{"id":21605,"date":"2019-03-05T20:14:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T11:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=21605"},"modified":"2019-03-05T20:14:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T11:14:38","slug":"bring-out-the-buntings-spring-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=21605","title":{"rendered":"Bring Out the Buntings: spring is coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bird News, Nakdong Estuary and Eco-parks, March 4th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An excellent half-day in the field in Busan in unseasonably warm spring sunshine, with twenty minutes at the Nakdong Estuary (where highlights were one First-winter Relict Gull<\/strong> still and a probable Far Eastern Curlew<\/strong> ‘scoped at long range), followed by six hours walking through a couple of the “eco-parks” upstream of the barrage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, most notable species included two Greater Spotted Eagle<\/strong> soaring up high together; and much lower down, two Common Starling<\/strong>, 20+ Dusky Thrush<\/strong> and lots of buntings, including 5+ Rustic <\/strong>(nonetheless, a dreadful year for them so far it seems), five Little<\/strong>, a half-dozen Common Reed<\/strong>, 50 or so Yellow-throated<\/strong> and at least 90+ Pallas’s Reed Buntings, <\/strong>including a single flock of 70, comprised mostly of males with emerging breeding plumage, many of which were feeding out together on a footpath: stunning! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of two Greater Spotted Eagle<\/strong> Clanga clanga<\/em> \u00a9<\/strong> Nial Moores <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pallas’s Reed Buntings<\/strong> Emberiza pallasi<\/em> \u00a9<\/strong> Nial Moores <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Little Bunting<\/strong> Emberiza pusilla<\/em> \u00a9<\/strong> Nial Moores <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Other highlights included a flock of about 30 Red-billed Starling<\/strong>, two groups of Light-vented Bulbul<\/strong> and good numbers still of regular over-winterers, including c. 1400 Taiga Bean <\/strong>and 90 Greater White-fronted Geese<\/strong> and 200 Whooper Swan<\/strong>, along with a good selection of ducks which included a handful of resplendent Falcated<\/strong> and Tufted Ducks<\/strong> – both tending to be rather commoner here in March than in mid-winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tufted Duck<\/strong> Aythya fuligula<\/em> \u00a9<\/strong> Nial Moores <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bird News, Nakdong Estuary and Eco-parks, March 4th An excellent half-day in the field in Busan in unseasonably warm spring sunshine, with twenty minutes at the Nakdong Estuary (where highlights were one First-winter Relict Gull still and a probable Far … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":21600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,10],"tags":[606,461],"class_list":["post-21605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-sightings","category-conservation","tag-nakdong","tag-pallass-reed-bunting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21605","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=21605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21610,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21605\/revisions\/21610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}