Bird news from Subhojit Chakladar Accompanied by a team of Birds Koreans and some other friends, we visited Yubudo to checkout shorebirds during the afternoon high tide on Sunday, April 11th. Even at high tide, the water levels were relatively … read more
Birds news from Dr. Bernhard Seliger (Hanns Seidel Foundation and Birds Korea lifetime member) On the whole, a very frustrating morning in Paju – construction at Gongneungchong not only made the newly-bridged area completely devoid of bird, but also affected … read more
Bird news from Leslie Hurteau A Sunday afternoon was spent on Ganghwa-do with Dr. Soyoung Sung, Subhojit Chakladar, and Todd Hull, to scan rice fields for vagrant geese. After a bit of searching and not finding anything out of the … read more
Birds news from Nial Moores (Birds Korea) and Jung Hanchul (Gyeonggi KFEM and Birds Korea member). Highlights in the FNS during further survey for the EAAFP Hwaseong Wetlands Project funded by Hwaseong City included a single Long-billed Dowitcher (our 111th … read more
Bird news from Leslie Hurteau On a cold Sunday in the middle of a freezing winter, Dr. Amaël Borzée and I went to a mountain near Taebaek in search of Asian Rosy Finches, an area known to have them in … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores and Jung Hanchul, with Lee Jiwone on 12th Impressive spring migration revealed by three more days of survey in the Hwaseong Wetlands FNS, conducted as part of the ongoing Hwaseong Wetlands Project led by the … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger (Birds Korea, Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea) After heavy snowfall, the snow laying more than one meter high on the Jinburyeong pass, and around 60 cm down to the coast, there was an interesting mix of birdlife along … read more
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
Dr. Bernhard Seliger and Dr. Choi Hyun-Ah (Birds Korea, Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea) Another survey in the starting migration season, though still bitterly cold with – 11° C in the morning and only slowly warming up. Along the Han river, … read more
Seabird survey led by Nial Moores with Amaël Borzée (Nanjing Forestry University and Birds Korea member), Bernhard Seliger and Felix Glenk (Hanns Seidel Foundation, Korea office) and “Team EAAFP” (Doug Watkins, Chief Executive of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership Secretariat, … read more