{"id":30721,"date":"2025-06-24T09:04:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T00:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=30721"},"modified":"2025-06-24T19:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:03:08","slug":"summer-geese-in-cheolwon-friday-june-20-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=30721","title":{"rendered":"Summer Geese in Cheolwon (Friday, June 20, 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Bernhard Seliger and Dr. Hyun-Ah Choi (Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Korea, Birds Korea), Lara Dommitzsch (HSF Korea), Minjae Baek (EAAFP), Shin Dong-Ho (EAAFP)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Friday, June 20, was mainly notable for the amounts of rain pouring down the whole day. Had we not preplanned to meet with the EAAFP team, maybe we would have canceled the trip. Like this, it was a great trip with very few birds, and almost no good views, with one exception, but very good talks and pleasant company. Unfortunately, due to the weather, all we could do was drive through the rice fields and occasionally stop, with only the most obvious birds seen \u2013 among them, albeit briefly, one <strong>Chinese Sparrowhawk<\/strong>. But the biggest surprise came right at the beginning, when we visited Hak reservoir: two immature <strong>Greater White-Fronted Geese<\/strong> who seem to have missed the opportunity to migrate northwards. I am not aware, how often this happens, but for me these were the first June geese in Korea \u2013 usually, the late geese sometimes seen until early April either migrate finally late, or maybe are too sick and do not survive. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can find the complete bird lists at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hak Reservoir and surroundings: <a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S252259234\">https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S252259234<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baekmakoji to Crane village: <a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S252259233\">https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S252259233<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hantangang and surroundings: <a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S252259232\">https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S252259232<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Pic-1-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Pic-1-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Pic-1-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Pic-1-1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Pic-1-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Pic-1-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Pic-1-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pic 1: Greater White-Fronted Geese <em>Anser albifrons<\/em> \uc1e0\uae30\ub7ec\uae30 in summer in Cheolwon \u2013 what a surprise! (\u00a9 Bernhard Seliger)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Pic-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Pic-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Pic-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Pic-2-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Pic-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Pic-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Pic-2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pic 2: Wet birding at Hak Reservoir \u2013 strangely enough, the bird hide is constructed in a way that a maximum of rain can enter the observation area (\u00a9 Hyun-Ah Choi)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Bernhard Seliger and Dr. Hyun-Ah Choi (Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Korea, Birds Korea), Lara Dommitzsch (HSF Korea), Minjae Baek (EAAFP), Shin Dong-Ho (EAAFP) Last Friday, June 20, was mainly notable for the amounts of rain pouring down the whole day. Had we &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=30721\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":30722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30721","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\/30721","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=30721"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30733,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30721\/revisions\/30733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}