A few of the more notable records:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Snow Goose<\/strong> Anser caerulescens<\/em> \ud770\uae30\ub7ec\uae30. An adult on 29th. One has been seen at this wetland in two or more previous winters apparently.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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Snow Goose<\/strong>, above in flight \u00a9 Jung Hanchul; below with Tundra Bean \ud070\uae30\ub7ec\uae30 <\/strong>and Greater White-fronted Goose<\/strong> \uc1e0\uae30\ub7ec\uae30 \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n - Tundra Bean Goose <\/strong>Anser serrirostris<\/em> \ud070\uae30\ub7ec\uae30. At least 27,500 counted.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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Above, Tundra Bean Goose<\/strong> in flight \u00a9 Jung Hanchul; and below ,with a lone Greater White-fronted Goose<\/strong> \uc1e0\uae30\ub7ec\uae30 \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n - Hybrid Aythya<\/em>. One male showing several Baer’s Pochard features including large head and bill, dark green head and (red-)brown breast, and stripey flanks, was seen on 28th. However, the bird also showed extensive grey in the upperparts, and almost entirely white flanks suggesting this was either a hybrid with some Baer’s influence (Baer’s x Greater Scaup???), or instead might have been the hybrid offspring between two or more other species altogether. A quick look at the excellent Bird hybrids website<\/a> did not find any obvious matches. Opinions, as always, warmly welcomed!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/rs2000-hybridcomposite-1024x666.jpg\")
Composite images of unidentified hybrid duck \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n - Ferruginous Duck<\/strong> Aythya nyroca<\/em> \uc801\uac08\uc0c9\ud770\uc8fd\uc9c0 . Although assessed as V1 in the ROK by Birds Korea (meaning 9 or fewer records each year) three males were seen on 28th, with a possible fourth seen too distantly to confirm.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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Ferruginous Ducks<\/strong> with Common Pochard<\/strong> \ud770\uc8fd\uc9c0 \u00a9 Nial Moores: one on far left, and two on the far right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n - Black-tailed Godwit<\/strong> Limosa limosa bohaii<\/em> \ud751\uaf2c\ub9ac\ub3c4\uc694. Three of the recently-described large and very long-billed bohaii<\/em> subspecies were seen on 28th. One of these had an oddly deformed bill. Although melanuroides<\/em> is by far the commoner subspecies in Korea, a second type of Black-tailed Godwit<\/strong> was added to the Birds Korea Checklist back in 2013 <\/a>(as nominate limosa<\/em> “Data Deficient”), because a small number of obviously larger, longer-billed less richly-coloured individuals, more closely resembling the nominate form than melanuroides<\/em>, were seen annually. Somewhat surprisingly, the presence of this taxon in Korea was omitted from the otherwise excellent paper published in Ibis<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/rs2000-makolidoyoDSC08223.jpg\")
Bohaii<\/em> subspecies of Black-tailed Godwit<\/strong>, including one with a decurved bill! \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n - Great Knot<\/strong> Calidris tenuirostris<\/em> \ubd89\uc740\uc5b4\uae68\ub3c4\uc694. At least 473 were counted on the 28th, in a flock also containing 25-50 Red Knot<\/strong>. These are the highest numbers of either species we have recorded during the project so far. 30,000 Great Knot<\/strong> can be present during northward migration, however.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/rs2000-greatknotDSC08515-1024x681.jpg\")
Great Knot<\/strong> (with one Red Knot <\/strong>\ubd89\uc740\uac00\uc2b4\ub3c4\uc694) \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n - Nordmann’s Greenshank<\/strong> Tringa guttifer<\/em> \uccad\ub2e4\ub9ac\ub3c4\uc694\uc0ac\ucd0c. One, apparently a 1cy progressing from juvenile plumage into non-breeding grey, was still present on 28th and 29th.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/rs2000nodshankDSC08467-1024x852.jpg\")
Nordmann’s Greenshank<\/strong> with Grey Plover<\/strong> \uac1c\uafe9 \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n - Chinese Grey Shrike<\/strong> Lanius sphenocercus<\/em> \ubb3c\ub54c\uae4c\uce58. Two or three present.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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Chinese Grey Shrike<\/strong> \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n - Bluethroat<\/strong> Luscinia svecica<\/em> \ud770\ub208\uc379\uc6b8\uc0c8. Two were heard calling and seen sitting up on wires over a very bird-rich patch of reed on 30th.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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Bluethroat \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n - Ochre-rumped Bunting<\/strong> Emberiza yessoensis<\/em> \uc1e0\uac80\uc740\uba38\ub9ac\uc465\uc0c8. Up to 15 were present in the same fields where the species was found in territory during the summer. As we are now well into the migration period of this species, it is hard to know whether these were locally-born birds, or migrants from afar.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/rs2000-orumpedDSC07937.jpg\")
