Dr. Nial Moores, Birds Korea, May 5th On May 5th the South China Morning Post published a generally excellent article with the optimistic title ” How birdwatchers helped save icon of Hong Kong’s Mai Po marshes, the black-faced spoonbill.” The … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger (Birds Korea Member) with Felix Glenk, both Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Korea While the eyes of the world these months focus on the DPRK (perhaps better-known as North Korea internationally) for political reasons, the DPRK’s role on the East Asian-Australasian … read more
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