{"id":24805,"date":"2021-05-29T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T06:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=24805"},"modified":"2021-05-29T15:58:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T06:58:11","slug":"hwaseong-wetlands-fns-may-26th-and-27th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=24805","title":{"rendered":"Hwaseong Wetlands FNS, May 26th and 27th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Bird News from Nial Moores (Director of Birds Korea) and Jung Hanchul (Gyeonggi KFEM and Birds Korea member).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Highlights of the 19th<\/sup> survey of these wetlands as part of the Hwaseong Wetlands Project included single Little Stint<\/strong> and Pied Harrier<\/strong>, two Oriental Pratincole<\/strong>, seven Whiskered Tern<\/strong> and rarest of all a near full breeding plumaged Black Tern<\/strong> (a species with fewer than ten national records, but sadly not photographed this time), calling as gaining height and flying south. We also found a new location with Ochre-rumped Buntings<\/strong> in territory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pied Harrier<\/strong> Circus melanoleucos<\/em> \uc54c\ub77d\uac1c\uad6c\ub9ac\ub9e4 \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As northward migration comes to an end, our survey found many fewer waterbirds than in any previous survey (just under 3,000), though these still included several globally-threatened waterbirds including 110 Far Eastern Curlew<\/strong>, 35 Great Knot<\/strong> and 3 Nordmann\u2019s Greenshank<\/strong>, latter species on 26th<\/sup> only; as well as 58 Black-faced<\/strong> (and five Eurasian) Spoonbills<\/strong>, six Chinese Egret <\/strong>and an oversummering Oriental Stork<\/strong>.\u00a0 Among 29 species of shorebird, we also enjoyed good views of several breeding species (e.g., Little Ringed Plover<\/strong> and Common Redshank<\/strong>) and of some late migrants, including 185 breeding-plumaged Terek Sandpiper<\/strong> and four Curlew Sandpiper<\/strong>. Most frustrating was scoping a possible Spoon-billed Sandpiper<\/em> on both the 26th<\/sup> and 27th<\/sup>, too distant to identify with any level of confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chinese Egret<\/strong> Egretta eulophotes<\/em> \ub178\ub791\ubd80\ub9ac\ubc31\ub85c \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Eurasian Spoonbill <\/strong>Platalea leucorodia<\/em> \ub178\ub791\ubd80\ub9ac\uc800\uc5b4\uc0c8 \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Little Ringed Plover<\/strong> Charadrius dubius<\/em> \uaf2c\ub9c8\ubb3c\ub5bc\uc0c8 \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Common Redshank<\/strong> Tringa totanus<\/em> \ubd89\uc740\ubc1c\ub3c4\uc694 \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Terek Sandpiper<\/strong> Xenus cinereus<\/em> \ub4b7\ubd80\ub9ac\ub3c4\uc694 \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The surveys we have conducted for the Wetlands Project, led by the EAAFP Secretariat and funded by Hwaseong City, have confirmed beyond any doubt the outstanding international importance of these wetlands; and preparations are now well underway to designate some of the FNS as a nationally protected wetland conservation area and perhaps as a Ramsar site. All the same, the colony of more than 100 pairs of Little Tern <\/strong>found in mid-May has already been abandoned, presumably because water levels in the Reclamation Lake were heightened by managers; and in addition to last year\u2019s nesting site of the Nationally Endangered Ochre-rumped Bunting<\/strong> being bulldozed sometime before April, even the newly-discovered area is also even now threatened with being ploughed under.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ochre-rumped Buntin<\/strong>g Emberiza yessoensi<\/em>s \uc1e0\uac80\uc740\uba38\ub9ac\uc465\uc0c8 \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Four male Ochre-rumped Buntings were seen here on May 26th: note the bulldozer behind and the bulldozer tracks through the area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nesting area of Ochre-rumped Buntings in 2020…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And the same area as above, in 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ochre-rumped Bunting<\/strong>, Hwaseong FNS, May 26th.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Site of Little Tern<\/strong> colony, mid-May 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nationally Vulnerable Little Tern<\/strong> Sternula albifrons<\/em> \uc1e0\uc81c\ube44\uac08\ub9e4\uae30. This species appears to be undergoing a catastrophic decline in the ROK, with most colonies now dependent on areas actively undergoing reclamation. A National Recovery Plan, with management guidelines, and conservation actions taken by reclamation bodies could quickly reverse this species’ negative trend. is there any support for such a plan?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bird News from Nial Moores (Director of Birds Korea) and Jung Hanchul (Gyeonggi KFEM and Birds Korea member). Highlights of the 19th survey of these wetlands as part of the Hwaseong Wetlands Project included single Little Stint and Pied Harrier, … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":24792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[976,967],"class_list":["post-24805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-hwaseong-wetlands","tag-ochre-rumped-bunting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24805","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=24805"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24810,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24805\/revisions\/24810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}