{"id":18122,"date":"2016-05-29T16:28:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T07:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=18122"},"modified":"2016-05-29T16:28:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T07:28:13","slug":"hwaseong-may-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=18122","title":{"rendered":"Hwaseong, May 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bird News from Robin Newlin with Jo Seong Sik and Im Kwan Wang<\/p>\n<p>Remarkable news of a <strong>Greater Flamingo<\/strong> being discovered by Mr. Lim Bang-Hyun on May 21st had me and Mr. Jo out and looking on the 23rd. After some initial disappointment at the original sighting point, we found the bird at an extreme distance, then eventually drove to a closer vantage point. The young bird (2nd calendar year?) seemed congruously at home, associating loosely with several <strong>Falcated Ducks<\/strong>, a few <strong>Ruddy Shelducks<\/strong>, a few more <strong>Common Shelducks<\/strong>, various egrets (including 2 <strong>Chinese Egrets<\/strong>) and (wonderful to have them in the same frame) 9 <strong>Black-faced Spoonbills<\/strong>. The flamingo rested, broomed the shallows for food, stretched legs, neck and wings, and even (apparently) called a few times.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18124 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bk-greater-flamingo-AP9F2870-1-1024x704.jpg\" alt=\"bk greater flamingo AP9F2870\" width=\"690\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bk-greater-flamingo-AP9F2870-1-1024x704.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bk-greater-flamingo-AP9F2870-1-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bk-greater-flamingo-AP9F2870-1-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bk-greater-flamingo-AP9F2870-1-768x528.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18125 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bk-flamingo-AP9F2853-1024x729.jpg\" alt=\"bk flamingo AP9F2853\" width=\"690\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bk-flamingo-AP9F2853-1024x729.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bk-flamingo-AP9F2853-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bk-flamingo-AP9F2853-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bk-flamingo-AP9F2853-768x547.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus roseus \u00a9Robin Newlin<\/p>\n<p>In the area we also found several <strong>Dollarbirds<\/strong>, 2 <strong>Eurasian<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Kestrels<\/strong>, and 2 <strong>Black-winged Stilts<\/strong>. Singing invisibly: <strong>Oriental Reed Warblers, Golden Orioles<\/strong>, and <strong>India<\/strong>n and <strong>Eurasian Cuckoos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-18128\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bk-bw-stilt-AP9F2907-2-1024x780.jpg\" alt=\"bk bw stilt AP9F2907\" width=\"690\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bk-bw-stilt-AP9F2907-2-1024x780.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bk-bw-stilt-AP9F2907-2-150x114.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bk-bw-stilt-AP9F2907-2-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/bk-bw-stilt-AP9F2907-2-768x585.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Black-winged Stilt <em>Himantopus himantopus<\/em> \u00a9Robin Newlin<\/p>\n<p>A return visit (!) that evening with Mr. Im found the flamingo still present. Also, in the distance, a small mixed flock of <strong>Dunlin, Far-Eastern Oystercatcher, Grey Plover<\/strong> and <strong>Great Knot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird News from Robin Newlin with Jo Seong Sik and Im Kwan Wang Remarkable news of a Greater Flamingo being discovered by Mr. Lim Bang-Hyun on May 21st had me and Mr. Jo out and looking on the 23rd. After &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=18122\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":18125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18122","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\/18122","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18129,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18122\/revisions\/18129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}