Bird new from Subhojit Chakladar with Robin Newlin The regular weekend dash to Gageo to check out what the migration has brought forth. The sea crossing under overcast and increasingly windy conditions produced half a dozen Ancient Murrelet and 2 … read more
Bird News from Jason Loghry with Park Seonyeong This evening, we enjoyed a short peaceful walk near the Nakdong as the sun set. As we were watching a Black Kite low-gliding across the sky, a Common Snipe (2) quickly flew … read more
Bird News from Patrick Blake My wife and I made a brief visit to the mountains in East Gwangju at the Gakhwa reservoir. At least five Oriental Scops Owls were heard calling just before and after dusk. Also heard approximately … read more
Bird News from Patrick Blake, Jason Loghry, and Jang Jiung I spent an enjoyable weekend birding with Mr. Jason Loghry and Mr. Jang Jiung at several locations in the Busan area. The weather turned against us, with both days having … read more
Bird News from Tim Edelsten Most noteworthy among the usual suspects massed on the southern mudflat were 139 Saunders’s Gull, yawning and showing off their brilliant red gapes. Also six Black-faced Spoonbill present- sadly their roost site has been completely bulldozed for a … read more
Bird News from Jason Loghry Starting early in the morning, conditions were feeling very much like spring. It was windy, the air was brisk, there were dozens of inchworms hanging from silky threads throughout the woods and a thin layer … read more
Bird News from Andreas Kim The visit to the site in a grey morning with occasionally light rain showed not very many birds, but a good number of shorebird species on the natural tidal flat: 39 Bar-tailed Godwit (the number … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores The first heavy rain of the spring in Busan fell from early afternoon on the 17th (when single Western Osprey and Eurasian Woodcock in Igidae were the highlights in three wet hours of observation) through … read more
탐조인 장지웅 4월 13일 흑산도로 향하던 해상에서 슴새 20여 개체를 관찰하였습니다. 도착해서 바로 2구로 이동하며 탐조를 시작하였는데 유달리 황금새가 많았습니다. 4월 14일 탐조보다는 산행이 주가 되어버렸지만.. 후박나무와 동백나무 숲에서 많은 수의 숲새 및 지빠귀류를 관찰했으며, 흑비둘기 울음소리가 곳곳에서 들렸습니다. 신선봉에서 … read more
Bird News from Jang Ji-Ung April 16: A Tree Pipit was observed when I was birding at Haneul Park. It was with an Olive-backed Pipit and I was able to make a direct comparison, its supercilium was unclear, nearly absent … read more