{"id":12457,"date":"2014-05-06T23:13:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T14:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=12457"},"modified":"2014-05-13T21:24:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T12:24:53","slug":"baekryeong-island-incheon-may-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=12457","title":{"rendered":"Baekryeong Island, Incheon, May 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Bird News from Nial Moores &amp; Robin Newlin<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After several excellent days in the field on Baekryeong Island (more of which will be posted later!), a fair-weather arrival on the 6<sup>th<\/sup> produced a rapid increase in some species (most especially <b>Yellow-browed Warbler<\/b>,\u00a0 <b>Little<\/b> and <b>Yellow-breasted Bunting<\/b>, with <i>c.<\/i> 100 of the latter globally Endangered species present in only a small part of the island that was surveyed); a <i>wheatear <\/i>sp., seen only in high flight; and most exceptional of all, a stunning <b>Mongolian Lar<\/b><strong>k<\/strong> <i>Melanocorypha mongolica<\/i>. Found and photographed initially by NM in the early evening, the bird was also soon after seen and photographed by RN. Better images of this first record for the ROK are therefore likely to come soon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mongolian-Lark_NM-1.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[12457]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-12624\" alt=\"Mongolian-Lark_NM-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mongolian-Lark_NM-1.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mongolian-Lark_NM-1.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mongolian-Lark_NM-1-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mongolian-Lark_NM-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/b><b>Mongolian Lar<\/b><strong>k<\/strong>\u00a0<i>Melanocorypha mongolica,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a9\u00a0<\/i>Nial Moores<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mongolian-Lark_NM-2.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[12457]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-12625\" alt=\"Mongolian-Lark_NM-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mongolian-Lark_NM-2.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mongolian-Lark_NM-2.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mongolian-Lark_NM-2-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mongolian-Lark_NM-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/b><b>Mongolian Lar<\/b><strong>k<\/strong>\u00a0<i>Melanocorypha mongolica,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a9\u00a0<\/i>Nial Moores<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mongolian-Lark_NM-3.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[12457]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-12626\" alt=\"Mongolian-Lark_NM-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mongolian-Lark_NM-3.jpg\" width=\"612\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mongolian-Lark_NM-3.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mongolian-Lark_NM-3-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mongolian-Lark_NM-3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a>Mongolian Lar<\/b><strong>k<\/strong>\u00a0<i>Melanocorypha mongolica,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a9\u00a0<\/i>Nial Moores<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird News from Nial Moores &amp; 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 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=12457\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":12464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[600,714,715],"class_list":["post-12457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-baekryeong-island","tag-korea-first","tag-mongolian-lark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12457"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12628,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457\/revisions\/12628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}