{"id":32198,"date":"2026-09-02T15:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=32198"},"modified":"2026-09-02T15:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:18:21","slug":"counts-of-scaly-sided-merganser-in-the-yeoncheon-imjin-river-flyway-network-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=32198","title":{"rendered":"Counts of Scaly-sided Merganser in the Yeoncheon Imjin River Flyway Network Site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Nial Moores, National Director, Birds Korea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2025, Birds Korea successfully applied for a small grant from the EAAFP, to help support our counts of the globally Endangered Scaly-sided Merganser \ud638\uc0ac\ube44\uc624\ub9ac along the Imjin River in Yeoncheon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The small grant was used (1) to fund a high-frequency of counts of Scaly-sided Merganser, especially along 21km of the Imjin River in Yeoncheon County between October 2025 and April 2026; (2) to produce designs for signboards that could help to explain about this remarkable species and the river they depend on; and (3) to support the writing of a report that could present the count data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EAAFP has now posted a short article about our work for the small grant <a href=\"https:\/\/eaaflyway.org\/improving-the-conservation-status-of-the-scaly-sided-merganser-along-the-imjin-river-republic-of-korea\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/eaaflyway.org\/improving-the-conservation-status-of-the-scaly-sided-merganser-along-the-imjin-river-republic-of-korea\/\">here<\/a>; together with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/848g5iq09uetvk864yeem\/Nial-Moores_Appendix_Report-2025-Small-Grant-Fund-for-Working-Groups-and-Task-Forces.pdf?rlkey=vm1br2g4i4tnprc9kqzriicvs&amp;st=nsu8jstk&amp;e=1&amp;dl=0\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/848g5iq09uetvk864yeem\/Nial-Moores_Appendix_Report-2025-Small-Grant-Fund-for-Working-Groups-and-Task-Forces.pdf?rlkey=vm1br2g4i4tnprc9kqzriicvs&amp;st=nsu8jstk&amp;e=1&amp;dl=0\">Appendix<\/a>, which is our much more detailed report on five-years of counts of Scaly-sided Merganser (Moores et al. 2026), that you can download below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/EAAFP-Small-Grant-Report-August-2026.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of EAAFP Small Grant Report- August 2026.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-38c2dc49-39ef-4c8e-bb8f-4f6a08e320b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/EAAFP-Small-Grant-Report-August-2026.pdf\">EAAFP Small Grant Report- August 2026<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/EAAFP-Small-Grant-Report-August-2026.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-38c2dc49-39ef-4c8e-bb8f-4f6a08e320b0\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reference<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moores, N., Baek S-K, Lee S-Y &amp; Jang R. 2026. \u00a0Improving the conservation status of the Scaly-sided Merganser along the Imjin River, Republic of Korea. EAAFP Small Grant report (August 2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Nial Moores, National Director, Birds Korea In 2025, Birds Korea successfully applied for a small grant from the EAAFP, to help support our counts of the globally Endangered Scaly-sided Merganser \ud638\uc0ac\ube44\uc624\ub9ac along the Imjin River in Yeoncheon. The small &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=32198\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":32203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1142,112,1096,1215],"class_list":["post-32198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservation","tag-imjin-river","tag-scaly-sided-merganser","tag-yeoncheon","tag-yeoncheon-imjin-river-flyway-network-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32198","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=32198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32202,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32198\/revisions\/32202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}