{"id":6092,"date":"2012-09-16T02:37:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T17:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=6092"},"modified":"2012-09-16T09:52:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T00:52:40","slug":"west-coast-september-1st-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=6092","title":{"rendered":"West Coast (September 1st weekend)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bird news by Subhojit Chakladar with Bradlee Sulentic and Jason Loghry<\/p>\n

A fantastic weekend of birding along the west coast. Starting early on a hot. humid Saturday, Brad and I spent some time around the Seosan lake A. Highlights included a solitary Greater White Fronted Goose<\/strong>, a Peregrine and Whiskered Terns<\/strong> (~6) including 2 juveniles. Other birds of interest included distant views of a Common Snipe<\/strong>,\u00a0 a Yellow Wagtai<\/strong>l and a presumed Arctic Warbler<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

After meeting up with Jason at Gunsan, we headed towards Yubu-do in search of a bird that has come to symbolize the fragility of wetlands. Though we expected to find this critically endangered bird, we (Brad and I) didn’t expect it to be this easy! The 5(6) Spoon-billed Sandpiper<\/strong> were the undoubted highlight of this trip. Other prominent species encountered included Saunder’s Gulls<\/strong>, Eurasian<\/strong> and Far Eastern Curlews<\/strong>, Whimbrels<\/strong>, Broad-billed Sandpipers<\/strong>, Red-necked Stints<\/strong>, Black<\/strong> and Bar-tailed Godwits<\/strong>, Common<\/strong> Greenshanks<\/strong>, Marsh Sandpipers<\/strong>, Wood Sandpipers<\/strong>, Grey<\/strong> Plovers<\/strong> and a single Northern<\/strong> Shoveler<\/strong>. The locations surveyed included the Saemangeum tidal flats (near the airport) and the Geum barrage.<\/p>\n

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Whiskered Tern Childonias hybrida<\/p><\/div>\n

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Spoon-billed Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus<\/p><\/div>\n

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