{"id":12927,"date":"2014-05-26T20:35:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T11:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=12927"},"modified":"2014-05-30T09:37:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T00:37:32","slug":"baekryeong-island-may-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=12927","title":{"rendered":"Baekryeong Island, May 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bird News from Nial Moores<\/p>\n<p>With no boat for four days, finally arrived back on the island at 8pm on the 25<sup>th<\/sup> in still-dense fog. This cleared by early morning, being replaced by warm sunshine and light to moderate yellow-dust westerlies. On the 26<sup>th<\/sup> itself, at least 91 species logged, with a couple more &ndash; including a flock of <b>Ruddy Turnstone<\/b> heard passing overhead &#8211; late at night on the 25<sup>th<\/sup>). Most of the typical late migrants were present in small numbers (e.g. <b>Black-capped Kingfisher<\/b>, <b>Oriental Dollarbird<\/b>,  <b>Tiger<\/b> and <b>Brown Shrikes)<\/b>, with more numerous species including <b>Eastern Cattle Egret<\/b> (70+), <b>Arctic Warbler<\/b> (40+), <b>Kamchatka Leaf Warbler <\/b>(20+) and <b>Asian Brown Flycatcher<\/b> (25).<\/p>\n<p>Species of most note on the 26<sup>th<\/sup> included single <b>Chinese Blackbird<\/b>, <b>Black Drongo <\/b>and <b>Citrine Wagtail<\/b>, a <b>Fairy Pitta<\/b> heard late in the evening, and multiple encounters with <i>cuckoos<\/i> (including perhaps 20-25 <b>Common<\/b>, five <b>Indian <\/b>and three <b>Lesser Cuckoos<\/b> and proper sightings for the first time of the unknown &ldquo;barking&rdquo; cuckoo of last year&rsquo;s &ldquo;Going Cuckoo&rdquo; post, this time watched in song: more will be posted about this later). Even rarer (at least in the Korean context!) was a record-breaking group of at least 11 <b>Himalayan Swiftlet<\/b> counted in one scan late in the evening, mixed in with a group of c. 50-100 <i>swift<\/i> <i>sp<\/i>. Three <b>Pacific Swift<\/b> were positively identified; however, even closer birds simply looked all-dark and sadly had to be left unidentified &ndash; while probably half were too distant to ID even as either <i>swift <\/i>or <i>swiftlet<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" src=\"http:\/\/www.birdskorea.org\/Images\/images2014\/05\/Brown-Shrike_NM.jpg\" title=\"Brown Shrike\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"imgtxt\"><b>Brown Shrike<\/b> <i>Lanius cristatus<\/i>, &#169; Nial Moores<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" src=\"http:\/\/www.birdskorea.org\/Images\/images2014\/05\/Eastern-Cattle-Egret_NM-1.jpg\" title=\"Eastern Cattle Egret\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"imgtxt\"><b>Eastern Cattle Egret<\/b> <i>Bubulcus coromandus<\/i> with breeding bare-part coloration, &#169; Nial Moores<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" src=\"http:\/\/www.birdskorea.org\/Images\/images2014\/05\/Eastern-Cattle-Egret_NM-2.jpg\" title=\"Eastern Cattle Egret\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"imgtxt\"><b>Eastern Cattle Egret<\/b> <i>Bubulcus coromandus<\/i> with breeding bare-part coloration, &#169; Nial Moores<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird News from Nial Moores With no boat for four days, finally arrived back on the island at 8pm on the 25th in still-dense fog. This cleared by early morning, being replaced by warm sunshine and light to moderate yellow-dust &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=12927\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":12928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[600],"class_list":["post-12927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-baekryeong-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12927","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=12927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12929,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12927\/revisions\/12929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}