A notice received today from Simba Chan in BirdLife (April 8th): Volunteers needed to find remaining endangered Yellow-breasted Buntings in Mongolia Populations of Yellow-breasted Bunting Emberiza aureola, are rapidly declining across their range and have recently been classified as endangered … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores, Jason Loghry, Matt Poll and Heloise Stankard After heavy overnight rain, a clear mild morning, though with strong northeasterly winds, before more heavy rain moved in again in the afternoon. Early on, the few remaining … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores After overnight rain, generally overcast, with the wind swinging from light south-westerly to moderate or strong north-easterly and very dark skies. In a few hours in the field, much evidence that spring migration is now … read more
Nial Moores with Team Thai On our last day together, we headed to a well-known area of forest near Seoul to see if we could find any Hazel Grouse, a widespread, stunningly-patterned but often hard-to-see species here. With excellent directions … read more
Nial Moores with Team Thai On 15th, a late afternoon visit under warm spring sunshine to the now highly-disturbed lagoon on the north side of Yeongjong with Team Thai (see: https://www.birdskoreablog.org/?p=14788) found disappointingly small numbers of duck (e.g. no Falcated … read more
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