Bird News from Matt Poll I have been checking my local Seogwipo patch daily for the past month. It’s been an unseasonably warm and hazy January, with double digit temperatures most days. I haven’t encountered anything unexpected, but Jeju has … read more
Jeju Island, November 25, 2013 By a concerned citizen On November 12th while at the Jungmun tourist complex on Jeju’s south coast, I happened to walk through the lobby of a large luxury hotel. I was more than a little … read more
Bird news from Matt Poll and Mike Balfour It’s great to be back on Jeju, although a lot of construction/destruction has been going on over the past two years. At a site on Halla’s southern slope formerly home to Fairy … read more
Nial Moores, September 14th Some folks have asked why I am not at the IUCN’s World Conservation Congress (WCC). This is an extremely hard question to answer simply. In 2008, the Ramsar Convention conference in Changwon (ROK), with all of … read more
Bird news from Matthew Poll I finally managed to spot a Fairy Pitta today, in a narrow and quiet valley. It was calling loudly, moving unseen through the treetops for well over an hour before it dropped down onto a … read more
Bird news from Mathew Poll, Young Ho Kim, with David and Heather McDowell A nice mix of fog and sun, for a full day of showing visiting birders around the island. In an evergreen forest near the northeast coast, … read more
Bird News from Matthew Poll Some interesting birds on Mara-do, Korea’s southernmost point, on a hot day made hazy with yellow dust from China. A dozen Siberian Stonechats, several Eurasian Siskins, at least two dozen Brambling, seven Red-throated Pipit, a … read more