Bird News from Nial Moores & Bernhard Seliger Highlights from survey work in the northeast near the inner border between February 22nd and 25th included exceptional numbers of Carrion Crow, a flock of 75+ Pine Bunting and a presumed Willow … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger and Dr. Choi Hyun-Ah (Birds Korea, Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea) Another survey in the starting migration season, though still bitterly cold with – 11° C in the morning and only slowly warming up. Along the Han river, … read more
Seabird survey led by Nial Moores with Amaël Borzée (Nanjing Forestry University and Birds Korea member), Bernhard Seliger and Felix Glenk (Hanns Seidel Foundation, Korea office) and “Team EAAFP” (Doug Watkins, Chief Executive of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership Secretariat, … read more
Hado-ri Reservoir is a well known birdwatching hotspot on the northeast end of Jeju Island, known to host a wide array of bird species year round. I made the trip to Hado-ri on a nice sunny winter afternoon during a … read more
Dr. Hyun-Ah Choi and Dr. Bernhard Seliger (both Hanns Seidel Foundation, Birds Korea lifetime members) On January 12 2021, the first survey of the area around Siam wetland and Yudo Island in the Han River estuary in this year took … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea, January 28th 2021 Three species of scoter with white feathering on the inner wing are now recognised by leading checklists: Stejneger’s Scoter Melanitta stejnegeri 검둥오리사촌 which winters along the eastern seaboard of Eurasia, including in … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores and Hanchul Jung (Gyeonggi KFEM) Highlights of three more days of survey for the EAAFP-Hwaseong City Wetlands Project included 5-7 Relict Gull (between north Teibu and the Gojan Tidal flat), Saunders’s Gulls (including one banded … read more
Dr Nial Moores, January 20th 2021 In December 2020, Lee Jae-heung found a Western Water Rail Rallus aquaticus, presumably of eastern subspecies korejewi, wintering in a semi-urban stream in northern Incheon. Once the news went public in January, the bird … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger (Birds Korea, Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea) Being driven from my home by my son’s birthday party, on December 27th, I went for a short afternoon scan (15.30-18.00), which was repeated for a longer time (07.00-15.00) and wider … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores with Jung Hanchul (Gyeonggi KFEM). The eleventh and last survey this year of the Hwaseong Wetlands Project, an initiative developed by the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership and Hwaseong City, with survey-work conducted by Birds Korea … read more