Bird News from Nial Moores Two quick visits to local woodland on December 25th and to Igidae on 28th and one half-day at the Nakdong Estuary (on 27th) produced several species of note, though no real surprises. Highlights in an … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores With a presentation to give in Seoul in the evening, a chance on December 3rd to spend an hour and a half visiting the tidal creek at Siheung to look for the long-staying male Green-winged … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores with Choi Hyun-Ah and Felix Glenk (Hanns Seidel Foundation, Korea office) and Gimpo City officials As part of a project initiated by the Hanns Seidel Foundation (Korea) and Gimpo City designed to improve understanding of … read more
It has been a dynamic month of birding in Gangneung, with plenty of winter arrivals and unexpected sightings. These highs have been tempered with periods of dangerous smog, and numerous small-scale examples of habitat loss. The month’s standout records included uncommon … read more
Written by team member Sandy Darling, this trip report – available as a pdf – adds a lot more detail and some excellent new images – to the bird news account of the same trip posted here. read more
Birds Korea, November 20, 2018 On November 10th 2018, Dr Bernhard Seliger and Felix Glenk, accompanying a larger group from the Hanns Seidel Foundation went to Wonsan Bay, DPRK, for a non-birding visit. There they observed a group of 150+ … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores with Sandy Darling, Jeni Darling and Tom Thomas (Team Hawk-watch from Ontario, Canada). Timed to capture a mix of autumn migrants and early-returning winter specials, we logged approximately 187 bird species, with several concentrations of … read more
It is wonderful to be back birding in a country that has become so familiar to me, albeit in the unfamiliar province of Gangwon-do. After two weeks in Gangneung, I’ve come across plenty of promising habitat, and some interesting birds … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores, with Kim Su-Kyung on 15th and 16th From inside the afternoon ferry from Incheon to Baekryeong Island on 8th, best were a loon sp., 78 Streaked Shearwater, one dark shearwater sp., two Black-legged Kittiwake, 30 … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores Following the successful Hwaseong symposium, most of two days were spent counting shorebirds as part of World Shorebirds Day. On the 7th, together with Ha Jungmoon (Birds Korean), Hebo Peng (Team Piersma) and Wan-Chih Yin … read more