Bernhard Seliger (Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea, Birds Korea), with Park Ji-Hyun, Johann and Joseph Seliger A short trip over the US thanksgiving weekend to Jeju Island was devoted to climbing some of the beautiful volcanoes called Oreum here (after a … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger and Dr. Hyun-Ah Choi (Hanns Seidel Foundation, Birds Korea) with Haesu Jung (HSF) After a hiatus of several month, the November survey in the Siam wetland and Hangang Estuary area near Yudo Islet brought positive and negative … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores with Park Hea-Jeong (Hwaseong KFEM) and Jung Hanchul On 17th, in exceptionally mild but dull conditions we found 93 species in total. On 17th, dawn saw a flight out of roost of >54,000 geese and … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger (Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Korea and Birds Korea) A trip to the No Gun Ri Global Peace Forum brought the chance for an afternoon of searching for birds in the vicinity of Yeongdong, South of Daejeon. Though in the countryside, … read more
Nial Moores, November 7th 2020 On October 31st 2020, while conducting bird survey on biodiversity hotspot Baekryeong Island, Incheon, as part of the Birds Korea Baekryeong Wetlands Project, I heard an unfamiliar and incessant “Prrip-Priip” call. This initially suggested one … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger, Dr. Choi Hyun-Ah (Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Korea, Birds Korea), with Doug Watkins (EAAFP), Vivian Fu (EAAFP), Kang Na-Ru (local researcher) and Dr. Hwang Sun-Mi (Officer of Suncheon) On October 29-30, we had a very productive seminar generating ideas for … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger, Dr. Choi Hyun-Ah (Hanns-Seidel-Foundation, Birds Korea), Kim Young-Soo (Hanns-Seidel-Foundation) with the Eco-tourism Team of Jeollabukdo provincial government A two-day tour brought together a team of the Jeollabukdo Eco-Tourism office with a team of Hanns-Seidel-Foundation to discuss possibilities … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores with Park Hea-Jeong (Hwaseong KFEM) and Jung Hanchul We conducted the ninth waterbird survey as part of the Hwaseong City – EAAFP Hwaseong Wetlands Project between October 28th and 30th, with highlights that included tens … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger (Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Korea, Birds Korea) One day and a morning of birding between a conference on Jeju-Do. Construction all around the island is going on, seemingly barely slowed by the Covid-19 crisis. Anyhow, the small streams leading down … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger with Dr. Choi Hyun-Ah (Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Korea and Birds Korea) and Prof. Amaël Borzée (Nanjing Forestry University) As part of a trip to evaluate chances for eco-tourism in Jeollabukdo, we had the chance to visit a lake in … read more