Bird News from Dr Nial Moores with Dr Mark Harris, Birds Korean Jung Hancheul (on 27th), multiple Birds Koreans (on 28th) and Birds Korea Yeoncheon Director Baek Seung-Kwang (on 29th). Three days looking through some spectacular concentrations of birds, with … read more
Nial Moores, Birds Korea, October 31st 2023. All images copyright of Nial Moores and Birds Korea. A total of 143 species were logged during this survey visit, with the outstanding highlight a Blyth’s Reed Warbler present from 22nd to at … read more
Nial Moores, Birds Korea, October 31st 2023. (All images copyright of Nial Moores / Birds Korea and not to be used or re-posted without permission). Baengnyeong is a big and densely vegetated island – far too large to cover properly … read more
Adrian Göllner My name is Adrian Göllner, an artist and birder from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. This September I travelled to South Korea for three weeks to take part in an arts residency in Yangji-ri, Cheorwon County. When there, I was … read more
A total of 85 bird species, three mammal species (Korean Water Deer, Wild Boar and Amur Leopard Cat), one globally threatened freshwater turtle species, and two species of globally threatened amphibian (multiple Seoul Pond Frogs and 1-2 Suwon Tree Frog … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea, September 21, 2023. All images copyright of Nial Moores / Birds Korea. In September, the “Spoonbills Project” was launched in the Yeoncheon Imjin River Biosphere Reserve. This ecological planning and design project is a collaboration … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Director, & Ms Park Meena, National Coordinator, Birds Korea. Based on the kind recommendation of an environmental studies teacher, Birds Korea was asked by Hapcheon Pyeonghwa (Peace) High School if we were able to visit their school … read more
Birds Korea was fledged in 2004. Our independent NGO has only 300 members, but a huge mission: the conservation of birds and their habitats in Korea and the wider Yellow Sea Eco-region. In all of our work, we strive to … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea, August 2023 It was supposed to be a way of promoting the massive Saemangeum reclamation project and (apparently) of getting more money from central government. Instead, the failed hosting of the World Scouts Jamboree in … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea In July, a statement on High Pathogenicity Avian Infuenza or HPAI (long called “Poultry Flu” by Birds Korea) was released by the Scientific Task Force on Avian Influenza and Wild Birds, co-convened under the Convention … read more