Bird News from Nial Moores and Jason Loghry With a storm up in Hokkaido/ The Okshotsk and the promise of northeasterly winds (4-5m/s+ throughout the day) and some drop in temperature (with a minimum of about 14C and a high … read more
Dr. Nial Moores, Birds Korea Song Do Tidal-flat, late 2014 (including much of the “Ramsar site”): it used all to be internationally important for waterbirds. Two recent online articles capture some of the challenges that Birds Korea is trying … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores and Jason Loghry In glorious sunshine and autumn-cool, with a dawn minimum of 12C and a high of about 22C, we spent a day birding three of the top mainland sites in the southeast: Junam … read more
The international Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force is still keen to receive all records of Spoon-billed Sandpiper in the ROK in order to help refine understanding of this Critically Endangered species’ population trend and movements. In return they can help with … read more
Dr. Nial Moores, Birds Korea, September 30th 2015 The Scaly-sided Merganser Mergus squamatus is both exquisitely-plumaged and globally Endangered. It breeds only along forest-sided rivers in some of the wildest country in Far East Asia. Shy and elusive, its often … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores with Jason Loghry. Following some light rain on the 12th, the 13th was bright and mild (with a max. temperature of approximately 25C) with light north-westerlies. We started the day as dawn broke at Taejongdae … read more
Do you want to see Scaly-sided Mergansers and Baikal Teal? Steller’s Sea Eagle and Red-crowned Crane? Siberian and White-naped Crane? Siberian Accentor and Pallas’s Rosefinch? To look through flocks of Slaty-backed and Vega Gulls to pick out Mongolian and Glaucous-winged … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores (Birds Korea) with Choi Hyun-Ah (Hanns Seidel Foundation, Korea) A second bird survey in Goseong County (after the first in late June) was conducted with the Hanns Seidel Foundation, Korea, as part of research on … read more
Bird News, and ID questions, from Nial Moores In the early hours of the 25th, Typhoon Goni produced some strong winds, heavy rain and top quality urban birding in Busan as it battered Kyushu and started its swan-song into the … read more
Nial Moores, August 23, 2015 Below are a few digiscoped images of American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus taken between August 9th and 15th, 2015, in Nova Scotia, eastern Canada (and for comparison a few gull images from Korea). Most of … read more