Dr. Nial Moores, Birds Korea, May 11th 2015 To mark World Migratory Bird Day 2015, BirdLife Australia has apparently released revised conservation status assessments of seven shorebird species that spend the boreal winter (i.e. our winter) in Australia: WMBD-Species-Profiles-2015. Because … read more
새와 생명의 터. 저는 2015년 탐조대회에서 최근에 가입하게 된 저희 단체의 이름의 의미를 그대로 경험하고 느꼈습니다. 이번 대회에서는 다양한 새들과 그들의 삶의 터전을 천천히 관찰하고 깨우치는 시간을 가질 수 있었으며, 특히 다양한 경험과 지식을 나눠주신 Dr. Nial Moores(나일 무어스 박사님), … read more
A message received today from the wonderful Australasian Wader Studies Group (AWSG), Birds Korea’s partners during the Saemangeum Shorebird Monitoring Program (2006-2008). The AWSG has been a lead organisation in shorebird conservation on this Flyway for many years. They now … read more
A notice received today from Simba Chan in BirdLife (April 8th): Volunteers needed to find remaining endangered Yellow-breasted Buntings in Mongolia Populations of Yellow-breasted Bunting Emberiza aureola, are rapidly declining across their range and have recently been classified as endangered … read more
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-17/philippine-billionaire-razon-to-buy-korean-island-in-casino-push?cmpid=yhoo In a country where developers seem to have a cringe-worthy disregard for the environmental consequences of their relentless large-scale projects, is this another troubling sign of things to come? When there is no viable peninsular land left to develop … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea, March 12th 2015 The Task Force News Bulletin 13 (February 2015), posted on the increasingly excellent EAAFP website, confirms that for now at least the rapid rate of decline of the charismatic and Critically Endangered … read more
Dr. Nial Moores, Birds Korea, February 17th 2015 Once common, now globally Endangered: Yellow-breasted Bunting Emberiza aureola, May 2014© Nial Moores An important paper by Ding Li Yong et al. (2015), officially published next month, provides a very useful overview … read more
Dr. Nial Moores, Birds Korea, February 13th 2015. Any meaningful discussion on tidal-flat conservation in the Republic of Korea (and elsewhere) needs to be based on best information. At the very least, this best information needs to include the area … read more
Survey report by Jason Loghry with Lee Keesan, Choi Su-Yeon and Mike Friel On Saturday, a team of us from Birds Korea surveyed the Southeast River for Scaly-sided Merganser. This is the same river that we monitored in the winter of … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger, Hanns Seidel Foundation (Korea), February 2, 2015 Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus, Goseong County @ Bernhard Seliger For a long time, the lagoons in Goseong County on the Korean East coast were famous wetlands for wintering Whooper Swans … read more