{"id":14625,"date":"2015-03-09T10:14:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T01:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=14625"},"modified":"2015-03-09T20:22:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T11:22:35","slug":"welcome-shorebirds-songdo-7th-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=14625","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Shorebirds: Songdo, March 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bird news from Spike Millington<\/p>\n

As Birdlife Australia plans its annual Farewell Shorebirds celebration, Tomoko Ichikawa, Eugene Cheah and I decided to check out the mudflats around Songdo for early migrants. First up was Aam Do, the traditional site for Kentish Plovers<\/strong>, which, true to form, yielded 37 of these little waders, mostly hunkered down among the rocks on the mudflats, but occasionally running around and calling. A couple of ocularis<\/em> White Wagtails<\/strong> were with them. Moving on to Gojan mudflats on the rising tide, 160 Saunders’s Gull<\/strong>, mostly with their black hoods, rested on the shore, later to roost on the open water. The wintering Eurasian Curlews<\/strong> numbered about 250. Other shorebirds were 15 Eastern Oystercatchers<\/strong>, 20 Dunlin<\/strong> and 30 Grey Plover<\/strong>s. Among the latter was a sleeping Bar-tailed Godwit<\/strong>, the first of the year and a most welcome sight. About 500 Common Shelducks<\/strong> were off shore, with 250 Mallard<\/strong> and 100 Common Pochard<\/strong>. The real prize though, while scanning through the numerous Mongolian Gulls<\/strong> (with still quite a few Vega<\/strong>, Tamyr<\/strong> and Slaty-backed Gulls<\/strong>) was a spanking summer-plumaged adult Pallas’s Gull<\/strong>, the first I have seen in Korea. The Black-tailed Gulls<\/strong> are congregating at their favourite places, looking immaculate in breeding plumage and calling and displaying. Despite the cold, spring seems on the way.<\/p>\n

All photos by Eugene Cheah<\/p>\n

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Kentish Plover<\/strong>\u00a0Charadrius alexandrinus\u00a0<\/i>\u00a9 Eugene Cheah<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Pallas’s Gull<\/strong> with flock of Mongolian Gull<\/strong> \u00a9 Eugene Cheah<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Pallas’s Gull<\/strong> Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus\u00a0<\/i>\u00a9 Eugene Cheah<\/p>\n

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Pallas’s Gull<\/strong> towards the rear \u00a9 Eugene Cheah<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Bar-tailed Godwit<\/strong> with Grey Plover<\/strong> \u00a9 Eugene Cheah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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