Bird News from Nial Moores With no boat for four days, finally arrived back on the island at 8pm on the 25th in still-dense fog. This cleared by early morning, being replaced by warm sunshine and light to moderate yellow-dust … read more
Bird News from Robin Newlin, often with Nial Moores and Tim Edelsten Since my 5 days on the island fall within the period Dr. Moores’ stay, and to avoid redundancy, the following account lists a few highlights and then gives … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores & Robin Newlin After several excellent days in the field on Baekryeong Island (more of which will be posted later!), a fair-weather arrival on the 6th produced a rapid increase in some species (most especially … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores Rain both days though with winds stubbornly from the north-east meant only a few new arrivals. Highlights on 27th included single Great Knot and Red-necked Stint; a half-dozen Grey-tailed Tattler; a group of 10+ simplex Japanese White-eye (still present there on the 28th, … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores After a day’s delay due to fog, the ferry departed Incheon for Baekryeong. The journey was smooth over calm seas, but my own mood (and no doubt that of many others’) was extraordinarily heavy. We … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores After survey visits in March and May, a late autumn survey was conducted on one half-day (November 1st) and ten full days between November 2nd and 12th on Baekryeong Island, Ongjin County. Although this period … read more
Posted by Jason Loghry, June 7 A fascinating article with sound-recordings of all four of Korea’s cuculus cuckoo species, images of last week’s mystery cuckoo on Baekryeong, and an extra image of an “orange-headed cuckoo” (photographed by Dr. Choi Soon-Kyu … read more
Posted By Jason Loghry, Birds Korea, June 6 A new page has opened today on the Birds Korea’s websites, with lots of new information and images of birding hot-spot Baekryeong Island in Incheon: http://www.birdskorea.org/Habitats/Other/Baekryeongdo/BK-HA-Baekryeongdo.shtml The page already hosts a detailed … read more
Selected Bird News from Nial Moores, on some dates with Matt Poll and Robin Newlin Arriving at midday on the 16th, survey effort by NM on Baekryeong Island has ranged from a minimum 5 hours up to a maximum 17 … read more