Ochre-rumped Bunting<\/strong> \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n The next survey will be in mid-November. Already, since we started the surveys in late June, we have recorded at least 95,000 individual waterbirds (based on a summing of peak counts of each of the 100 waterbird species so far recorded), helping to confirm the continuing outstanding national and international importance of the Hwaseong Wetlands to biodiversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bird News from Nial Moores with Park Hea-Jeong (Hwaseong KFEM) and Jung Hanchul We conducted the ninth waterbird survey as part of the Hwaseong City – EAAFP Hwaseong Wetlands Project between October 28th and 30th, with highlights that included tens … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":23771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1026],"class_list":["post-23775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-hwaseong-fns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23775","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=23775"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23798,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23775\/revisions\/23798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Ochre-rumped Bunting<\/strong> Emberiza yessoensis<\/em> \uc1e0\uac80\uc740\uba38\ub9ac\uc465\uc0c8. Up to 15 were present in the same fields where the species was found in territory during the summer. As we are now well into the migration period of this species, it is hard to know whether these were locally-born birds, or migrants from afar.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Bluethroat<\/strong> Luscinia svecica<\/em> \ud770\ub208\uc379\uc6b8\uc0c8. Two were heard calling and seen sitting up on wires over a very bird-rich patch of reed on 30th.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Chinese Grey Shrike<\/strong> Lanius sphenocercus<\/em> \ubb3c\ub54c\uae4c\uce58. Two or three present.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Nordmann’s Greenshank<\/strong> Tringa guttifer<\/em> \uccad\ub2e4\ub9ac\ub3c4\uc694\uc0ac\ucd0c. One, apparently a 1cy progressing from juvenile plumage into non-breeding grey, was still present on 28th and 29th.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Great Knot<\/strong> Calidris tenuirostris<\/em> \ubd89\uc740\uc5b4\uae68\ub3c4\uc694. At least 473 were counted on the 28th, in a flock also containing 25-50 Red Knot<\/strong>. These are the highest numbers of either species we have recorded during the project so far. 30,000 Great Knot<\/strong> can be present during northward migration, however.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Black-tailed Godwit<\/strong> Limosa limosa bohaii<\/em> \ud751\uaf2c\ub9ac\ub3c4\uc694. Three of the recently-described large and very long-billed bohaii<\/em> subspecies were seen on 28th. One of these had an oddly deformed bill. Although melanuroides<\/em> is by far the commoner subspecies in Korea, a second type of Black-tailed Godwit<\/strong> was added to the Birds Korea Checklist back in 2013 <\/a>(as nominate limosa<\/em> “Data Deficient”), because a small number of obviously larger, longer-billed less richly-coloured individuals, more closely resembling the nominate form than melanuroides<\/em>, were seen annually. Somewhat surprisingly, the presence of this taxon in Korea was omitted from the otherwise excellent paper published in Ibis<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Ferruginous Duck<\/strong> Aythya nyroca<\/em> \uc801\uac08\uc0c9\ud770\uc8fd\uc9c0 . Although assessed as V1 in the ROK by Birds Korea (meaning 9 or fewer records each year) three males were seen on 28th, with a possible fourth seen too distantly to confirm.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Hybrid Aythya<\/em>. One male showing several Baer’s Pochard features including large head and bill, dark green head and (red-)brown breast, and stripey flanks, was seen on 28th. However, the bird also showed extensive grey in the upperparts, and almost entirely white flanks suggesting this was either a hybrid with some Baer’s influence (Baer’s x Greater Scaup???), or instead might have been the hybrid offspring between two or more other species altogether. A quick look at the excellent Bird hybrids website<\/a> did not find any obvious matches. Opinions, as always, warmly welcomed!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Tundra Bean Goose <\/strong>Anser serrirostris<\/em> \ud070\uae30\ub7ec\uae30. At least 27,500 counted.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n