Bird News from Andreas Kim Since the shorebirds arrived, 1-2 visits to the site every day is for checking on leg-flagged birds. today 47 Bar-tailed Godwit were present, among them orange leg-flagged 3V. This individual was banded in January 2011 and seen on … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores A full day in Igidae Park (6am-6pm) under generally clear blue skies with W/NW 3 winds and temperatures rising to 16-17C. Despite the crowds of people and vehicles, again some truly excellent birding. Covering a … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores A quick late afternoon visit to Igidae in fair weather (long sunny periods, with Beaufort 3 westerly winds and a maximum temperature of c.14C) was surprisingly bird-rich. Although there was no time to check several … read more
Bird News from Andreas Kim Since the weekend the first Bar-tailed Godwit had arrived in Mokpo. Today there were 26 with two leg-flagged individuals. In addition 1 Great Knot, c. 50 Dunlin and c. 30 Kentish Plover and 18 Little Ringed Plover were seen. Circa numbers of ducks still … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores & Jason Loghry Following the westerly passage of a vigorous low pressure system on Saturday April 6th (with heavy rain and occasionally moderate to strong winds) a day spent birding several of Busan’s better birding … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores A few hours in the park at Igidae under hazy blue skies with the maximum temperature rising to 15-16C, though feeling cooler in a moderate easterly. There were several signs that landbird migration is gathering … read more
Bird News from Andreas Kim The afternoon visit to the tidal-flats of Aphae showed no birds on the northern tidal-flat; very strong wind and waves from the sea-side had pushed all birds of the site. The southern tital-flat filled more … read more
Bird News from Spike Millington, 25 March. After a fly-by Oriental Stork at lunch on Saturday, I visited the Sorae mudflats at a pretty low high tide in the afternoon with Minseon Kim, Kwanmok Kim, Youngmin Kim (yes, a lot … read more
Bird News from Ha Jung Moon At Yeongjong-do, I looked around the south-western mudflat and farm areas. There were just a few winter visitors left, but I observed one Relict Gull in 2nd winter plumage, and 3 early visiting Far … read more
Bird News by Jason Loghry It was a hazy afternoon, with a strong breeze and a high of 17 °C. With three hours until sunset (6:34pm), I spent my time near the reed beds of the most upstream portion of … read more