{"id":17467,"date":"2016-01-04T12:37:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T03:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=17467"},"modified":"2016-01-04T12:40:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T03:40:51","slug":"hwaseong-december-26-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=17467","title":{"rendered":"Hwaseong, December 26 (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bird News \/ Highlights from Shim Kyu-Sik<\/p>\n

Outstanding highlights at Hwaseong on December 26th were single Steppe Eagle<\/strong> \ucd08\uc6d0\uc218\ub9ac (perhaps scarcely annual in the ROK, and now classified globally as Endangered) and Horned Lark<\/strong>\u00a0\ud574\ubcc0\uc885\ub2e4\ub9ac (<10 national records).<\/p>\n

\"sks-steppe<\/a>Steppe Eagle<\/strong> Aquila nipalensis<\/em> \u00a9 Shim Kyu-Sik<\/p>\n

\"lark-sks_2000_7-1\"<\/a>“Mongolian Horned Lark<\/strong>” Eremophila alpestris brandti<\/em> \u00a9 Shim Kyu-Sik<\/p>\n

Although the lark image shows a weak yellowish wash on the head and fairly extensive brown on the breast sides,\u00a0 this pale and streaky-above individual still seems a best-match for subspecies brandti<\/em>, responsible for all but one of the previous records in the ROK \u00a0 The taxonomy of the Horned Lark group is complicated and interesting, and the expert\u00a0 team at the Birding Mongolia website suggest the popular English-language name of “Mongolian Horned Lark<\/a>” for this potential split from “Shore Lark” (mentioned, but not yet adopted by Gill & Donsker 2015). If the split is adopted, then a new Korean name for this species will also be required…<\/p>\n

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Bird News \/ Highlights from Shim Kyu-Sik Outstanding highlights at Hwaseong on December 26th were single Steppe Eagle \ucd08\uc6d0\uc218\ub9ac (perhaps scarcely annual in the ROK, and now classified globally as Endangered) and Horned Lark\u00a0\ud574\ubcc0\uc885\ub2e4\ub9ac (<10 national records). Steppe Eagle Aquila … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":17468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-sightings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467","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=17467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17471,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467\/revisions\/17471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}