{"id":20494,"date":"2018-02-09T09:22:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T00:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=20494"},"modified":"2018-02-09T09:52:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T00:52:30","slug":"birds-in-goseong-february-5-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=20494","title":{"rendered":"Birds in Goseong, February 5-6"},"content":{"rendered":"

In icy conditions, a rapid survey was carried out at the Goseong coastline in Daejin harbor and lighthouse as well as Hwajinpo lagoon and coastal area, plus the small streams near Ganseong (South river \u2013 Namcheon; North river \u2013 Bukcheon, Chasan river). Ducks found were mostly Mallards<\/strong> and Eastern Spot-billed Ducks<\/strong> (in groups between 50 and 300). At the seaside, there were additionally a few Common Goldeneyes<\/strong> and Harlequin Ducks<\/strong> (25 in Daejin port), Red-breasted Mergansers, Great Crested Grebes<\/strong> as well as one single Smew<\/strong> in Namcheon. The highlight were great views of groups of American Scoters<\/strong> at Daejin lighthouse as well as the Hwajinpo coastline. Additionally, four White-tailed Eagles<\/strong> were seen, two of them on the completely frozen Hwajinpo lagoon, and one each at Daejin lighthouse and Chasan stream. In the morning of the 6th, a one-hour count (from 7.30 to 8.30) from the excellent January Pension in Daejin brought more than 1100 Loon sp.<\/strong> and more than 100 Ancient Murrelets<\/strong> into view. Notably absent were cormorants and with maybe 3000 gulls along the whole stretch of coast scanned there were much fewer than in the milder weather conditions of proceeding years.
\nThe \u201ctaming\u201d of Hwajinpo wetland meanwhile is progressing. While definitely birds are an attraction to the area, as a large signpost indicates, work to \u201cbeautify\u201d the former remaining wetland areas around the lagoons into parks with generous walk-ways goes on.<\/p>\n

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White-tailed Sea Eagles<\/strong> Haliaeetus albicilla <\/em>and Large-billed crows<\/strong> Corvus macrorhynchus<\/em> at the frozen Hwajinpo lagoon \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/p>\n

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American Scoter<\/strong> Melanitta americana<\/em> \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/p>\n

\"3\u00a0Signpost on migratory birds in Hwajinpo \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 Map of the \u201cWetland improvement\u201d plan in Hwajinpo \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger \u2013 basically, the remaining \u201cwild\u201d wetland areas around the lagoon lake are transformed into small, artificial ponds with walkways in between\"5<\/p>\n

Harlequin duck<\/strong> Histrionicus histrionicus<\/em> and Slaty-backed Gull<\/strong> Larus schistisagus<\/em> \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/p>\n

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In icy conditions, a rapid survey was carried out at the Goseong coastline in Daejin harbor and lighthouse as well as Hwajinpo lagoon and coastal area, plus the small streams near Ganseong (South river \u2013 Namcheon; North river \u2013 Bukcheon, … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":20496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20494","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\/20494","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20502,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20494\/revisions\/20502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}