Bird news from Spike Millington As Birdlife Australia plans its annual Farewell Shorebirds celebration, Tomoko Ichikawa, Eugene Cheah and I decided to check out the mudflats around Songdo for early migrants. First up was Aam Do, the traditional site for … read more
Tim Edelsten with Robin Newlin & Rob MacFie At Oksu today, the regular pre-migratory gathering of ducks made a spectacular sight as they swarmed in an ever tighter bunch toward sunset. Undoubted star of the occasion (seen quite distantly) was a male Baer’s Pochard-“type” (that seems to have … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores with Robert Orenstein (and Bernhard Seliger on the 27th) We enjoyed a very successful (high-speed!) visit to several top sites (Nakdong Estuary and Junam on the 24th; Southeast River, Geum Estuary and Seosan on the … read more
Bird News from Subhojit Chakladar Starting on the New Chinese/Lunar New Year day in a rain soaked Sokcho, both the lakes in the city were unbelievably void of bird life. With a constant drizzle, strong winds and ominous clouds over … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores Two interesting afternoons were spent checking inshore waters off eastern Busan, from Cheongsapo to Taejongdae, with several birding highlights including a Brown Booby and more than 500 Rhinoceros Auklet counted. On 16th, overnight rain continued … read more
Bird News from Bernhard Seliger and Thomas Findeis After participating in the UNESCAP-Environmental Research Foundation DMZ habitat survey,Thomas Findeis, a noted expert on the former inner-German border (the so-called Green Belt, the largest European biotope network with more than 1300 … read more
Bird News from Subhojit Chakladar A few hours along the Namhan river in Chungju produced some good (and predictable) birds. The long staying (and much photographed) Great Grey Shrike and Red-Crested Pochard provided the first new birds this year for … chungju
Bird news from Tim Edelsten Very spring-like, a warm 12 degrees Celsius. On the regular berry trees (very heavily-laden this year), only Brown-eared Bulbuls were to be seen. There seems to have been an apparent total absence of finches, thrushes, waxwings … read more
Bird News from Mike Friel Small birds – unless nesting – are quite unpredictable in their movements. However, the Yellow-bellied Tits near Majin always seem to come quickly on a sunny day when I add some hot water to their … read more
Birds News from Nial Moores On land, today was a day of “spring greens” in continuing mild conditions (though with a steadily increasing and chilly westerly wind), with excellent views of feeding Grey-capped Greenfinch and Grey-headed Woodpecker and a briefer … read more