Bird News from Nial Moores Three wet (!) days counting birds in and around Daejin/ Goseong as part of research with the Hanns Seidel Foundation in very unseasonal weather (mild, with high of 10-12C and heavy rain through much of … read more
Nial Moores and Jason Loghry In heavy overcast with occasional rain and northerly winds (mostly moderate, occasionally strong) a quick stop on the river at Pohang and another day spent on the peninsula, in the hope of determining whether the … read more
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