{"id":17817,"date":"2016-03-18T14:49:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T05:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=17817"},"modified":"2017-10-29T17:33:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T08:33:50","slug":"coastal-goseong-county-gangwon-march-15th-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=17817","title":{"rendered":"Coastal Goseong County, Gangwon, March 15th-17th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bird News from Nial Moores (with Bernhard Seliger and Choi Hyun-Ah)<\/u><\/p>\n

From March 15th<\/sup>-17th another round of marine bird surveys was conducted off from Daejin-Geojin (Gangwon Province) as part of research on biodiversity conservation close to the inner border region. Survey conditions were excellent throughout with light winds; seas with wave heights of <1m; and high visibility.<\/p>\n

This was the seventh survey of this area since June 2014 conducted as part of a collaborative project between Birds Korea and the Hanns Seidel Foundation (Korea)<\/a>. As before, count effort by NM was comprised of a boat-based survey (on 15th<\/sup>, with BS and CHA); counts of gulls and other marine birds off and north of the Daejin lighthouse (with BS, between 16:30 and 17:30 on 15th<\/sup>); counts of birds along the coast from the wonderful January Pension (just south of Daejin harbor) south to the southeast of Geojin headland (from 09:30 to 17:30 on 16th<\/sup>); and counts of birds moving along the coast for two hours starting 15 minutes before sunrise from a January Pension balcony (06:32 at Gangneung on the 17th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

\"RS-BS_Gangwoncoat-7433\"<\/a>The Gangwon Coast, looking north towards the DMZ \u00a9<\/strong> Bernhard Seliger<\/p>\n

About 70 species were recorded in total, with a mix of residents (including 3+ Red-billed Starling<\/strong>), lingering winter specials (including single White-tailed Eagle<\/strong>, Cinereous Vulture<\/strong> and Siberian Accentor<\/strong>) and early-spring migrants, with a couple of Mandarin Duck<\/strong> on the sea, flocks of Greater White-fronted Geese<\/strong> totalling 500-1,000 moving north over the sea and land, and several waves of Rook<\/strong> over-land, with 160+ seen going north on the 15th<\/sup> and 900+ on the 16th<\/sup>. There were even a couple of real spring arrivals in the form of a Common Sandpiper<\/strong> and a singing leucopsis<\/em> White Wagtail <\/strong>(both on the 17th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

(All of the images that were taken by NM taken through superb Swarovski optics – including one digibinned from the boat…)<\/p>\n

\"RS-nm_Longtailedrosefinch00541\"<\/a>Long-tailed Rosefinch<\/strong>\u00a0Carpodacus sibiricus<\/em> \u00a9<\/strong> Nial Moores<\/p>\n

A minimum 6,000 marine-preferential birds of 26 species were recorded during the survey, with the majority Pelagic Cormorants<\/strong> and gulls<\/strong> and loons of three species, through including 800+ Ancient Murrelet<\/strong>, probably 9 Rhinoceros Auklet<\/strong>, at least four Brunnich\u2019s<\/strong> (in one group) and one Common Murre<\/strong> (with another four murres seen which were probably Brunnich\u2019s<\/strong> but were too far to identify with confidence); and 59 American Scoter <\/strong>(in much reduced numbers this winter compared with previous years).<\/p>\n

\"RS-bs-Brunnich's<\/a>Four Brunnich’s Murre<\/strong> Uria lomvia<\/em> \u00a9<\/strong> Bernhard Seliger<\/p>\n

\"RS-nm-digibinned_brunnichsDSC00393\"<\/a>Brunnich’s Murre<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a9 <\/strong>Nial Moores (digibinned from the boat!)<\/p>\n

\"RS-BS-SpecGillie-7516\"<\/a>Spectacled Guillemot<\/strong> Cepphus carbo<\/em> \u00a9<\/strong> Bernhard Seliger<\/p>\n

\"Rs-nm_partofamericanscoterflocktDSC00631\"\"RS-nm-FW_Amerscoter-DSC00679\"<\/a>American Scoter<\/strong> Melanitta americana<\/em> \u00a9<\/strong> Nial Moores (showing some detail of bill of First-winter male)<\/p>\n

Best of all, however, was a First-winter Relict Gull<\/strong> Ichthyaetus relictus<\/em> on the beach by the Daejin Lighthouse on the 15th<\/sup> (seen and photographed at close quarters, through those extremely annoying green railings!, by NM and BS). This is presumably the first record of this globally Vulnerable species in Goseong County.<\/p>\n

\"RS-nm-RelictGull00436\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"RS-nm-Relict-DSC00429\"<\/a>Relict Gull<\/strong>\u00a0Ichthyaetus relictus<\/em> \u00a9<\/strong> Nial Moores<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bird News from Nial Moores (with Bernhard Seliger and Choi Hyun-Ah) From March 15th-17th another round of marine bird surveys was conducted off from Daejin-Geojin (Gangwon Province) as part of research on biodiversity conservation close to the inner border region. … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":17829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[866,532],"class_list":["post-17817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-goseong-county","tag-relict-gull"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17817","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=17817"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17844,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17817\/revisions\/17844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}