Bird News from Nial Moores & Bernhard Seliger Highlights from survey work in the northeast near the inner border between February 22nd and 25th included exceptional numbers of Carrion Crow, a flock of 75+ Pine Bunting and a presumed Willow … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores with Park Heajeong (Hwaseong KFEM) and Jung Hanchul. Three more days of survey in sweltering summer heat, with a minimum 7,166 shorebirds counted within the Hwaseong Wetlands FNS and 9,418 shorebirds counted within the Asan … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores (Birds Korea) with Jung Hanchul and Park Hea-Jeong (Hwaseong KFEM) The fourth in ten or so surveys of shorebirds and other waterbirds at the Hwaseong Flyway Network Site (FNS) as part of the EAAFP-Hwaseong City … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea (April 2nd 2020). I am not a medical doctor and I do not pretend to have specialist knowledge or insights on the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, as someone who lives in the Republic of Korea (ROK), … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea, February 28th 2020 As reported by the AFP, on February 27th, “Britain’s Court of Appeal on Thursday ruled in favour of green campaigners who oppose the building of a third runway at London’s Heathrow airport, … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea, January 24th 2020 It was a really ambitious program: a week-long visit from the UK by Trevor Rose of Rose Design Services Ltd. to the Republic of Korea (ROK), to share his expertise on amphibian … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea, December 22nd 2019 Our members and readers of this blog will likely already be familiar with the conservation importance of the DMZ and adjacent Civilian Control Zone (CCZ); and also Birds Korea’s position on some … read more
2013년 이후 백령도에서 진행해 온 새와생명의터 연구·조사로 그 동안 기록된 조류는 350종이며, 이 중에서 몇 종은 국내에서 하루에 발견된 수치로는 최대로 추정된다. 2018년 10월에 발견된 8,000개체의 쑥새(지구 취약종)와 2019년 5월에 발견된 240개체의 검은머리촉새(지구멸종위기종)가 이에 속한다. 백령도에서 관찰된 일부 종은 이전에 … read more
A remarkable study published in Science (accessible in full here) by Rosenberg et al. (2019) estimates a loss of 2.9 billion birds from North America in only the past 50 years. This represents a decline of 29% in the total … read more
Jared Busen, October 13th 2019 I am a US Soldier stationed here in the Republic of Korea (ROK). I have been birding since 2003 when I saw my first Black-necked Stilt (LC) in the US. I became a … read more