{"id":23271,"date":"2020-05-13T18:38:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T09:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=23271"},"modified":"2020-05-13T18:38:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T09:38:31","slug":"east-jeju-may-5th-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=23271","title":{"rendered":"East Jeju, May 5th-8th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bird News from Nial Moores, with Kim Kimi & Kim Yeiweon (Bijarim Ro) and members of Seongsan People who Care for the Environment group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outstanding highlights included single Japanese Night Heron<\/strong>, Steppe Eagle<\/strong> and Caspian Tern<\/strong>, all found during formal survey of the biodiverse hotspot of the Bijarim Ro, still threatened by road-widening, and rapid assessments of five areas in Seongsan, SE Jeju \u2013 currently also all  threatened by the proposed construction of the massive second Jeju airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 6th<\/sup> and 7th<\/sup>, 52 bird species were found along the Bijarim Ro, including a single briefly-booming Japanese Night Heron<\/strong>; quelpartensis<\/em> White-backed Woodpecker<\/strong>; seven Eurasian Whimbrel<\/strong> and at least two Pin-tailed Snipe<\/strong>; no less than six species of flycatcher (including one still-unidentified Narcissus-type<\/strong>); single singing Sakhalin Leaf<\/strong> Warbler<\/strong>; and a spectacular passing squadron of six Needle-tailed Swift<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jeju-endemic subspecies of White-backed Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucotos quelpartensis<\/em> \uc81c\uc8fc\ud070\uc624\uc0c9\ub531\ub2e4\uad6c\ub9ac \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eurasian Whimbrel <\/strong>Numenius phaeopus variegatus<\/em> \uc911\ubd80\ub9ac\ub3c4\uc694 \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grey-streaked Flycatcher <\/strong>Muscicapa griseisticta<\/em> \uc81c\ube44\ub531\uc0c8 \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Yellow-rumped Flycatcher<\/strong> Ficedula zanthopygia<\/em> \ud770\ub208\uc379\ud669\uae08\uc0c8 \u00a9 Nial Moores: last year too, there were at least two territories along one small stretch of stream here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Unidentified Narcissus-type Flycatcher\/ \ud669\uae08\uc0c8 type\u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

During the afternoon of the 7th<\/sup> at the coast, distant but still decent views of the long-staying Steppe Eagle<\/strong> over Hado, and rather better views of a loafing Caspian Tern<\/strong> \u2013 still a rare species in the ROK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Caspian Tern<\/strong> Hydroprogne caspia<\/em> \ubd89\uc740\ubd80\ub9ac\ud070\uc81c\ube44\uac08\ub9e4\uae30\u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On the 8th<\/sup>, an interesting mix of habitats was visited, with the day started by three Northern Boobooks<\/strong> and several singing White\u2019s Thrushes<\/strong>; followed by prolonged looks at a pair of Peregrine Falcon<\/strong>, several Blue Rock Thrush<\/strong>, a glimpsed Rufous-tailed Robin<\/strong> and many hundreds of Streaked Shearwater<\/strong> passing close to shore, with the biggest miss three apparently rapidly-diving alcids (Crested Murrelets<\/em>?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blue Rock Thrush<\/strong> Monticola solitarius philippensis<\/em> \ubc14\ub2e4\uc9c1\ubc15\uad6c\ub9ac \u00a9 Nial Moores: a stunning and sometimes surprisingly numerous species in suitable habitat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Members of the local group help count passing Streaked Shearwaters \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We finished the rapid assessments with a quick survey of woodland and a small freshwater wetland which produced another White-backed Woodpecker <\/strong>and the personal first Arctic Warbler<\/strong> of the spring (a typical first date for this always late arriving species: often confused with Eastern Crowned<\/em> or Pale Legged Leafs<\/em>) in addition to good views of several full breeding-plumaged Eastern Cattle Egret<\/strong>…beautiful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eastern Cattle Egret<\/strong> Bubulcus coromandus<\/em> \ud669\ub85c \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bird News from Nial Moores, with Kim Kimi & Kim Yeiweon (Bijarim Ro) and members of Seongsan People who Care for the Environment group. Outstanding highlights included single Japanese Night Heron, Steppe Eagle and Caspian Tern, all found during formal … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":23276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1003,1016,1024],"class_list":["post-23271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-bijarim-ro","tag-jeju-second-airport","tag-seongsan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23271","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=23271"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23287,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23271\/revisions\/23287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}