Bird News from Nial Moores with Kim Eojin (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT4L9YtF2G0) and Park Cheong Un (October 24) and Subhojit Chakladar (October 26-27). All images below © Nial Moores Two weeks on Baengnyeong Island, with a typical autumn total of only 148 … read more
Circling Cinereous Vultures and White-naped Cranes over the inner border, skeins of geese heading south, Hill Pigeons, flocks of buntings (but still very few finches), and an internationally important count of 52 Scaly-sided Merganser…combined with a wonderfully positive education program … read more
Bird news and photos by Leslie Hurteau. Fall migration started with a slow trickle of interesting species in late August here in Jeju City. Yellow-rumped Flycatcher, Grey-backed Thrush, and Black Paradise Flycatchers were expected and found. as September began, the … read more
Happy to use part of the holiday for a short visit of Siam wetland and Hangang Estuary after a long long summer hiatus. Too many bicyclists in the more Southern part – the “pyongwha-nuri-gil”, a bicycle lane along the border … read more
Shortly before the start of the UN-ESCAP workshop on biodiversity (on which a separate report will follow), a short visit to the Gochan tidal flat. Time was not really good, arriving almost at low tide. Anyway, a number of waders, … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea, August 26th 2024 (with additional information and images, September 1st) The simplified 2024 Birds Korea Checklist includes Hartert’s Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus goodsoni for the first time. The species is included in a Review Category (i.e., … read more
Bird news and photos by Leslie Hurteau. Part two of a two part blogpost about exploring the south central mainland. Part one here. Goheung was the next stop, and it proved to have a very nice selection of habitat. Goheung … read more
Bird news and photos by Leslie Hurteau. Part one of a two part blogpost about exploring the south central mainland. Part two here. The southcoast of Korea is a very interesting place from a birders perspective. Unlike the east coast … read more
나일 무어스 & 하정문, 2024년 8월 17일 지난 2022년 발표한 새와 생명의 터 2022년 조류 목록 이후, 다양한 피드백을 받았습니다. 이와 관련된 내용을 반영한 전체판을 발표하기에 앞서, 기본적인 내용을 담은 간소화판을 먼저 선보입니다. 본 간소화판은 2024년 7월까지 국내에서 기록된 모든 … read more
Dr. Nial Moores & Dr Ha Jungmoon, August 17th 2024 (with one revision made on August 27th). Below, as a pdf download and as an extended blog post, follows a simplified version of the English-language 2024 Birds Korea Checklist, which … read more