{"id":16643,"date":"2015-09-12T09:59:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T00:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=16643"},"modified":"2015-09-12T09:59:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T00:59:02","slug":"winter-bird-tours-in-the-rok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=16643","title":{"rendered":"Winter Bird Tours in the ROK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to see <strong>Scaly-sided Mergansers<\/strong> and <strong>Baikal Teal<\/strong>?\u00a0 <strong>Steller&#8217;s Sea Eagle<\/strong> and <strong>Red-crowned Crane<\/strong>?\u00a0<strong> Siberian<\/strong> and <strong>White-naped Crane<\/strong>? <strong>Siberian Accentor<\/strong> and <strong>Pallas&#8217;s Rosefinch<\/strong>? To look through flocks of <strong>Slaty-backed<\/strong> and <strong>Vega Gulls<\/strong> to pick out <strong>Mongolian<\/strong> and <strong>Glaucous-winged Gulls<\/strong>? To have close encounters with <strong>Ancient Murrelets<\/strong> and <strong>Spectacled Guillemots<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>In short, do you want to enjoy and experience some of the most exciting birding that East Asia has to offer this winter?<\/p>\n<p>If so, how about joining the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zootherabirding.com\/page_3275572.html\"><strong>Zoothera Birding Tour<\/strong> to Korea<\/a> this January:<\/p>\n<p>(With part of the fee going direct to Birds Korea)<\/p>\n<p>Or contact &lt; Nial.Moores at birdskorea.org &gt;<\/p>\n<p><em>Fees from tours really DO help to support our conservation work<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A few species seen well during winter birding tours in early 2015&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/BirdsKorea_archive_Scaly-sided-Merganser.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[16643]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-16644 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/BirdsKorea_archive_Scaly-sided-Merganser-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"BirdsKorea_archive_Scaly-sided-Merganser\" width=\"690\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/BirdsKorea_archive_Scaly-sided-Merganser.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/BirdsKorea_archive_Scaly-sided-Merganser-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/BirdsKorea_archive_Scaly-sided-Merganser-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><strong>Scaly-sided Merganser<\/strong> \u00a9 Robin Newlin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/siberiancrane_rs1.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[16643]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-14571 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/siberiancrane_rs1-1024x754.jpg\" alt=\"siberiancrane_rs1\" width=\"690\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/siberiancrane_rs1-1024x754.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/siberiancrane_rs1-150x110.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/siberiancrane_rs1-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/siberiancrane_rs1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><strong>Siberian Crane<\/strong> \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/redcrownedcrane_rs.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[16643]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-14573 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/redcrownedcrane_rs-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"redcrownedcrane_rs\" width=\"690\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/redcrownedcrane_rs-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/redcrownedcrane_rs-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/redcrownedcrane_rs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/redcrownedcrane_rs.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><strong>Red-crowned Crane<\/strong> \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt-rsforfront.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[16643]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-14798 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt-rsforfront-1024x733.jpg\" alt=\"bt-rsforfront\" width=\"690\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt-rsforfront-1024x733.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt-rsforfront-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt-rsforfront-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bt-rsforfront.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/flock-BaikalTeal2_rs.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[16643]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-14569 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/flock-BaikalTeal2_rs-1024x639.jpg\" alt=\"flock-BaikalTeal2_rs\" width=\"690\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/flock-BaikalTeal2_rs-1024x639.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/flock-BaikalTeal2_rs-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/flock-BaikalTeal2_rs-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/flock-BaikalTeal2_rs-400x250.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/flock-BaikalTeal2_rs.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><strong>Baikal Teal<\/strong> \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hazelmar22-rs.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[16643]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-14794 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hazelmar22-rs-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"hazelmar22-rs\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hazelmar22-rs-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hazelmar22-rs-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hazelmar22-rs-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hazelmar22-rs.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><strong>Hazel Grouse<\/strong> \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Siberian-Accentor_NM-dark-1.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[16643]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-13774 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Siberian-Accentor_NM-dark-1.jpg\" alt=\"Siberian-Accentor_NM-dark-1\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Siberian-Accentor_NM-dark-1.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Siberian-Accentor_NM-dark-1-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Siberian-Accentor_NM-dark-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><strong>Siberian Accentor<\/strong> \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to see Scaly-sided Mergansers and Baikal Teal?\u00a0 Steller&#8217;s Sea Eagle and Red-crowned Crane?\u00a0 Siberian and White-naped Crane? Siberian Accentor and Pallas&#8217;s Rosefinch? To look through flocks of Slaty-backed and Vega Gulls to pick out Mongolian and Glaucous-winged &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=16643\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":16644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-generalinterest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16643","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16648,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16643\/revisions\/16648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}