{"id":16634,"date":"2015-09-10T20:29:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T11:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=16634"},"modified":"2015-09-10T22:40:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T13:40:39","slug":"oriental-stork-in-ulsan-september-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=16634","title":{"rendered":"Oriental Stork in Ulsan, September 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bird News by Johan Kok<\/strong><\/p>\n

At 22:22 on Tuesday 8 September 2015 I received text messages indicating that a single Oriental Stork<\/b> had been seen in the Taehwa river in Ulsan on the 7th<\/sup> of September by Adrian Boyle.  It\u2019s not every day that such a rare bird turns up near your house.  Armed with the details of the sighting on the 7th<\/sup> I headed out straight after work today (9 September) to see if I could relocate the bird.<\/p>\n

The directions were good and fortunately the bird was still there.  It was indeed an Oriental Stork.  Initial sightings were very distant and against the setting sun.  After I moved to get a little closer and position the sun behind me I managed to get some great views, though still fairly distant.  I took a number of photos with a DSLR and high quality 400mm zoom lens.  After zooming in on the photos I noticed that the bird was color banded.  It was not possible to see the bands very well with only binoculars since the bird was moving most of the time.<\/p>\n

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From the blown up (heavily cropped) photos below it looks like the bands are: Right Leg \u2013 Black over Blue<\/strong>; Left Leg \u2013 Blue over Green<\/strong>.  Hopefully the bands will give us some information about the origin and movement of the bird.  What a fantastic sighting! Thanks to Adrian Boyle!<\/p>\n

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Oriental stork<\/strong> Ciconia boyciana <\/em>by Johan Kok<\/p>\n

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