{"id":13980,"date":"2015-01-03T13:47:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T04:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=13980"},"modified":"2015-03-21T08:08:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T23:08:26","slug":"gangneung-january-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=13980","title":{"rendered":"Gangneung, January 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bird News from Chris Gibbins<\/p>\n<p>In Korea for the New Year to study gulls, Prof. Chris Gibbins found and photographed an adult <b>Thayer\u2019s Gull<\/b> <i>Larus thayeri<\/i> at Gangneung in the morning of January 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, near to Gyeongpo Lake. He then apparently relocated the same bird 20km north at dusk.\u00a0 He has kindly given Birds Korea permission to post a few of his excellent images of the bird here.<\/p>\n<p>Following CG\u2019s call about the bird, a different birder visited the same area and found and photographed a possible second bird (unfortunately, the single images does not show enough detail of the primaries to confirm the identification, but structurally at least the bird looked remarkably like a <i>Thayer\u2019s<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>More of CG\u2019s stunning gull images from around the world can be seen at: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/chrisgibbins-gullsbirds.blogspot.com\">chrisgibbins-gullsbirds.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" src=\"http:\/\/www.birdskorea.org\/Images\/images2015\/01\/Thayers-Gull_CG-1.jpg\" title=\"Thayer's Gull\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"imgtxt\"><b>Thayer&#8217;s Gull<\/b> <i>Larus thayeri<\/i>, &#169; Chris Gibbins<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" src=\"http:\/\/www.birdskorea.org\/Images\/images2015\/01\/Thayers-Gull_CG-2.jpg\" title=\"Thayer's Gull\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"imgtxt\"><b>Thayer&#8217;s Gull<\/b> <i>Larus thayeri<\/i>, &#169; Chris Gibbins<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" src=\"http:\/\/www.birdskorea.org\/Images\/images2015\/01\/Thayers-Gull_CG-3.jpg\" title=\"Thayer's Gull\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"imgtxt\"><b>Thayer&#8217;s Gull<\/b> <i>Larus thayeri<\/i>, &#169; Chris Gibbins<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird News from Chris Gibbins In Korea for the New Year to study gulls, Prof. Chris Gibbins found and photographed an adult Thayer\u2019s Gull Larus thayeri at Gangneung in the morning of January 2nd, near to Gyeongpo Lake. He then &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=13980\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-sightings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13980","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13982,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13980\/revisions\/13982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}