Bird News from Nial Moores with Choi Hyun-Ah (HSF). A return to Goseong County, Gangwon Province, to conduct a few additional counts of marine birds as part of a joint project with the Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea (HSF) to research … read more
For some images and short stories from the muddy margins of the Yellow Sea – now recognised as East Asia’s most threatened habitat – please visit Wetlands International’s blog at: Why #WaterbirdsCount: August read more
Bird News from Nial Moores Following what appears to be a record-breakingly hot summer, the first few signs of autumn migration in East Busan have included a First Calendar-year Black Paradise Flycatcher in the main gully at Igidae on August … read more
Bird survey news from Dr Nial Moores and Dr Bernhard Seliger (Hanns Seidel Foundation, Korea) Female Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus confusus: one of the commonest landbirds seen in Rason during the present survey © Nial Moores Between July 1st and … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea Based on information made available to Birds Korea, approximately 167 species of bird had been confirmed as breeding at least once in the ROK by 2015, with an additional 13 or so species suspected of … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores Highlights of a few hours in a local park in warm and misty weather included 1,260 loafing and feeding Streaked Shearwater counted in a single scan with single Short-tailed Shearwater, Red-throated Loon, Slaty-backed Gull and … read more
Episode two of the four part series on the shorebirds of the Flyway has now aired on BBC World radio and on Australia’s ABC. In the ABC broadcast, the Saemangeum seawall is described as the boa constrictor that strangled the … read more
The first of four fascinating radio programs looking at shorebird conservation on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway is now available for listening and download here. Program One is set in Australia and has interviews with a range of experts many of … read more
In May 2016, Emu (journal of Austral Ornithology) published a special volume with the heading “The East Asian–Australasian Flyway: Population Trends, Threats and the Future”. The volume (Volume 116 Number 2 2016) included one paper from Korea entitled, “Reclamation of … read more
Between May 23rd and 28th I conducted a third round of shorebird counts as part of a regional project on the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper led by the wonderful SBS in China, funded by the National Geographic Air and Water … read more