Birds news from Dr. Bernhard Seliger (Hanns Seidel Foundation and Birds Korea lifetime member) Yongjeong Island hosts the airport of Incheon (Seoul), one of the busiest airports in the world, with around 70 million passengers in 2019. The island is … read more
Bird News from Dr. Bernhard Seliger (Hanns Seidel Foundation and Birds Korea lifetime member) Rice fields in Korea are special all the time of the year, but in early May, when they slowly fill with water – except the wonderful … read more
Bird news from Dr. Bernhard Seliger and Dr. Hyun-Ah Choi (Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea and Birds Korea) together with Isabelle Winter In April, migrants like Intermediate and Little Egrets, Cattle Egrets and Barn Swallows returned to the Yudo and Siam … read more
Birds news from Dr. Bernhard Seliger (Hanns Seidel Foundation, Birds Korea lifetime members) Not much change from last week, but this time I had the chance to see roosting birds at high tide at a very close range. Also, on … read more
Bird News from Dr. Bernhard Seliger (Hanns Seidel Foundation, Birds Korea lifetime members) A pleasant late afternoon walk along the shore of Songdo – after quite some time. It was the first time I saw the fence removed and now … read more
Bird News from Dr. Hyun-Ah Choi and Dr. Bernhard Seliger (both Hanns Seidel Foundation, Birds Korea lifetime members), Tobias Lauterjung (HSF Korea), and Dr. Han Donguk and the team of ECO Korea The 3rd survey of the Siam wetland/ Yudo … read more
Bird News from Dr DongUk Han (ECO Korea), Dr. Hyun-Ah Choi and Dr. Bernhard Seliger (both Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea, Birds Korea lifetime members) A nice spring-morning survey along the Han River from Goyang to Paju, in particular in Janghyang … read more
Bird News from Dr. Hyun-Ah Choi and Dr. Bernhard Seliger (both Hanns-Seidel-Foundation, Birds Korea lifetime members) The 2nd survey of the Siam wetland/ Yudo islet area, an outcome of a 2019 project between Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Korea and Gimpo city, brought us … read more
The ongoing development of construction and small-scale industry, but also recent events like the sanitation of large stretches of Imjin River to prevent the spread of African Swine Fever are likely reasons for an ever-increasing concentration of cranes inside the … read more
Bird News by Dr. Bernhard Seliger with Mr Kim Young-Soo Goseong, a divided county at the East Coast and the northernmost county of South Korea, has all the charm and interesting features of a border county, but at the same … read more