Bird News from Nial Moores In fairly steady weather, fairly slow birding for Baekryeong, with only 102 species logged in the first four days. Highlights so far have included two Swinhoe’s White-eyes (at least on 19th), one Greater Spotted Eagle, … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores with Per Kaijser and Jared Busen A total of 34 shorebird species (out of a total 110 bird species logged) were found, with shorebird highlights that included a Pectoral Sandpiper below the Geum Barrage at … read more
Gageo Island, April 18-May 2, 2019 April 18th Back on Gageo-do after six years! Not much from the Mokpo-Gageo ferry besides some Ancient Murrelets. While it was amazing to be back on Gageo, there were some negative developments at … read more
Bird news of Bernhard Seliger (Hanns Seidel Foundation, Birds Korea), Choi Hyun-Ah (Hanns Seidel Foundation, Birds Korea), Vivian Fu (East Asian Australasian Flyway Partnership) and Denise Frömel (Hanns Seidel Foundation) A return to the beautiful scenery of Hwasong, Siam Wetland … read more
Bird news of Bernhard Seliger (Hanns-Seidel-Foundation, Birds Korea) Early autumn migration and the fallout of the Typhoon Lingling both influenced the trip to Goseong in September, with a very first short day, which had to be canceled due to heavy … read more
Chuja Island, April 14-17, 2019 The island-hopping continued north to Chuja-do, a medium-small set of bridge-connected islands 2/3 of the way to the mainland from Jeju. I visited a few times back in my Jeju days, but those … read more
Jeju Island, April 11-13, 2019 For any birder who has yet to visit Korea’s Yellow Sea during spring migration…what are you waiting for? Aside from the ‘regular’ East Asian migratory specialties that can be found along the East-Australasian Flyway, there … read more
While the ever-increasing amount of infrastructure destroys habitats almost everywhere in Korea and also does not stop in the border area, it is still a good place to go year-round to see species rare elsewhere in the country. In the … read more
May 2nd – We reached the island at about midday and, after a brief meeting with Matt Poll who was leaving on the same boat, we got straight into the birds. Skies were clear with a light northerly breeze and … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores On June 5th, headed out to Junam Reservoir in the evening to look for a Cotton Pygmy Goose Nettapus coromandelianus, a national first record reported somewhat belatedly in the Seoul Ilbo on the 4th, with … read more