Shorebird Research/ Bird News from Nial Moores A boat-based shorebird survey of the Nakdong Estuary was conducted with Tim Edelsten on April 22nd as the first of three counts to be made this spring for a regional project led by … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores With count effort focused on only three areas (excluding the main reservoir and adjacent wetland bisected by a shiny new and not very useful road) a modest total of 97 species was recorded, with the … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores, with Marco della Seta on 9th and 10th Some time spent looking at favoured sites (Igidae, Taejongdae, Dadaepo and off Geoje) for early spring Japan-bound migrants in largely sunny conditions and very mild or even … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores (with Bernhard Seliger and Choi Hyun-Ah) From March 15th-17th another round of marine bird surveys was conducted off from Daejin-Geojin (Gangwon Province) as part of research on biodiversity conservation close to the inner border region. … read more
Dr. Nial Moores, Birds Korea, March 3rd 2016 Following on from a very successful early-spring survey in March 2014 of the internationally important wetlands in Rason on the Korean side of the Tumen Floodplain, arrangements were made with what were … read more
Almost 90% of Korea’s birds are migratory. As they have done for millennia, many birds come here from the south; and many more will migrate further north, crossing the DMZ and the Baekdu Massif into China and Russia for the … read more
Selected Bird News from Nial Moores with William (Billy) Clarke During a week of unusually mixed weather (including extremely mild weather in Busan with either sun, rain or fog; and fog, snow and subzero conditions on the west coast for … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores with Dan van den Broek and Scott Lukens An enjoyable and highlight-rich three days of winter birding were spent in the excellent company of Dan van den Broek and Scott Lukens from Audubon in Portland, … read more
This was the first trial visit to Korea by Zoothera Birding Tours, led by Nick Upton and Nial Moores with Peter Nickless and Graham Jones. In all, in spite of some exceptionally cold weather (with the most extreme temperature a … read more
Selected Bird News from Nial Moores and Jason Loghry As part of research into biodiversity conservation in the inner border region of Korea with the Hanns Seidel Foundation (Korea), we surveyed marine preferential bird species (“marine birds”) along parts of … read more