{"id":26206,"date":"2022-07-09T12:18:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T03:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=26206"},"modified":"2022-07-09T15:53:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T06:53:12","slug":"first-record-of-crow-billed-drongo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=26206","title":{"rendered":"First National Record of Crow-billed Drongo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bird news by Leslie Hurteau<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On June 10th, 2022, the Jeju Wildlife Research Center (\uc81c\uc8fc\uc57c\uc0dd\ub3d9\ubb3c\uc5f0\uad6c\uc13c\ud130) found a Crow-billed Drongo<\/strong> Dicrurus annectens<\/em> on Mara Island, the most southern point of the ROK. This species has never been recorded in the Republic of Korea, making it a national first. The bird was caught for measurements, banded, and then released. Hearing the news, I took a trip to Mara Island the morning of June 15th. I wasn\u2019t quite sure what to expect, but amazingly the bird was relocated within less than an hour of being on the island. I spent some time with the bird, taking record photos (at a safe distance), and admired the random chance of viewing this species at this particular time and place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crow-billed Drongo<\/strong> Dicrurus annectens<\/em> found on June 10th by the Jeju Wildlife Research Center. This is the first record for the Republic of Korea. \u00a9 Leslie Hurteau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Crow-billed Drongo<\/strong> has been given the tentative Korean name \ud070\ubd80\ub9ac\ubc14\ub78c\uae4c\ub9c8\uadc0<\/strong>. \u00a9 Leslie Hurteau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Range map of Crow-billed Drongo observations on eBird, where purple-pink represents a sighting or concentration of sightings. Their range is mostly restricted to South and Southeast Asia. (image accessed from https:\/\/ebird.org\/)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

According to eBird<\/a>, the range of the Crow-billed Drongo<\/strong> is restricted to South and Southeast Asia. Southwestern China has the closest records geographically to Korea, with no sightings north of the Yangtze River in PR China, Taiwan, or Japan. So unless there are other sightings that have gone unreported, this is both the first documented record of a Crow-billed Drongo <\/strong>in the ROK and the most northern record. The species has been given a tentative Korean name \ud070\ubd80\ub9ac\ubc14\ub78c\uae4c\ub9c8\uadc0<\/strong>, roughly translating to Large-billed Windcrow (or Drongo), which I personally feel is fitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of several media announcements can be read here (via the local Halla Daily): <\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.ihalla.com\/read.php3?aid=1656477681728505044<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Was this bird brought in by strong winds? Or is this record related to range expansion as a result of the warming climate? \u00a9 Leslie Hurteau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Crow-billed Drongo<\/strong> was rather confiding and was not bothered much by the resident Oriental Magpies <\/strong>\u00a9 Leslie Hurteau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Certainly more questions come up than answers. Was this individual simply lost on winds? Is this a hint at an attempt of range expansion (either by chance or due to climate change)? Was there any assistance at all to the bird’s arrival in Korea (ship-assisted)? Clearly some of these are not easily answered but perhaps with time and more careful observations in the birding community we can get a better overall picture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because the record is adequately documented (with images and measurements), the species will be added to Category One of the Birds Korea Checklist in the next update (as intended, within 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the fourth drongo species recorded in the ROK (and on the Korean Peninsula), the other three being Black Drongo<\/strong> Dicrurus macrocercus<\/em> \uac80\uc740\ubc14\ub78c\uae4c\ub9c8\uadc0<\/strong>, Ashy Drongo<\/strong> Dicrurus leucophaeus<\/em> \ud68c\uc0c9\ubc14\ub78c\uae4c\ub9c8\uadc0<\/strong> and Hair-crested Drongo<\/strong> Dicrurus hottentottus<\/em>, \ubc14\ub78c\uae4c\ub9c8\uadc0<\/strong>. With other tropical species being more frequently reported (and \/ or noticed?), such as Lesser Coucal<\/strong> Centropus bengalensis<\/em> \uc791\uc740\ubed0\uafb8\uae30\uc0ac\ucd0c<\/strong> and Asian Koel<\/strong> Eudynamys scolopaceus<\/em> \uac80\uc740\ubed0\uafb8\uae30<\/strong>, have to wonder what might be next!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bird news by Leslie Hurteau On June 10th, 2022, the Jeju Wildlife Research Center (\uc81c\uc8fc\uc57c\uc0dd\ub3d9\ubb3c\uc5f0\uad6c\uc13c\ud130) found a Crow-billed Drongo Dicrurus annectens on Mara Island, the most southern point of the ROK. This species has never been recorded in the Republic … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":26219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1111,44,50,1079,1046,46,1045,1078],"class_list":["post-26206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-crow-billed-drongo","tag-jeju","tag-jeju-island","tag-jeju-do","tag-mara-island","tag-mara-do","tag-marado","tag-national-first-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26206","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26206"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26228,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26206\/revisions\/26228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}