By Elena Kim More than 200 whooper swans have migrated to reserve’s Lake Ulug-Kol this weekend. Saline lakes usually thaw out earlier than fresh water lakes; and it is the early spring that encouraged the birds to come to Khakassia … read more
Posted on 26 March 2014, at the WWF website: “Seoul, Korea – WWF, the leading global conservation organization, has established an institutional presence in the Republic of Korea, marked by official ceremonies in the capital Seoul this week. Following its … read more
Six organizations, the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA), Korea Agency for Saemangeum Development and Investment (KASD), the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI), Korea Federation of Small and Medium Business (KFSM), Industrial Bank, and Jeollabuk-do, recently signed a pact to support … read more
If you want to know what it’s like to bird Monoglia in mid-winter, be sure and check out Birding Mongolia’s most recent posts: http://birdsmongolia.blogspot.kr/2014_02_01_archive.html This also includes a closer look at the identification of two species of redpoll that occur … read more
Jason Loghry, February 15, 2014 For those of us obsessed with wind and movement, the Earth Wind Map website could be of interest. It is a visualization of global weather conditions forecast by supercomputers updated every three hours with ocean … read more
Nial Moores PhD, Birds Korea, January 8th 2014 Following on from last month’s article in the Wall Street Journal (https://www.birdskoreablog.org/?p=11510), Birds Korea would like to thank an overseas expert for sharing three additional links to media articles from 2012 and … read more
Nial Moores PhD, Birds Korea, January 6th 2014 Thanks to a Birds Korea supporter for drawing attention to a piece last month (on December 6th) in the Wall Street Journal, accessible at: http://on.wsj.com/1c9JWyz. Entitled “South Korea’s $35 Billion ‘Labor of … read more
Sunny Yun, November 19, 2013 Sunny International Home School “If each student picks one species of bird that occurs here in Korea, studies it and shares what they find with others, wouldn’t they start to care about and love these … read more
Jason Loghry, November 7, 2013 Birds Korea Last month, Birds Koreans spent several days with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology team at Saemangeum. We found many migratory shorebirds still feeding near some of the non-natural tidal creeks, species such as … read more
Birds Korea, November 21st 2012 The Flyway and Birds Korea have both lost a wonderful friend . Ms. Heather Gibbs, researcher, data-compiler, mother and conservationist passed on November 9th. We first learned of this terrible news last week – and … read more