{"id":20257,"date":"2018-01-17T19:39:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T10:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=20257"},"modified":"2018-01-18T10:39:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T01:39:46","slug":"january-12-national-arboretum-and-nearby-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=20257","title":{"rendered":"January 12, National Arboretum and nearby area"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bird News from Nial Moores with Mike Danzenbaker, Lee Hung and Angus Wilson<\/p>\n

In continuing very cold conditions, with a dawn low of -18C and a high of -8C, most of the day was spent at the National Arboretum east of Seoul, where winter highlights included at least four Solitary Snipe<\/strong> (two of which had heavily-frosted upperparts…), and excellent views of several of 10-15 Pallas’s Rosefinch<\/strong>, 15-20 Eurasian Bullfinch<\/strong> (including one possible male cineracea<\/em>), c.3 Red Crossbill<\/strong> heard, and a good range of resident forest species. These included 1-2 Black Woodpecker<\/strong> heard; and good views of several White-backed<\/strong> and Grey-headed Woodpeckers<\/strong> and what appeared to be a particularly pale Marsh Tit<\/strong> (due to wear or light conditions?).<\/p>\n

The only low point came from seeing the behaviour of several over-excited photographers, none of which seemed to appreciate – or even care – that birds can be disturbed by shouting or by being approached too closely. It is clear that ever-greater care is needed when posting locations of “good birds” if excessive disturbance is to be avoided – especially following the death of last winter’s Great Bustard, no doubt caused at least in part by excessive flushing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Our otherwise excellent day ended watching an Eurasian Eagle-Owl<\/strong> at roost at a regular site for the species – a location which we all agreed needs to be kept off ebird and other information-sharing sites to avoid unneccessary disturbance to the bird(s).<\/p>\n

\"rs-frostedsolitaries05348\"Solitary Snipe<\/strong> Gallinago solitaria<\/em> \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/p>\n

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\"rs-pallassrosefinch05557\"Adult male Pallas’s Rosefinch<\/strong> Carpodacus roseus<\/em> \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/p>\n

\"rs-bullfinch-05374\"Male Eurasian Bullfinch<\/strong> Pyrrhula pyrrhula rosacea<\/em> \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/p>\n

\"rs-marshtit-jan201805624\"Marsh Tit<\/strong> Poecile palustris hellmayri\u00a0<\/em> \u00a9 Nial Moores. Note the pale mark on the upper mandible, typical of this species in both Western Europe and at least parts of East Asia (e.g. see this post from Shanghai<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bird News from Nial Moores with Mike Danzenbaker, Lee Hung and Angus Wilson In continuing very cold conditions, with a dawn low of -18C and a high of -8C, most of the day was spent at the National Arboretum east … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":20269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[231],"class_list":["post-20257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-national-arboretum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20257","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=20257"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20284,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20257\/revisions\/20284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}