Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea, January 28th 2021 Three species of scoter with white feathering on the inner wing are now recognised by leading checklists: Stejneger’s Scoter Melanitta stejnegeri 검둥오리사촌 which winters along the eastern seaboard of Eurasia, including in … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores and Hanchul Jung (Gyeonggi KFEM) Highlights of three more days of survey for the EAAFP-Hwaseong City Wetlands Project included 5-7 Relict Gull (between north Teibu and the Gojan Tidal flat), Saunders’s Gulls (including one banded … read more
Dr Nial Moores, January 20th 2021 In December 2020, Lee Jae-heung found a Western Water Rail Rallus aquaticus, presumably of eastern subspecies korejewi, wintering in a semi-urban stream in northern Incheon. Once the news went public in January, the bird … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores with Jung Hanchul (Gyeonggi KFEM). The eleventh and last survey this year of the Hwaseong Wetlands Project, an initiative developed by the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership and Hwaseong City, with survey-work conducted by Birds Korea … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores with Park Hea-Jeong (Hwaseong KFEM) and Jung Hanchul On 17th, in exceptionally mild but dull conditions we found 93 species in total. On 17th, dawn saw a flight out of roost of >54,000 geese and … read more
Nial Moores, November 7th 2020 On October 31st 2020, while conducting bird survey on biodiversity hotspot Baekryeong Island, Incheon, as part of the Birds Korea Baekryeong Wetlands Project, I heard an unfamiliar and incessant “Prrip-Priip” call. This initially suggested one … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores with Park Hea-Jeong (Hwaseong KFEM) and Jung Hanchul We conducted the ninth waterbird survey as part of the Hwaseong City – EAAFP Hwaseong Wetlands Project between October 28th and 30th, with highlights that included tens … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores with Park Hea-Jeong (Hwaseong KFEM) Back for the eighth waterbird survey of the Hwaseong FNS, where highlights included huge numbers of Tundra Bean Goose, and a trio of scarcer geese species: Swan Goose, Lesser White-fronted … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores with Park Hae-Jeong (Hwaseong KFEM), together on various dates with e.g. KFEM’s Kim Choony, staff from the EAAFP Secretariat, Hwaseong KFEM staff and volunteers, and even a documentary team… Another seven or so part-days spent … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores and Amaël Borzée One and a half days in between two typhoons spent along the Guryongpo Peninsula, the ROK’s best mainland site for land-based seabirding. Weather on the 5th was fairly calm, with winds increasing … read more