{"id":23123,"date":"2020-03-29T08:02:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T23:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=23123"},"modified":"2020-03-29T08:08:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T23:08:08","slug":"survey-in-siam-wetland-and-around-yudo-islet-in-han-river-estuary-march-24-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=23123","title":{"rendered":"Survey in Siam wetland and around Yudo islet in Han River Estuary, March 24, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bird News from Dr. Hyun-Ah Choi and Dr. Bernhard Seliger (both Hanns Seidel Foundation, Birds Korea lifetime members), Tobias Lauterjung (HSF Korea), and Dr. Han Donguk and the team of ECO Korea<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 3rd survey of the Siam wetland\/ Yudo\nislet area, an outcome of a 2019 project between Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Korea\nand Gimpo city, brought views of the returning summer birds of the area. In\nparticular, there were 13 Black-Faced Spoonbills, soon to be chased away by a\nyoung adult White-tailed Sea-Eagle, two Eurasian Spoonbills, and the first Stejneger’s\nStonechat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geese, however, have largely left, with\nonly around 90 Tundra Bean Geese, among them a group of 45 migrants flying high\nand fast to the North, and 120 Greater White-Fronted Geese left. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for raptors, there were still three\nWhite-tailed Sea Eagles in the Han river area, plus Eastern buzzard, Eurasian\nSparrowhawk, two Hen Harriers, and Common Kestrel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other observations: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Around 800 Great cormorants\nwere counted on Yudo islet, in full breeding activity, with a lot coming and\ngoing; additionally, there were around 35 Grey herons seen in the place, with\ndozens more in the adjacent fields and waterways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

– On the sandbank West\nof Yudo, a group of seven Ruddy Shelducks roosted, as well as a single Carrion\nCrow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– On several sandbanks\nin the river, there were still around 5000 gulls, mostly Black-tailed gull,\nseen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

– On the flooded rice paddies (munon<\/em>, Puddled Paddy) the number and variety of ducks increased, among them Mallards, Eastern Spotbilled Ducks, Northern Shoveler, Eurasian Wigeon, Tufted ducks, Eurasian Teal and Common Pochard, Mandarin ducks and Gadwalls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

#Yudo<\/a> #<\/a>Han River Estuary #\uc720\ub3c4<\/a> #\ud55c\uac15\ud558\uad6c<\/a> #\ud55c\uc2a4\uc790\uc774\ub378\uc7ac\ub2e8\uc7ac\ub2e8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Black-faced Spoonbill Platalea minor at Yudo island \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Soon a White-tailed Sea Eagle Halieeatus albicilla<\/em> came and chased the Black-faced Spoonbills away\u2026\u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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At the coastline west of Yudo, two Eurasian Spoonbills Platalea leucorodia<\/em> \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In several places pairs of Mandarin Ducks Aix galericulata<\/em> were seen, probably breeding in the Riparian forests\u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A seasonal first – Stejneger’s Stonechat Saxicola stejnegeri <\/em>at Siam wetland\u00a9 Bernhard Seliger <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bird News from Dr. Hyun-Ah Choi and Dr. Bernhard Seliger (both Hanns Seidel Foundation, Birds Korea lifetime members), Tobias Lauterjung (HSF Korea), and Dr. Han Donguk and the team of ECO Korea The 3rd survey of the Siam wetland\/ Yudo … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":23124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1020,1022,1019,1021,1023],"class_list":["post-23123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-han-river-estuary","tag-yudo","tag-1019","tag-1021","tag-1023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23123","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=23123"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23135,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23123\/revisions\/23135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}