Notable counts include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- At least 650 Swan Geese<\/strong> (probably an undercount, due to their place right below the military fence and inquiring soldiers coming). We saw them here regularly in winter since 2018 (November and December, until the ground, where they like to feed, freezes), but this was the second highest overall count and the first spring count<\/li>
- Around 1,300 Great Cormorants<\/strong> at Yudo Islet, with probably 600 nests in use.<\/li>
- At the same place, around 140 Grey Herons<\/strong> nesting. No Black-Faced Spoonbills<\/strong> or Great Egrets <\/strong>were seen nesting yet.<\/li>
- 12 White-Naped Cranes<\/strong> feeding on the opposite side of Han river (close to Odusan observatory).<\/li>
- At least 4000 gulls in the river; among them Mongolian Gulls<\/strong>, Vega Gulls<\/strong>, Black-tailed Gulls<\/strong>, and a few Black-headed Gulls<\/strong>.<\/li>
- A goose with transmitter and ring (see below) at Siam wetland.<\/li>
- A Common Starling<\/strong> among a group of White-cheeked Starlings<\/strong>.<\/li>
- Very few waders yet: 3 Far Eastern Oystercatchers<\/strong> far-out in Han River on a sandbank; and three Little Ringed Plovers<\/strong> at Siam Wetland.<\/li>
- Along them fence, some movement of thrushes, starlings, Rustic <\/strong>and Yellow-throated Buntings<\/strong>.<\/li>
- In the fields, ongoing work to put trenches into pipes or concrete trenches leads to a poorer and poorer habitat. Raising concern of this destruction of biodiversity will be one of the focus areas of our work this year.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
You can find the full lists at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yu-do area: https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S105265077<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Siam-Ri wetland area: https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S105265082<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Pic-1-Swan-Geese.jpg\")
Swan Geese Anser cygnoides<\/em> together with Tundra Bean Geese<\/strong> and Eastern Spot-billed Ducks<\/strong> Anas zonorhyncha<\/em> just behind the military fence protecting Han river (therefore the blur in the picture) \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Pic-1b-Swan-Goose.jpg\")
Swan Goose<\/strong> Anser cygnoides<\/em> \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Pic-2-Grey-capped-Woodpecker-703x1024.jpg\")
Grey-capped Woodpecker<\/strong> Dendrocopos canicapillus<\/em>, a bird of riparian forests \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Pic-3-Cormorant-with-Nisting-Material.jpg\")
Looking for nesting material; Great Cormorants <\/strong>Phalacrocorax carbo<\/em> were busy preparing their homes \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Pic-4-Starlings.jpg\")
Common Starling<\/strong> Sturnus vulgaris<\/em> and a White-cheecked Starling<\/strong> Spodiopsar cineraceus<\/em> feeding along fence of Han River \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Pic-5-Goose-with-transmitter.jpg\")
Greater White-fronted Goose<\/strong> Anser albifrons<\/em> with a transmitter and ring near Siam Wetland \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Pic-6-Concrete.jpg\")
The sad part of the story \u2013 every time being in the survey area, we are greeted by new monstrous concrete trenches and now also massive concrete accessways into the fields \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Bernhard Seliger and Dr. Hyun-Ah Choi (Birds Korea, Hanns Seidel Foundation) In between the rain on Thursday and the snow-rain on Saturday, we managed to spend a day with clouded skies, but a perfectly clear view in Gimpo. Though … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":25664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-sightings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25658","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=25658"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25671,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25658\/revisions\/25671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Around 1,300 Great Cormorants<\/strong> at Yudo Islet, with probably 600 nests in use.<\/li>