Bird News from Spike Millington Despite the bustle of activity just two weeks ago, it seems that the shorebird migration at Gojan mudflats is over. Saturday evening revealed a grand total of 27 individual shorebirds on the rising tide: 3 … read more
Bird News from Matt Poll At a relatively undisturbed (yet) spot near town, three individual Fairy Pittas (or maybe two pairs) called from the treetops, mostly unseen. One of them had a strange three-note call, instead of the more familiar … read more
Nial Moores PhD, Birds Korea, May 30th 2014 On April 29th, Mr Park Seong-Sik kindly showed me Baekryeong Island’s main Black-tailed Gull colony – a city of birds with probably 15,000 inhabitants inhabiting a long stretch of coastline near his … read more
Bird News from Robin Newlin An intriguing wind forecast sent me out to Socheong; the same and then shifting winds brought strengthening worries over fog, and sent me scurrying back to the mainland. Still, the visit was enjoyable, even if … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores Largely blue skies and warm temperatures (reaching a high of 22°C on the 29th), with the wind swinging from the west on the 28th to the southwest then south on the 29th. Unsurprisingly, there was … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores Although 88 species were logged during a long day in the field (5am-8pm), it felt very much like the end of spring – with small numbers of late-spring migrants and warming temperatures during the day … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores With no boat for four days, finally arrived back on the island at 8pm on the 25th in still-dense fog. This cleared by early morning, being replaced by warm sunshine and light to moderate yellow-dust … read more
Bird News from Tim Edelsten and Subhojit Chakladar An afternoon at this delightfully unspoiled area of good habitat near the DMZ produced an almost complete roll-call of Korean summer-breeders, with all the species mentioned by Robin Newlin at the same … read more
Bird News from Patrick Blake and Melanie Proteau Blake While on a hike through Mudeungsan National Park, Ms. Melanie Blake and I came onto a truly unexpected bird. We heard a Fairy Pitta (Pitta nympha) singing from one of the … read more
Bird News from Robin Newlin and Im Kwang Wan Birds seen (and sometimes heard) included Mandarin Duck, Northern Scops Owl, Black-naped Oriole, Oriental Dollarbird, Daurian Redstart, Grey-headed Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker and Black Woodpecker. Heard birds included Ruddy Kingfisher, Black-capped … read more