{"id":8836,"date":"2013-05-18T12:09:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T03:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=8836"},"modified":"2013-05-18T12:09:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T03:09:36","slug":"nakdong-estuary-may-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=8836","title":{"rendered":"Nakdong Estuary, May 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bird News from Nial Moores<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meeting up with the Nakdong Eco-School team (working full-time in the Nakdong, at present under the auspices of Birds Korea<\/em>), took the boat kindly captained by Mr. Jeon Shi-Jin to undertake a shorebird survey. \u00a0The same areas were covered as in past research (including during the national shorebird survey, on May 13th 2008), with the additional aim of finding\u00a0Spoon-billed Sandpiper<\/em>. Unfortunately, habitat here continues to be fragmented and disturbed: construction continues close to and around the estuary, and city-financed \u201ccleaning\u201d activities on the outer islands were obviously causing much disturbance, especially to nesting\u00a0Little Tern<\/strong>\u00a0and some shorebirds. No\u00a0Spoon-billed Sandpipers<\/em>\u00a0were found (although apparently three were photographed here a week earlier by Mo In-Ho\u00a0via<\/em>\u00a0Kim Hyang-Ee).<\/p>\n

Under hazy blue skies and with moderate easterlies, a total of only 1,491 shorebirds of 16 species were found. The three most numerous were\u00a0Dunlin<\/strong>\u00a0(1,160),\u00a0Sanderling<\/strong>\u00a0(153) and\u00a0Red-necked Stint<\/strong>\u00a0(80).\u00a0 This compares with 2,525 shorebirds counted here in mid-May 2008, with substantially higher numbers of most species recorded during that count (especially\u00a0Red-necked Stint<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Terek Sandpiper<\/strong>), with the exception of\u00a0Dunlin<\/strong>\u00a0(1,373) and\u00a0Sanderling<\/strong>(93).\u00a0Little Terns<\/strong>, which breed in the estuary in large numbers, were not counted, but\u00a0Common Terns<\/strong>\u00a0were \u2013 with an estimated 1,100 present (all\u00a0longipennis<\/em>). Other species of conservation importance \/ note included five\u00a0Black-faced Spoonbill<\/strong>, a\u00a0Chinese Egret<\/strong>, the personal first\u00a0Oriental Reed Warbler<\/strong>\u00a0of the year, and several lingering over-winterers, including three\u00a0Common Shelduck<\/strong>, two\u00a0Red-breasted Merganser<\/strong>, a\u00a0Whooper Swan<\/strong>\u00a0and a\u00a0Vega Gull<\/strong>. Outstanding highlight in terms of rarity was a\u00a0Greater Crested Tern<\/strong>\u00a0seen (and extremely poorly \/ perhaps unrecognizably digiscoped) flying west probably 2km offshore (with identification based primarily on the striking upperwing contrast and its bulky size when compared directly with other terns at a similar range).\u00a0 Although the species is still extremely rarely reported in Korean waters, one was also present in Busan in late summer \/ autumn of 2012 and like most seabird species seems likely to be overlooked.<\/p>\n

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Status of Tidal-flats Nakdong, Photo \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Boat team, Photo \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Common Tern<\/strong>\u00a0Sterna hirundo<\/em>, Photo \u00a9 Nial Moores<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Bird News from Nial Moores Meeting up with the Nakdong Eco-School team (working full-time in the Nakdong, at present under the auspices of Birds Korea), took the boat kindly captained by Mr. Jeon Shi-Jin to undertake a shorebird survey. \u00a0The … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-8836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-nakdong-estuary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8836","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8836"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8846,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8836\/revisions\/8846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}