{"id":10751,"date":"2013-11-21T15:41:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T06:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=10751"},"modified":"2014-05-28T23:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T14:47:00","slug":"scaly-sided-merganser-winter-survey-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=10751","title":{"rendered":"Scaly-sided Merganser winter survey begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Birds Korea Scaly-sided Merganser Winter Monitoring Project<\/h3>\n<p>Jason Loghry, November 21, 2013<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re very happy to report 36 <strong>Scaly-sided Mergansers<\/strong> (as well as 67 <strong>Mandarin Duck<\/strong>) were observed on November 16, as part of an &#8220;initial&#8221; survey kick-starting this winter&#8217;s Birds Korea Scaly-sided Merganser monitoring project. The <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a title=\"Scaly-sided Merganser IUCN\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iucnredlist.org\/details\/22680488\/0\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Endangered Scaly-sided Merganser<\/span><\/a><\/span>, found only in East Asia, is one of the world&#8217;s most unique merganser species and it&#8217;s in trouble. Conservationists suspect its population is undergoing a rapid decline as a result of habitat loss, illegal hunting and disturbance. <\/p>\n<p>In the ROK, there is an urgent need to better understand Scaly-sided Merganser&#8217;s winter distribution and ecology. This season, Birds Korea will continue our bi-monthly (twice a month) SE River surveys, and we are pleased to announce we will also hold our annual nation-wide survey for Scaly-sided Merganser. But we need your support. If you would like to help us help Scaly-sided Merganser, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdskorea.org\/Support_us\/BK-SU-membership.shtml\" title=\"Please join us\" target=\"_blank\">join Birds Korea<\/a> as a monthly member and help support conservation projects like this.<\/p>\n<p>We are planning a small workshop in December for members wanting to volunteer and join in this year&#8217;s annual nation-wide survey. For any information about this project or event, please email us <a href=\"mailto:jason.loghry@birdskorea.org\">here<\/a>. And to learn more about Scaly-sided Merganser, please visit our website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdskorea.org\/Birds\/Key_Species\/BK-KS-Scaly-sided-Merganser.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.birdskorea.org\/Birds\/Key_Species\/BK-KS-Scaly-sided-Merganser.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC_0172_01-e1384934774156.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[10751]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10765\" alt=\"DSC_0172_01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC_0172_01-e1384934889719.jpg\" width=\"577\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><strong>Scaly-sided Merganser<\/strong> <em>Mergus sqamatus<\/em> \u00a9 Mike Friel<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC_0043_01-e1384934633736.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[10751]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC_0043_01-e1384934633736.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0043_01\" width=\"580\" height=\"429\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10760\" \/><\/a><strong>Scaly-sided Merganser<\/strong> <em>Mergus sqamatus<\/em>, Adult Males and Female \u00a9 Mike Friel<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birds Korea Scaly-sided Merganser Winter Monitoring Project Jason Loghry, November 21, 2013 We&#8217;re very happy to report 36 Scaly-sided Mergansers (as well as 67 Mandarin Duck) were observed on November 16, as part of an &#8220;initial&#8221; survey kick-starting this winter&#8217;s &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=10751\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-10751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-scaly-sided-merganser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10751"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12870,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751\/revisions\/12870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}