Bird News by Jason Loghry, Ha Jung-Mun, Nial Moores, Shim Kyu-Sik, Song In-Sik, Lee Yong-Sang, Maria Lisak, and Patrick Blake August 24 On Saturday morning, a group of Birds Koreans met to look at seabirds off Heuksan Island. It was … read more
Bird News from Andreas Kim The stream at high tide had only few birds. 2 Great Egret, 1 Intermediate Egret, 3 Little Egret, 1 Striated Heron, 4 Grey-tailed Tattler, 1 Black-backed Wagtail, a short appearing Common Kingfisher as well as … read more
Bird News from Tim Edelsten The heatwave continues into a third month of temperatures above 30 degrees and 80% humidity. At Songdo, where further chunks of habitat dissapear under construction with each new visit, dwindling birdlife is crowded into ever … read more
Bird News highlights from “Team Spoony: the Movie” by Nial Moores As part of Birds Korea work on a mini-documentary on Spoon-billed Sandpiper and tidal-flat conservation, a team of Birds Koreans (Paul Mossine, Ha Jung-Moon, Jason Loghry, Lee Jung-Kyu and … read more
Bird News from Tim Edelsten Summer is very quiet, birdwise, in Korea. Personally I view it as an enjoyable challenge to find stuff, but this also involves surviving the sweltering heat and humidity. My watch of “airport island” began with … read more
Bird News from Spike Millington 28 July Checked the Gojan mudflats at high tide on a wet and windy day, but the water was up to the wall, leaving no roosting areas for shorebirds. So I checked the University area, … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores In rather hot (30C), humid and hazy conditions, a quick late afternoon trip out to Igidae. This was both to look for early signs of autumn and also to test out my new “long-loan” scope: … read more
Bird News from Spike Millington, 21 July 2013 Just back from travels in USA and Europe, I popped down to the University area in Songdo to check on the Black-winged Stilts. When I left in early June, one male Stilt … read more
Bird News from Yoli Park Two birders from Japan told me that they couldn’t make it this year to Busan, so I volunteered to go in their place in May. For nearly two weeks I stayed at Taejongdae, getting up … read more
Bird news from Subhojit Chakladar, Bradlee Sulentic and Jason Loghry Starting at the crack of dawn amidst heavy rain, we reached Seosan lake A just as the rain had abated and a nice breeze brought some respite from the humidity. … read more