Dr Nial Moores, National Director, Birds Korea
In 2025, Birds Korea successfully applied for a small grant from the EAAFP, to help support our counts of the globally Endangered Scaly-sided Merganser 호사비오리 along the Imjin River in Yeoncheon.
The small grant was used (1) to fund a high-frequency of counts of Scaly-sided Merganser, especially along 21km of the Imjin River in Yeoncheon County between October 2025 and April 2026; (2) to produce designs for signboards that could help to explain about this remarkable species and the river they depend on; and (3) to support the writing of a report that could present the count data.
The EAAFP has now posted a short article about our work for the small grant here; together with an Appendix, which is our much more detailed report on five-years of counts of Scaly-sided Merganser (Moores et al. 2026), that you can download below:
Reference
Moores, N., Baek S-K, Lee S-Y & Jang R. 2026. Improving the conservation status of the Scaly-sided Merganser along the Imjin River, Republic of Korea. EAAFP Small Grant report (August 2026)