progress Series 393: 259-271.
  18. Naoko Emura, Tomohiro Deguchi. 2009. Present condition of avifauna of Mukojima, Ogasawara archipelago, following the eradication of feral goats (in Japanese). Japanese Journal of Ornithology 58: 77-85.
  19. Yukiko Inoue, Tomohiro Deguchi, Daisuke Ochi, Yutaka Wataniki, Nariko Oka. 2009. Effects of age and short-term body condition of chicks on food provisioning in streaked shearwaters (in Japanese). Japanese Journal of Ornithology 58: 65-72.
  20. Tomoko Harada, Tomohiro Deguchi, Brenda Zaun, Rachel S. Sprague, Judy Jacobs. 2008. An artificial rearing experiment of Laysan albatross chicks (in Japanese). Journal of Yamashina Institute for Ornithology 39: 87-100
  21. Kei Matumoto, Tomohiro Deguchi, Akihiko Wada, Akiko Kato, Sei-ichi Saitoh, Yutaka Watanuki. 2008. Estimating foraging area of Rhinoceros Auklets by simultaneous sampling of water temperature profiles using bird-borne data-loggers. Ornithological Science 7: 37-46.
  22. Akinori Takahashi, Daisuke Ochi, Yutaka Watanuki, Tomohiro Deguchi, Nariko Oka, Vsevolod Afanasyev, James W. Fox, Philip N.Trathan. 2008. Post-breeding movement and activities of two Streaked Shearwaters in the
north-western Pacific. Ornithological Science 7: 29-35.
  23. Tomohiro Deguchi and Yutaka Watanuki. 2005. Prefledging mass recession and timing of fledging in Rhinoceros auklets. Ibis 147: 217-220.
  24. Tomohiro Deguchi, Yoko Goto and Yasunori Sakurai. 2004. Importance of walleye Pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) to wintering ribbon seals (Phoca fasciata) in Nemuro Strait, Hokkaido Japan. Mammal Study 29: 55-63.
  25. Tomohiro Deguchi, Yutaka Watanuki, Yasuaki Niizuma and Akifumi Nakata. 2004. Interannual variations of the occurrence of epipelagic fish in the diets of the seabirds breeding on Teuri Island, northern Hokkaido, Japan. Progress in Oceanography 61: 267-275.
  26. Tomohiro Deguchi, Akinori Takahashi and Yutaka Watanuki. 2004. Proximate factors determining fledging age and mass in Rhinoceros auklets (Cerorhinca monocerata): a study of intra- and interyear variation. Auk 121: 452-462.
  27. Tomohiro Deguchi and Tatsuhiko Kagami. 2003. Effects of body mass on daily mass increment in Rhinoceros Auklet chicks receiving different amount of foods (in Japanese). Japanese Journal of Ornithology 52: 35-38.
Non-peer-reviewed papers
  1. T. Deguchi. 2017. Zetsumetsu-kigushu wo mamoru shigoto (Job to protect threatened species). Iden 71: 389.
  2. T. Deguchi. 2017. Ahou-dori no Ijyu keikaku (Translocatation plan of Short-tailed Albatross). Iden 71: 376-381. (In Japanese)
  3. T. Deguchi. 2016. Ahou-dori no Ijyu keikaku (Translocatation plan of Short-tailed Albatross). Bunkazai no Hogo 49:10-16, Tokyo Metropolitan Government. (In Japanese)
  4. T. Deguchi. 2014. Short-tailed Albatross. Reviced edition, Endangered Wildlife in Japan (4th Edition Red List), Ministry of the Environment. (In Japanese)
  5. T. Deguchi. 2014. Laysan Albatross. Reviced edition, Endangered Wildlife in Japan (4th Edition Red List), Ministry of the Environment. (In Japanese)
  6. Judy Jacobs, Tomohiro Deguchi, Lyndon Perriman and Elizabeth Flint. 2013. Guidelines for translocations of surface-nesting albatrosses and petrels. 1st meeting of ACAP population and conservation status working group documents. http://www.acap.aq/index.php/en/working-groups/doc_download/2022-pcswg1-doc- 06-rev-1-guidelines-for-translocations-of-surface-nesting-albatrosses-and-pe trels
  7. T. Deguchi. 2013. Ogasawara eno Ahou-dori saidonyu project (Project to reintroduct Short-tailed Albatrosses in Ogasawara Islands). Wild Life Forum. 17: 9-11. (In Japanese)
  8. T. Deguchi. 2013. Chourui-hogo no moderu-kesu ni - Aho-dori kaihuku project (Toward model case for bird conservation - Short-tailed Albatross recovery project). Science Portal, Opinion (In Japanese). http://scienceportal.jst.go.jp/columns/opinion/20130108_01.html.
