Bird News from Tim Edelsten An afternoon on the island included a brief look at the main shorebird roost followed by the Western Reservoir and adjacent natural wetland. This shallow reed-fringed wetland is probably the best remaining freshwater habitat on … read more
Bird News from Andreas Kim An hour long visit to the natural tidal-flat of the Mokpo Namhang Urban Wetland short before high tide showed a very interesting assemblage of shorebirds: 12 Black-tailed Godwit, 73 Common Greenshank, 13 Common Redshank, 10 … read more
Birds News from Jason Loghry On Saturday morning, light to dark grey clouds covered the sky. A typhoon (Toraji) had passed the night before more quietly than expected. At Myeongji, 300+ Barn Swallow were at roost on some reeds, while … read more
글쓴이 하정문 지난 주말에 새와 생명의 터와 한국야생조류협회 회원들과 함께 흑산도에 해상탐조를 다녀왔습니다. 기상예보가 좋지 않아서 계속 주시하고 있다가 결국에 가기로 결정했지만, 기대와는 다르게 토요일에 흑산도에 들어갈 때부터 해상탐조가 끝날 때까지 호우가 계속 이어졌었습니다. 파고도 생각보다 높아서 낮게는 0.5m, 높게는 … read more
Bird News by Jason Loghry, Ha Jung-Mun, Nial Moores, Shim Kyu-Sik, Song In-Sik, Lee Yong-Sang, Maria Lisak, and Patrick Blake August 24 On Saturday morning, a group of Birds Koreans met to look at seabirds off Heuksan Island. It was … read more
Bird News from Andreas Kim The stream at high tide had only few birds. 2 Great Egret, 1 Intermediate Egret, 3 Little Egret, 1 Striated Heron, 4 Grey-tailed Tattler, 1 Black-backed Wagtail, a short appearing Common Kingfisher as well as … read more
Bird News from Tim Edelsten The heatwave continues into a third month of temperatures above 30 degrees and 80% humidity. At Songdo, where further chunks of habitat dissapear under construction with each new visit, dwindling birdlife is crowded into ever … read more
“Team Spoony: the Movie”에서 전하는 탐조소식 글쓴이 하정문 이달 초에 넓적부리도요와 갯벌 보전에 관한 소규모 다큐멘터리 촬영의 일환으로서 서해안의 갯벌들을 둘러볼 기회를 가질 수가 있었습니다. 올해는 도요새들의 이동이 예년에 비해서 빨라졌다고 들어서 새가 많을까 하고 내심 기대를 했었는데, 아니나 다를까 … read more
Bird News highlights from “Team Spoony: the Movie” by Nial Moores As part of Birds Korea work on a mini-documentary on Spoon-billed Sandpiper and tidal-flat conservation, a team of Birds Koreans (Paul Mossine, Ha Jung-Moon, Jason Loghry, Lee Jung-Kyu and … read more
Bird News from Tim Edelsten Summer is very quiet, birdwise, in Korea. Personally I view it as an enjoyable challenge to find stuff, but this also involves surviving the sweltering heat and humidity. My watch of “airport island” began with … read more