A rather spontaneous decision to do some birding brought me rather late (around 11.30 a.m.) to Sannam wetland. I thought it might be rather empty during daytime and a weekend, but there was a lot of disturbance from walkers and … read more
Birds News by Leslie Hurteau, with additional commentary by Nial Moores On Sunday November 4th and Monday November 5th, some time was spent in the field birdwatching with Dr. Nial Moores, who was visiting Jeju Island for work related reasons. … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores A fairly underwhelming week plus some in generally mild and unremarkable weather on Baengyeong Island, with a total of 146 or so species logged including one or two new island records: globally Endangered Scaly-sided Merganser … read more
Bird news from Nial Moores (Birds Korea) and Marshall Iliff (eBird) Counts and all species lists are posted / will be posted on eBird. On 11th, an early start at Junam Reservoir found half-a-dozen Pheasant-tailed Jacana and a good spread … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger (Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Korea, Birds Korea), Jeongmin Khil (Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Korea) and Prof. Dr. Tomasz Wierzbowski (HUFS) Parks sometimes can be teaming with birds, either because of a lack of suitable other habitat in cities, or because the have genuinely … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger, Dr. Hyun-Ah Choi (both Birds Korea and Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Korea) with Jeongmin Khil and Sabine Leykam (HSF Korea) Gochang in Jeollabukdo, a county at the Yellow Sea, still has vast tidal flats and beautiful rice-field areas. As part … read more
Bird news by Leslie Hurteau On June 10th, 2022, the Jeju Wildlife Research Center (제주야생동물연구센터) found a Crow-billed Drongo Dicrurus annectens on Mara Island, the most southern point of the ROK. This species has never been recorded in the Republic … read more
Bird news from Leslie Hurteau As May started, Spring migration was in full swing, with many interesting birds showing up on Jeju. Early May involved a weekend trip to nearby Chuja Island, which had a fair number of migrants, highlight … read more
나일 무어스, 백승광, 이수영, 장량 . 연천군과의 계약에 따라, 우리는 6월 2, 3, 4, 5, 7일 닷새 동안 연천 임진강 생물권보전지역에서 번식하는 조류와 그 밖의 다양한 생물을 조사하였고, 그 결과는 매우 생산적이었다. 약 12킬로미터의 (무척이나 아름다운) 산길을 걷고, 두 강줄기의 … read more
Nial Moores, Baek Seung-Kwang, Lee Su-Young and Jang Ryang Under contract from Yeoncheon County, we conducted five very productive days of survey of breeding birds and other biodiversity in the Yeoncheon Imjin River Biosphere Reserve on June 2nd, 3rd, 4th, … read more