Nial Moores, Birds Korea, August 2019 Late last year, the IOC revised their taxonomy of white-eyes, which included recognizing the simplex subspecies of “Japanese White-eye” and several other taxa as Swinhoe’s White-eye; and reorganizing “Japanese White-eye”, which they now list … read more
Nial Moores, Birds Korea, December 14th 2017 Oriental Skylark Alauda gulgula, Cambodia, December 10th 2017 © Nial Moores Far Eastern Lark Alauda japonica, Ulleung Island, Republic of Korea, November 4th 2014 © Nial Moores Last week, following an important … read more
For those interested in finding out more about birds on the other side of the Yellow Sea in Shanghai, please check out Craig Brelsford’s English-language Shanghai Birding. For an article on the same blog looking at Mongolian, Taimyr and Vega … read more
Nial Moores, February 18th, 2017 Peter Pyle, in lit. February 7th 2017: ” Well, again, I’m ready to proclaim your bird a certain Western Gull after initial doubts…” December and January along the Goseong county coast between Daejin and Geojin … read more
Nial Moores, November 16th 2015. On November 15th, I birded Guryongpo with Jason Loghry, Ha Jeong Mun and Seo Hae-Min. Driving through Gyeongju, from the moving car we saw a flock of perhaps 40 Little Egret Egretta garzetta leaving their … read more
Nial Moores, August 23, 2015 Below are a few digiscoped images of American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus taken between August 9th and 15th, 2015, in Nova Scotia, eastern Canada (and for comparison a few gull images from Korea). Most of … read more
Dr. Nial Moores, Birds Korea, July 14th 2015 As described in the previous post (which looked at the 1996 record of Wilson’s Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor), there are at least 50 revisions to consider making to the 2014 Birds Korea Checklist. … read more
Nial Moores, July 7th/ 8th 2015 (with much essential input from Peter Pyle and Tristan McKee, in December and again in July 2015) Revisiting a potential first for Korea (and Asia?) in the hope of more comments! At dusk on … read more
Dr. Nial Moores, Birds Korea, May 29th : with further edits on June 2nd 2015 “Barking Cuckoo” Cuculus sp. Baekryeong Island, May 28, 2014 © Nial Moores. Note the brown forehead; the strong flank barring; and the greatly reduced barring … read more
Dr. Nial Moores, May 28th 2015 Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus cristatus. Baekryeong Island, May 15 2015 © Nial Moores Korea is probably the best place in the world to enjoy the full variation shown by Brown Shrike Lanius cristatus, especially … read more