{"id":30946,"date":"2025-08-18T21:36:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=30946"},"modified":"2025-08-19T08:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T23:01:33","slug":"jeju-summer-birds-june-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=30946","title":{"rendered":"Summer Birding on Jeju, June + July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bird news and photos from Leslie Hurteau. All images taken in 2025, unless otherwise noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summer birding on Jeju, and the whole of Korea really, can be particularly unpleasant with high humidity, oppressive heat (getting hotter in recent years), and periods of heavy rainfall. So it’s no surprise that the winter months and migration periods are more popular with birders. However, there’s a lot to be found in the summer that makes Jeju very special, and overall helps Korea standout both in East Asia and globally in the birding world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since summer birding on Jeju isn’t as popular as the other seasons, I would like to share some of the summer birding highlights one can expect in Jeju from June to July. Hopefully to make the season more appealing and encourage other birders to get out and find those summer specialties. There is a lot to cover, including many breeding resident species, so I will stick strictly to the summer visitors. This is by no means meant to be comprehensive and only covers what I personally have found through birding on Jeju for four years (and counting). I’m positive there are more surprises waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fairy Pitta<\/strong> Pitta nympha<\/em> \ud314\uc0c9\uc870<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Among local birders, summer birding on Jeju mainly revolves around Fairy Pittas<\/strong> and Black Paradise Flycatchers<\/strong>. Both species arrive on Jeju around May and stick around until September or so. They are fairly common in similar habitat, mainly thick forests (gotjawal \uacf6\uc790\uc648), forested volcanic hills (oreum \uc624\ub984), and steep rocky valleys on the slopes of Hallasan. Finding them can be difficult and often are heard only, mainly because both species are very shy, and their preferred habitat makes for challenging birding (poor light and many plants!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Black Paradise Flycatcher<\/strong> Terpsiphone atrocaudata<\/em> \uae34\uaf2c\ub9ac\ub531\uc0c8<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fairy Pitta<\/strong> Pitta nympha<\/em> \ud314\uc0c9\uc870<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fairy Pitta<\/strong> Pitta nympha<\/em> \ud314\uc0c9\uc870<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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