Nial Moores with Team Thai A highly enjoyable week of late winter / early spring birding in mostly mild and bright weather, with the six members of “Team Thai” (Kamol Komolphalin, Patcharee Komolphalin, Jindarat Visetruangrote, Penchun Iamchum, Pornkasem Kantamara and … read more
Dr. Nial Moores, Birds Korea, March 13th 2015 (with additional material: March 14th) As part of the fledgling Species Action Plan and Task Force (under the EAAFP), we were asked by the coordinator to collate records of the now Critically … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea, March 12th 2015 The Task Force News Bulletin 13 (February 2015), posted on the increasingly excellent EAAFP website, confirms that for now at least the rapid rate of decline of the charismatic and Critically Endangered … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores and Jason Loghry This was an exceptional day of late winter / early spring birding in light northerlies and bright light, with a record-breaking number of loons (made all the better by the absence of … read more
Nial Moores, March 7th 2015 As we know, Korea is a great place for birding and for helping push the frontiers of knowledge on ecology, conservation and identification. There are many obviously exciting species here (from cranes to shorebirds, East … read more
Birds Korea, March 2015 Would just like to take this opportunity publicly to thank Mr Patrick Blake for his much-appreciated contributions and donations to Birds Korea, and to wish him the best for his travels and future bird conservation work … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores with Robert Orenstein (and Bernhard Seliger on the 27th) We enjoyed a very successful (high-speed!) visit to several top sites (Nakdong Estuary and Junam on the 24th; Southeast River, Geum Estuary and Seosan on the … read more
A quick note to share that the excellent Birding Beijing website recently posted a wonderfully positive introduction to Birds Korea’s Status of Birds, 2014, calling the report a “standard-bearer for conservation organisations in the region”. If you have not downloaded … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores Two interesting afternoons were spent checking inshore waters off eastern Busan, from Cheongsapo to Taejongdae, with several birding highlights including a Brown Booby and more than 500 Rhinoceros Auklet counted. On 16th, overnight rain continued … read more
Dr. Nial Moores, Birds Korea, February 17th 2015 Once common, now globally Endangered: Yellow-breasted Bunting Emberiza aureola, May 2014© Nial Moores An important paper by Ding Li Yong et al. (2015), officially published next month, provides a very useful overview … read more