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
Christian Artuso, Ph.D., August 2015 – An owl biologist’s expert commentary provided to Birds Korea The recent establishment and popularity of owl cafés or “owl shops” (fukuro no mise) in Japan has caused considerable concern for the wellbeing of the … read more
Nial Moores with Owen and Sally Cole and Park Meena In sweltering heat (probably reaching a humid 34C at midday at Junam), a day of enjoyable local birding in a wide range of habitats that included sea coast, the estuary, … read more
Dr. Nial Moores, July 22nd 2015 (with further edits on July 27th) Even while details of the first finder wait to be fully confirmed (please!), it is clear that the Bar-headed Goose Anser indicus in Hadong, Jeollanam Province this summer … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores and Ha Jeong Mun As super-typhoon Nangka weakened rapidly into a Category One, and further degraded as it hit land in western Japan on July 16th, hopes still remained high that the resultant northerly winds … read more
Dr. Nial Moores, Birds Korea, July 14th 2015 As described in the previous post (which looked at the 1996 record of Wilson’s Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor), there are at least 50 revisions to consider making to the 2014 Birds Korea Checklist. … read more
Dr. Nial Moores, Birds Korea, July 11th 2015 We need to revise the Birds Korea Checklist, so that an up-to-date checklist can be included in the Korean language version of Status of Birds which is now under development. Would you … read more
Another paper providing a sobering estimate of population declines, this time in the world’s seabirds, published on Plos One: http://www.plosone.org/article/comments/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0129342 Three quick take-aways: 1) Seabirds are valuable indicators of marine ecosystem health; 2) Many populations of the world’s seabirds are … read more
Nial Moores, July 7th/ 8th 2015 (with much essential input from Peter Pyle and Tristan McKee, in December and again in July 2015) Revisiting a potential first for Korea (and Asia?) in the hope of more comments! At dusk on … read more