– Baikal Teal<\/strong> (8) mixed in with other waterfowl at the Gwangju Lake Eco-Park; these were a personal new species for this location – Eurasian Sparrowhawk<\/strong> (1) and Eastern Buzzard<\/strong> (1) at Gwangju Lake Eco-Park – Common Shelduck<\/strong> (4) on the Yeongsan River in west Gwangju Bird News from Patrick Blake A sudden change in the weather cancelled my initial plans, but I still managed to get out and make the most of the Big Day 2015 fundraiser in Gwangju. Relying solely on public transportation, and … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[556],"class_list":["post-13997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-gwangju"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13997","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=13997"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14014,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13997\/revisions\/14014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– White’s Thrush<\/strong> (1) at the Gwangju Lake Eco-Park<\/p>\n![\"IMG_6801-L\"](\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_6801-L-e1420280057617.jpg\")
<\/a> White’s Thrush<\/strong> Zoothera aurea<\/em> \u00a9 Patrick Blake<\/p>\n
\n– Naumann’s Thrush<\/strong> (1) at Gwangju Lake Eco-Park
\n– Rustic Bunting<\/strong> (10+) at Gwangju Lake Eco-Park<\/p>\n<\/a> Rustic Bunting<\/strong> Emberiza rustica<\/em> \u00a9 Patrick Blake<\/p>\n<\/a> Habitat at Gwangjuho Lake Eco-Park \u00a9 Patrick Blake<\/p>\n
\n– Eurasian Moorhen<\/strong> (2) on the Yeongsan River
\n– Japanese Quail<\/strong> (2) in the grasses near the Yeongsan River
\n– five species of buntings were found along the Yeongsan River, the most numerous being Chestnut-eared Bunting<\/strong> (13); other species were Rustic Bunting<\/strong> (1), Yellow-throated Bunting<\/strong> (6), Black-faced Bunting<\/strong> (6 – including one personata<\/em> individual), and Pallas’s Reed Bunting<\/strong> (7)<\/p>\n<\/a> Chestnut-eared Bunting<\/strong> Emberiza fucata<\/em> \u00a9 Patrick Blake<\/p>\n<\/a> Black-faced Bunting<\/strong> Emberiza spodocephala<\/em> \u00a9 Patrick Blake<\/p>\n<\/a> Pallas’s Reed Bunting<\/strong> Emberiza pallasi<\/em> \u00a9 Patrick Blake<\/p>\n<\/a> Bunting habitat at the Yeongsan River \u00a9 Patrick Blake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"