{"id":18641,"date":"2016-11-22T18:24:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T09:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=18641"},"modified":"2016-11-22T18:50:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T09:50:44","slug":"goseong-marine-bird-survey-november-17-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=18641","title":{"rendered":"Goseong Marine Bird Survey, November 17-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bird News from Nial Moores and Choi Hyunah<\/p>\n

Bird survey was again conducted between Daejin and Geojin as part of research on biodiversity conservation close to the inner border region of Goseong County from November 17th<\/sup> to 19th.<\/p>\n

\"rs-dawnatdaejin1113\"Dawn in the East Sea, as seen from the excellent January Pension, Daejin \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/p>\n

This is the eleventh such joint Birds Korea-Hanns Seidel Foundation<\/a> (Korea) survey conducted since June 2015. \u00a0As in all previous surveys, bird counting and interpretation of counts was conducted by NM (Birds Korea), with the boat\u2019s course plotted by Dr Choi Hyunah (Hanns Seidel Foundation Korea), and the boat skippered by Captain Choi Yong-U.<\/p>\n

Almost 17,000 individuals of 24 \u201cMarine-preferential species\u201d as listed in Birds Korea\u2019s Status of Birds 2014<\/em> report were recorded on or over the sea during the present survey.\u00a0 The most abundant were Ancient Murrelet<\/strong> (10,457) and Black-legged Kittiwake <\/strong>(2,570), with other wintery species of note including twelve Harlequin Duck<\/strong>, 54 (Asiatic<\/strong> or Stejneger\u2019s) White-winged<\/strong> Scoter<\/strong> but only seven American Scoter <\/strong>(this latter species especially appears to be declining extremely rapidly in the ROK), 420 Great Crested<\/strong> and eight Red-necked Grebes<\/strong>, a single Glaucous-winged<\/strong> and 12 Glaucous Gulls<\/strong>, a single Spectacled Guillemot<\/strong> and at least 129 Rhinoceros Auklet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"rs-greatcrestedgrebe-1124\"Great Crested Grebe<\/strong>\u00a0Podiceps cristatus<\/i>\u00a0\u00a9 Nial Moores. Surprisingly, several birds were paired up and in active display on the sea.<\/p>\n

\"rs-americanscoters_1213\"American Scoter<\/strong> Melanitta americana <\/i>\u00a9 Nial Moores<\/p>\n

\"rs-stegnegersscoters-1160\"Stejneger’s<\/strong> or Asiatic White-winged Scoter<\/strong> Melanitta (deglandi)<\/i> stejnegeri <\/em>\u00a9 Nial Moores<\/p>\n

There were few other species of note present, with e.g. only 2-3 Long-tailed Rosefinch<\/strong> and Siberian Accentor<\/strong> logged, and 104 Greater Scaup<\/strong> and five Smew <\/strong>noted on Hwajin Po (where there is yet more construction ongoing \u2013 this time in the southern reedbed).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bird News from Nial Moores and Choi Hyunah Bird survey was again conducted between Daejin and Geojin as part of research on biodiversity conservation close to the inner border region of Goseong County from November 17th to 19th. Dawn in … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":18630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[866,843,867],"class_list":["post-18641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-goseong-county","tag-hanns-seidel-foundation","tag-marine-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18641","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=18641"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18646,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18641\/revisions\/18646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}