{"id":22586,"date":"2019-10-21T22:02:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T13:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=22586"},"modified":"2019-10-21T22:05:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T13:05:24","slug":"baekryeong-island-october-18th-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=22586","title":{"rendered":"Baekryeong Island, October 18th-21st"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bird News from Nial Moores<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fairly steady weather, fairly slow birding for Baekryeong, with only 102 species logged in the first four days.  Highlights so far have included two Swinhoe\u2019s White-eyes<\/strong> (at least on 19th<\/sup>), one Greater Spotted Eagle<\/strong>, 1-2 Chinese Nuthatch<\/strong>, two Chinese Grey Shrike<\/strong>, an early Japanese Waxwing<\/strong> (on 18th<\/sup>) and an extremely late Forest Wagtail<\/strong> (on 20th<\/sup>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although some regular species (like Yellow-browed Warbler<\/strong>\nand Rustic Bunting<\/strong>) have been present in more or less expected numbers, perhaps\ndue in part to the weather usually abundant species like Olive-backed Pipit<\/strong>\nand Black-faced Bunting<\/strong> have proven to be remarkably scarce so far, and\ncounts of formerly numerous species like Barn Swallow<\/strong> (day max. 20), Stejneger\u2019s\nStonechat<\/strong> (day max. of 3) and White Wagtail<\/strong> (day max. only 25) have\nalso been much lower than would have been expected even ten years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yellow-browed Warbler <\/strong>Phylloscopus inornatus<\/em> \u00a9 Nial Moores <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Globally Vulnerable Rustic Bunting<\/strong> Emberiza rustica<\/em> \u00a9 Nial Moores <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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White Wagtails <\/strong>Motacilla alba ocularis<\/em> \u00a9 Nial Moores <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

On the 17th<\/sup>, the afternoon ferry from Incheon to Baekryeong produced two Eurasian Coot<\/strong>, 30 Streaked Shearwater<\/strong>, two Swinhoe\u2019s Storm Petrel<\/strong>, eight Pomarine Jaeger<\/strong>, a single Ancient Murrelet<\/strong>, 1,895 Black-legged Kittiwake<\/strong> and rarest in the global context, 19 Finless Porpoise<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the 18th<\/sup>, 79 species were logged in a small part of the island, and the best \u201cbird that got away\u201d was a possible Black Woodpigeon<\/em>. Confirmed notable records for the day included single Chinese Egret<\/strong>, Greater Spotted Eagle<\/strong>, Chinese Grey Shrike<\/strong>, Bluethroat<\/strong> and Japanese Waxwing<\/strong> (latter heard only, close but out of view), with most numerous species (this day and in the days following) Brambling <\/strong>(2,000), Eastern Great Tit<\/strong> (450+), Coal Tit<\/strong> (350+), Eurasian Siskin<\/strong> (250), Light-vented Bulbul<\/strong> (105) and Hawfinch<\/strong> (100).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chinese Grey Shrike<\/strong> Lanius sphenocercus <\/em>\u00a9 Nial Moores <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Brambling<\/strong> Fringilla montifringilla <\/em> \u00a9 Nial Moores <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On the 19th<\/sup>, two Swinhoe\u2019s White-eye<\/strong> were seen well (ID requires good views, with these birds as expected showing all the relevant features listed in the Birds Korea ID note<\/a>), and a Chinese Nuthatch<\/strong> was seen and heard moving west with a flock of tits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Swinhoe’s White-eye<\/strong> Zosterops simplex<\/em> \u00a9 Nial Moores <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

On the 20th<\/sup>, a Water Rail<\/strong> sp was heard\nbriefly, and the first three American Scoter<\/strong> of the winter were found\nclose to shore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 21st<\/sup> highlights included up to five Japanese Grosbeak<\/strong>, a second Chinese Grey Shrike<\/strong> and a Little Owl <\/strong>heard in the evening. Notably. a nesting site for Temminck\u2019s Cormorant<\/strong> and Mongolian Gull<\/strong> still held small numbers of birds of the year of both species, along with a few adults. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Temminck’s Cormorant<\/strong> Phalacrocorax capillatus<\/em> \u00a9 Nial Moores <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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1CY Mongolian Gull<\/strong> Larus mongolicus<\/em> \u00a9 Nial Moores: yes, apparently southern-born gulls of the same species can progress more quickly than northern-born ones – but does it really make sense to anyone that southern born ones would be so far advanced, have different internal patterning on some plumage tracts, sound different and also exploit a different ecological niche?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bird News from Nial Moores In fairly steady weather, fairly slow birding for Baekryeong, with only 102 species logged in the first four days.  Highlights so far have included two Swinhoe\u2019s White-eyes (at least on 19th), one Greater Spotted Eagle, … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":22575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[600],"class_list":["post-22586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-baekryeong-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22586","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=22586"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22593,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22586\/revisions\/22593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}