Bird News by Spike Millington<\/p>\n
The weekend of 27-28th April saw a continuing build up of shorebirds at Gojan mudflats with up to 3,000 Dunlin<\/strong> and 500 Bar-tailed Godwits<\/strong> (with a few Black-taileds<\/strong>), the latter including several colour-flagged birds from Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere in the Flyway. Great knot<\/strong> numbers were stable at 60, but there were few Curlews, and all Far-Eastern Curlews<\/strong>. However, Curlews are pretty independent-minded birds and they could have chosen to roost on the partially reclaimed land by the University, which I did not check. Whimbrels<\/strong> were up to at least 50 and the first small shorebirds were seen, with 2 Red-necked Stint<\/strong>, 2 Mongolian Plovers<\/strong> and single Terek<\/strong> and Sharp-tailed Sandpipers<\/strong>. Other shorebirds included 200 Grey Plover<\/strong>, many in blotchy partial summer plumage and a few Greenshanks<\/strong>, Eastern\u00a0Oystercatchers<\/strong> and Ruddy Turnstones<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Over on Namdong Reservoir, duck numbers have declined quite significantly in the last couple of weeks. All the Common Shelduck have gone and only a handful of Common Pochard<\/strong> remain, with 150 Eurasian Teal<\/strong>, 60 Shoveler<\/strong>, 10 Gadwall<\/strong> and 6 Eurasian Wigeon<\/strong>. Soon only the Spot-billed Ducks<\/strong> will be left!<\/p>\n On Incheon Old Golf Course thrushes were much in evidence with 10 Pale<\/strong>, 5-6 Grey-backed<\/strong>, 3 Scaly<\/strong> and 2 Dusky<\/strong> Thrushes<\/strong>. A flighty party of 8 Eastern Great Tits<\/strong> with 3 Coal Tits<\/strong> might have been migrating. A few Yellow-browed Warblers<\/strong> were flitting about and calling and 2-3 Chinese Nuthatches<\/strong> were active in the pines.<\/p>\n New birds keep appearing in Michuhol Park, with a male Blue-and-White Flycatcher<\/strong> on 26th, two male Mugimaki Flycatchers<\/strong> on 29th, and Wryneck<\/strong>, Rufous-tailed Robin<\/strong>, Grey-streaked Flycatcher\u00a0<\/strong>and Eye-browed Thrush<\/strong> on 30th.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bird News by Spike Millington The weekend of 27-28th April saw a continuing build up of shorebirds at Gojan mudflats with up to 3,000 Dunlin and 500 Bar-tailed Godwits (with a few Black-taileds), the latter including several colour-flagged birds from … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-sightings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8626,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624\/revisions\/8626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}