  9. T. Deguchi. 2012. Chourui-seirigaku-kenkyu no ayumi to seika - naibunpitsugaku wo nozoku (Progress and results of bird physiological studies without endocrinology). Japanese Journal of Ornithology 61 (Special issue): 41-42 (In Japanese).
  10. T. Deguchi. 2011. Ogasawara eno Ahou-dori saidonyu project (Project to reintroduct Short-tailed Albatrosses in Ogasawara Islands). News letter of Japanese Society for Preservation of Birds. Watashi-tachi no Shizen. 569: 5-7. (In Japanese)
  11. T. Deguchi. 2011. Ogasawara eno Ahou-dori saidonyu keikaku (Project to reintroduct Short-tailed Albatrosses in Ogasawara Islands). Kagaku 81: 777. (In Japanese)
  12. T. Deguchi. 2009. Ahou-dori no Ogasawara ijyu ni mata ippo: Mukojima iso no 15wa sudachi seiko (One more step to Short-tailed Albatrosses colony restration in Ogasawara Islands: 15 birds translocated to Mukojima fledged successfully). Iden 63: 72-75. (In Japanese)
  13. T. Deguchi. 2008. Ahou-dori no Ogasawara ijyu sakusen (Project to translocate Short-tailed Albatrosses in Ogasawara Islands). Iden 62: 79-83. (In Japanese)
  14. T. Deguchi. 2005. Shohyou - Mejiro no Me (Book review - White eye's Eye). Journal of Yamashina Institute for Ornithology 36: 164-165 (In Japanese).
  15. T. Deguchi. 2005. Tankiteki-kaiyokankyo-hendou ni taisuru umidori no hannou - Tsushima-danryu to Teuri-tou no Utou (Seabird response to short-term oceanographical change - Tsushima warm current and Rhinoceros Auklet on Teuri Islnad). Bulltein of the Japanese Society of Fisheries Oceanograhy 69: 62-63 (In Japanese).
  16. T. Deguchi. 2004. Kaiyou-kankyou to umidori no kankei (Relationship between oceanography and seabird). Yamashina-Choken NEWS 184: 3 (In Japanese)
  17. T. Deguchi. 2001. Ningen-katsudo to Kannkyo-hozen (Human activity and environment conservation). Wildlife Report 19: 89-90 (In Japanese).
  18. T. Deguchi. 2001. PICES Kokusai-kaigi ni sanka-site (Attendance at PICES International conference). Chogaku NEWS 78 (In Japanese).
  19. T. Deguchi 1998. Kurakeazashi (Ribbon Seal). Marine mammal research report of Japan Environmental Agency marine environmental conservation researches. pp 142-147 (In Japanese).
Books
  1. T. Deguchi. 2011. Revival from extinction, Short-tailed Albatross, Tori no Seitai Zukan (Ecological guide of birds) (supervised by S. Yamagishi), Gakushu-kenkyusha, pp 8-9. (In Japanese)
  2. T. Deguchi. 2010. Ahou-dori saidonyu, ijyu-keikaku (Reintroduction and translocation plan of Short-tailed Albatrosses), Seitai-gaku karamita Yasei-seibutsu no Hogo to Horitsu (Conservation and law of wildlige viewed from ecology) (The Nature Conservation Society of Japan, edior). pp. 96-97. Kodansha Scientific. (In Japanese)
  3. Tomohiro Deguchi. 2009. Reintroduction to the isolated island-Short-tailed albatross- (in Japanese). Pages 23-47 in S. Yamagishi, editor. Protection of Japanese endangered birds. Kyoto University Press, Kyoto, Japan.
  4. T. Deguchi. 2006. Ahou-dori no Ogasawara-shoto eno ijyu sakusen (Project to reintroduct Short-tailed Albatrosses in Ogasawara Islands). Warera chikyu kazoku (Edited by Yamashina Institute for Ornithology). NHK Publishing. pp107-114. (In Japanese)
Translations
  1. Tomohiro Deguchi. 2013. Chapter 16: Conservation, Chapter 17: Glossary (in Japanese). Pages 228-245 in Y. Hayashi and T. Yamasaki, editor. Endangered Birds (written by M. Walters). Midori-Shobo, Tokyo, Japan.
  2. Tomohiro Deguchi. 2009. Chapter 6: Physiology, Chapter 7: Sense, Brain, Intelligence (in Japanese). Pages 155-222 in S. Yamagishi, editor. Ornithology 3rd edition (written by F. Gill). Shinjyu-Sha, Tokyo, Japan.