Bird News from Nial Moores with Hwaseong KFEM’s Park Hea-Jeong and Jung Hanchul Six (part-)days in the field and rain as the first of ten or so surveys for the EAAFP-led and Hwaseong City funded Hwaseong Wetlands Project. Highlights included … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores, with Kim Kimi & Kim Yeiweon (Bijarim Ro) and members of Seongsan People who Care for the Environment group. Outstanding highlights included single Japanese Night Heron, Steppe Eagle and Caspian Tern, all found during formal … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores (Birds Korea) In addition to meetings and supporting more frog ladder installation as part of the long-running Birds Korea-initiated Baekryeong Wetlands Project (this time led expertly by the offices of Incheon, Seoul and national KFEM … read more
Nial Moores, Birds Korea, April 30 2020 There are very few – if any – species groups more difficult to identify with full (or any!) confidence in east Asia than the snipes. Here in Korea, five Gallinago snipes occur regularly: … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea (April 2nd 2020). I am not a medical doctor and I do not pretend to have specialist knowledge or insights on the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, as someone who lives in the Republic of Korea (ROK), … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea, February 28th 2020 As reported by the AFP, on February 27th, “Britain’s Court of Appeal on Thursday ruled in favour of green campaigners who oppose the building of a third runway at London’s Heathrow airport, … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores, with Kim Kimi and Lee Joon-Hyup ( Birjarim Ro Monitoring Team) and Kim Yeiwon on several dates. Bird highlights during five days of survey at Bijarim Ro (still threatened by road-widening) and along the Seongsan … read more
Birds News from Nial Moores with Andy Deighton, Ian Merrill, Simon Colenutt and Trevor Codlin from the UK. To help fund our conservation work, five days were spent guiding four visiting world-birders from the UK en route to Taiwan. This … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea, January 24th 2020 It was a really ambitious program: a week-long visit from the UK by Trevor Rose of Rose Design Services Ltd. to the Republic of Korea (ROK), to share his expertise on amphibian … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores & Bernhard Seliger, Kim Choony (National KFEM), Shim Hyeong Jin (Incheon KFEM), Choi Hyun-Ah and Trevor Rose A return trip to Baekryeong in continuing unseasonably mild weather (with overnight lows close to zero, and highs … read more