{"id":11183,"date":"2013-12-12T17:45:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T08:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=11183"},"modified":"2014-01-04T17:53:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T08:53:27","slug":"jiseok-stream-december-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=11183","title":{"rendered":"Stream near Naju, December 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bird News from Robin Newlin and Andreas Kim<\/p>\n<p>As part of the continuing Scaly-sided Merganser survey, we visited a pretty stretch of river near Naju and found an encouraging 13\u00a0<b>Scaly-sided Mergansers<\/b>, an equivalent number of\u00a0<b>Common Mergansers<\/b>,\u00a0<b>82 Eastern Spot-billed Ducks<\/b>, 12\u00a0<b>Common Teal<\/b>\u00a0and a surprising 8\u00a0<b>Baikal Teal<\/b>, 8\u00a0<b>Little Grebes<\/b>, 2\u00a0<b>Far-eastern Buzzards<\/b>, 1\u00a0<b>Common Snipe<\/b>, 1\u00a0<b>Common Sandpiper<\/b>,1\u00a0<b>Eurasian Sparrowhawk<\/b>, several\u00a0<b>Grey Herons<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>Great Egrets<\/b>, 1\u00a0<b>Common Kestrel<\/b>\u00a0and 7\u00a0<b>Azure-winged Magpies<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>We also found some construction in progress along the banks of the stream that seems to transform the banks together with the islands in the river into a park like area.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Scaly-sided-Merganser_AK.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[11183]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Scaly-sided-Merganser_AK-e1386837477386.jpg\" alt=\"Scaly-sided-Merganser_AK\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11186\" \/><\/a><strong>Scaly-sided Merganser<\/strong> <em>Mergus squamatus<\/em>, \u00a9 Andreas Kim<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Common-Merganser_AK.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[11183]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Common-Merganser_AK-e1386837547633.jpg\" alt=\"Common-Merganser_AK\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11188\" \/><\/a><strong>Common Merganser<\/strong> <em>Mergus merganser<\/em> and <strong>Mallard<\/strong> <em>Anas platyrhynchos<\/em> (back), \u00a9 Andreas Kim<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Baikal-Teal_AK.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[11183]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Baikal-Teal_AK-e1386837606873.jpg\" alt=\"Baikal-Teal_AK\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11187\" \/><\/a><strong>Baikal Teal<\/strong> <em>Anas formosa<\/em> (back) and <strong>Mallard<\/strong> <em>Anas platyrhynchos<\/em> (front), \u00a9 Andreas Kim<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/River-construction-1.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[11183]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/River-construction-1-e1386837725704.jpg\" alt=\"River-construction-1\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11189\" \/><\/a>The board on the left explains that the &#8220;Eco-river&#8221; project has started (Feb. 2013) and that it is now prohibited to grow crops in this area. \u00a9 Andreas Kim<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/River-construction-2.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[11183]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/River-construction-2-e1386837839316.jpg\" alt=\"River-construction-2\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11190\" \/><\/a>Eco-river with rock-bordered islands?, \u00a9 Andreas Kim<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/River-construction-3.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[11183]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/River-construction-3-e1386837888398.jpg\" alt=\"River-construction-3\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11191\" \/><\/a>Eco-river with rock-bordered islands?, \u00a9 Andreas Kim<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird News from Robin Newlin and Andreas Kim As part of the continuing Scaly-sided Merganser survey, we visited a pretty stretch of river near Naju and found an encouraging 13\u00a0Scaly-sided Mergansers, an equivalent number of\u00a0Common Mergansers,\u00a082 Eastern Spot-billed Ducks, 12\u00a0Common &hellip; 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