Bird News from Nial Moores (with Shim Kyu-Sik for much of 25th and 26th). Outstanding late May highlights on Baekryeong this year included Korea’s first Chinese Bush Warbler on May 25th (sadly not photographed or sound-recorded) and Korea’s first Black … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores A total of 141 bird species logged so far during ongoing research for the Baekryeong Wetlands Project, with rarest in the Korean context a single Black-winged Cuckooshrike Coracina melaschistos on the 22nd; and rarest in … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea, May 2019 On May 13th 2019, Mayor Seo Cheol-Mo announced to the 130+ participants of the second international symposium on the Hwaseong Wetlands that following designation of 4,550 ha of the wetland as a Flyway … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea In September 2018, local people, NGOs, scientists and Hwaseong City held a major symposium, the Great Flight of Shorebirds. Evidence was presented of the local, national and international importance of the Hwaseong Wetlands to peoples’ … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores. With mostly light winds and rain overnight on 23rd and 24th and for much of the 26th on the 29th, good numbers of migrants were found during each visit to my local forested park on … read more
In March 2019, Birds Korea and the Hanns Seidel Foundation (Korea office) organized two short birdwatching tours to Rason in the far northeast of the DPRK, bordering on Russia and PR China. The first tour, part-funded by the HSF, included … read more
A Photo-Filled Trip Report by Bo L. Christiansen and Eva F. Henriksen Spring…perhaps the best season of the year, when almost every birder is thinking about which island to bird. There are a quite a few to choose from – … read more
April 4th started early, with a 4AM text from long-time colleague and friend, Deputy Secretary-General Kim Choony of the nation’s largest environmental NGO, KFEM, sharing an update on the planned opening of three Peace Trails into the unintended ecological sanctuary … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores with Bernhard Seliger (Hanns Seidel Foundation, Korea office), Cheng Qian (UNESCAP) and Guo Jin, Han Yongxiang and Yang Ziyou (SBS in China, Shanghai) from March 15-19 & from March 21-26 Au Man Cheong, Chan Wai-Man, … read more
This morning heard some genuinely devastating news: Dr Lew Young had a fatal heart attack yesterday. Our sincerest condolences go out to his family, Deborah and Omi and Ken, and to his hundreds of friends. We have all lost a … read more