Feb282014
If you want to know what it’s like to bird Monoglia in mid-winter, be sure and check out Birding Mongolia’s most recent posts:
http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.kr/2014_02_01_archive.html
This also includes a closer look at the identification of two species of redpoll that occur in Mongolia: “the common Mealy Redpoll, formerly called Common Redpoll, Carduelis flammea, and the rarer Arctic Redpoll Carduelis hornemanni, with subspecies C. h. exilipes (sometimes called Coues’s Redpoll).”
Enjoy!
Bird News from Matt Poll with Subhojit Chakladar Early on Sunday I met up with Mr. Chakladar at Amsa, and lined up next to the photog phalanx to get a look at a long-staying European Robin – a truly stunning bird. We … read more
Bird News from Matt Poll with Héloise Stankard For a ‘non-birding’ trip into Seoul, I managed to get a lot of birding done! On Saturday morning I got great long looks at Gangseo’s resident Plumbeous Water Redstart – an attractive and confiding … read more
Bird News from Tim Edelsten From the Hannam bridge to the mouth of the Jungnang Stream (a stretch of about 1.7km) there were massed 14800Common Pochard and 4600 Tufted Duck. Unfortunately they were flushed by an speedboat, although the sound and sight … read more
Bird News from Andreas Kim The afternoon visit to the Usop Swamp showed more birds than it was hoped for: a big flock of c. 2000 geese, Taiga Bean and Greater White-fronted, c. 100 Whooper Swan, at least 50 Mallard small groups of Eurasian Teal all around the … read more
Selected Bird News from “Team Shetland” with Nial Moores A fairly intensive week of birding around the country (as a prelude to a two-week trip by TS to Japan) produced several outstanding highlights. Out of the 150+ species logged, these … read more
Bird News from Andreas Kim In the morning with light rain the stream between Samhyang and Yeongsan bridge was populated with 100 to 150Black-headed Gull – like in the last two weeks, but today also 2 Black-tailed Gull were seen, one with only … read more
Bird News from Jason Loghry with Alex Broda Sunday afternoon at Junam was mostly clear-skied and quiet. It was a perfect day to be outside for a walk. We avoided the main entrance to the lake. In the surrounding rice … read more
Jason Loghry, February 15, 2014 For those of us obsessed with wind and movement, the Earth Wind Map website could be of interest. It is a visualization of global weather conditions forecast by supercomputers updated every three hours with ocean … read more
Bird News from Tim Edelsten Gangneung and Donghae both have had significant snowfalls of over a metre in the past week or so, and Gyeongpo Lake was almost entirely frozen. On the last patch of running water, nice views of … read more