2015년 부산기후변화대책영화제
2015년 부산기후변화대책영화제 작년에 이어 영화의 도시, 부산에서 새로운 영화제가 11월 6일, 막을 올립니다! 두 편의 한국영화, 많은 관객을 모실 수 있는 시설을 갖춘 영화관, 국제적으로 화제가 되고 있는 최신버전의 영화로 여러분을 초대합니다. 부산베지페스트(Busan Veggie Fest):영화제 개막행사 영화상영 전, 부산지역채식인 및 … read more
Conservation
Spoon-billed Sandpiper Records in the ROK, 2015
The international Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force is still keen to receive all records of Spoon-billed Sandpiper in the ROK in order to help refine understanding of this Critically Endangered species’ population trend and movements. In return they can help with … read more
The Merganser and the Tiger: Spirits of the Wilderness
Dr. Nial Moores, Birds Korea, September 30th 2015 The Scaly-sided Merganser Mergus squamatus is both exquisitely-plumaged and globally Endangered. It breeds only along forest-sided rivers in some of the wildest country in Far East Asia. Shy and elusive, its often … read more
Experts join ‘SBS in China’ to develop a wader ringing program on the Jiangsu coast
SBS in China and a group of international wader experts (Nigel Clark of BTO, Guy Anderson from RSPB, Richard Hearn from WWT, Ewan Weston from Highland Ringing Group and David Melvile from New Zealand) were in China to join Professor … read more
Winter Bird Tours in the ROK
Do you want to see Scaly-sided Mergansers and Baikal Teal? Steller’s Sea Eagle and Red-crowned Crane? Siberian and White-naped Crane? Siberian Accentor and Pallas’s Rosefinch? To look through flocks of Slaty-backed and Vega Gulls to pick out Mongolian and Glaucous-winged … read more
Science Insider: Experts condemn China’s training of monkeys to destroy bird nests
Science article by Christina Larson, September 2, 2015: “BEIJING—Tomorrow, China’s government ….(is) staging an airshow with jet fighters. To safeguard China’s rarely seen military aircraft….the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has trained a squadron of male rhesus macaques to search and … read more
Owl Cafés
Christian Artuso, Ph.D., August 2015 – An owl biologist’s expert commentary provided to Birds Korea The recent establishment and popularity of owl cafés or “owl shops” (fukuro no mise) in Japan has caused considerable concern for the wellbeing of the … read more
The new EL Family binoculars: Limitless perfection
“It’s the love of birds, the pure beauty of avian subjects and the overwhelming abundance and diversity of nature that draws many individuals to birding.” – Swarovski Optik Birds Korea is proud to acknowledge the generous support of Swarovski Optik … read more
Police to Lift Restrictions on Civilian Firearm Usage to Hunt Hazardous Wild Animals
SEOUL, Jul. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Police Agency has loosened restrictions on borrowing firearms from police stations, to reduce damages on farms caused by hazardous wild animals. The agency has introduced two time schedules to borrow and return … read more
Population Trend of the World’s Monitored Seabirds, 1950-2010
Another paper providing a sobering estimate of population declines, this time in the world’s seabirds, published on Plos One: http://www.plosone.org/article/comments/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0129342 Three quick take-aways: 1) Seabirds are valuable indicators of marine ecosystem health; 2) Many populations of the world’s seabirds are … read more