{"id":27820,"date":"2023-09-22T22:08:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T13:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=27820"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:23:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T04:23:28","slug":"yeoncheon-imjin-river-biosphere-reserve-september-7-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=27820","title":{"rendered":"Yeoncheon Imjin River Biosphere Reserve: September 7-22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A total of 85 bird species, three mammal species (Korean Water Deer<\/strong>, Wild Boar<\/strong> and Amur Leopard Cat<\/strong>), one globally threatened freshwater turtle species, and two species of globally threatened amphibian (multiple Seoul Pond Frogs<\/strong> and 1-2 Suwon Tree Frog<\/strong> heard) were logged by three Birds Koreans (Nial Moores, Baek Seung-Kwang and Lee Su-Young) in Yeoncheon between September 7th and 22nd. This was even though only a few hours of this period were actually dedicated to survey, with most time and energy instead dedicated to the “Spoonbills Project<\/a>“. Of this total, c. 16 bird species were new for our “Birds Korea county list”, taking the total to 208. In addition to multiple encounters with the nationally Critically Endangered Hill Pigeon<\/strong>, species of greatest note for this land-locked county included Globally Critically Endangered Yellow-breasted Bunting<\/strong> (with two on 13th and three on 22nd), single Asian House Martin<\/strong> (on 8th), two single Chestnut-flanked White-eye<\/strong> (on 16th and 22nd), single (presumed) Japanese Leaf Warbler<\/strong> (on 16th) and two Eurasian Spoonbill<\/strong> (on 22nd). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notable “support” species included Garganey<\/strong> on several dates; up to eight Long-billed Plover<\/strong> at the “Spoonbills project” site; three species of snipe (with a high count of 15 Common Snipe<\/strong> in the Peace Rice-fields on 22nd, sharing 3-4 fields with substantial numbers of Intermediate<\/strong> and Eastern Cattle Egret<\/strong>); a high overflying flock of 45 Common Greenshank<\/strong>, moving southwest (on 13th); migrant Osprey <\/strong>on two dates; multiple observations of Crested Honey Buzzard<\/strong> (apparently including some local over-summering birds and the start of southward migration – with four on 22nd); and single Pechora Pipit<\/strong>, two Black-faced Bunting<\/strong> and two Chestnut Bunting<\/strong> on 22nd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hill Pigeon<\/strong> Columba rupestris<\/em> \ub0ad\ube44\ub458\uae30 \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Long-billed Plover<\/strong> Charadrius placidus<\/em> \ud770\ubaa9\ubb3c\ub5bc\uc0c8 \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Common Snipe<\/strong> Gallinago gallinago<\/em> \uae85\ub3c4\uc694 \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 Baek Seung-Kwang<\/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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Intermediate Egret<\/strong> Ardea intermedia<\/em> \uc911\ubc31\ub85c \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Osprey<\/strong> Pandion haliaetus<\/em> \ubb3c\uc218\ub9ac \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Yellow-breasted Bunting<\/strong> Emberiza aureola<\/em> \uac80\uc740\uba38\ub9ac\ucd09\uc0c8 \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Yellow-breasted Bunting<\/strong> Emberiza aureola<\/em> \uac80\uc740\uba38\ub9ac\ucd09\uc0c8 \u00a9 Lee Su-Young<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Black-faced Bunting<\/strong> Emberiza spodocephala<\/em> \ucd09\uc0c8 \u00a9 Lee Su-Young<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wild Boar<\/strong> Sus scrofa<\/em> \uba67\ub3fc\uc9c0 \u00a9 Baek Seung-Kwang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A total of 85 bird species, three mammal species (Korean Water Deer, Wild Boar and Amur Leopard Cat), one globally threatened freshwater turtle species, and two species of globally threatened amphibian (multiple Seoul Pond Frogs and 1-2 Suwon Tree Frog … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":27826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1120],"class_list":["post-27820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-yeoncheon-imjin-river-biosphere-reserve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27820","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=27820"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27875,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27820\/revisions\/27875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}