{"id":16335,"date":"2015-07-20T19:05:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T10:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=16335"},"modified":"2015-07-20T19:05:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T10:05:39","slug":"july-18-hadong-and-suncheon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=16335","title":{"rendered":"July 18, Hadong and Suncheon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bird News from Jason Loghry with Ha Jung Moon, Matt Poll, and Nial Moores<\/p>\n

As many birders in Korea already know, there has been only one record of Bar-headed Goose<\/strong>\u00a0in Korea, which was seen for a couple of weeks<\/a> in March of 2003. Therefore after hearing about a recent\u00a0sighting of the species at a not-so-distant location, the opportunity to finally see one was very hard to pass up.\u00a0There are many questions as to why this particular bird is here now; especially at this time of year: Is it a vagrant because of something natural such as weather or inexperience? If so, has it been in the area longer than when first reported, having just been overlooked? Is it an escapee? Or is it one of the artificially bred birds discussed in this article<\/a>? We may never know.<\/p>\n

Regardless of why it’s here, it is a stunning bird with very attractive plumage patterns and it was another good reason to meet up with fellow Birds Koreans for a nice day of birding. Highlights of the afternoon also include wonderful views of Yellow Bittern<\/strong>, both in flight and perched in reeds, two Eurasian Hobby;\u00a0<\/strong>two Mongolian Gulls<\/strong> and three Saunders’s Gulls<\/strong> on the tidal flat at Suncheon as well as about 1000 Terek Sandpiper<\/strong>. And to top it off, a unanimous vote from the group for ‘bird of the day’ goes to another summer superstar,\u00a0Greater Painted-snipe<\/strong>, with views of both a male and female found at a seemingly very healthy rice field.<\/p>\n

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Bar-headed Goose<\/strong> Anser indicus<\/em>\u00a0\u00a9 Jason Loghry<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Bar-headed Goose<\/strong> Anser indicus<\/em>\u00a0\u00a9 Jason Loghry<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Yellow Bittern<\/strong>\u00a0Ixobrychus sinensis\u00a0<\/em>\u00a9 Nial Moores<\/p>\n

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\u00a0male and nearly hidden female Greater Painted-snipe<\/strong> Rostratula benghalensis<\/em>\u00a0\u00a9 Nial Moores<\/p>\n

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female and nearly hidden male Greater Painted-snipe<\/strong> Rostratula benghalensis<\/em>\u00a0\u00a9 Nial Moores<\/p>\n

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