Jason Loghry, October 13 2013 Students of Obang Elementary recently received postcards in the mail from the People’s Republic of China. They were so excited and surprised to find that other students on our flyway also care about birds – … read more
Bird News from Robin Newlin A morning visit (the first in some years!) to Songdo’s Lagoon. Despite the warm weather, a hint of coming winter: among many of the same waterfowl species reported by Tim Edelsten on October 5 (e.g. Gadwall, Eurasian … read more
Birds Korea and The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Geum Estuary & Saemangeum Under overcast skies with occasional rain showers, the main team visited the Geum Estuary – capturing some excellent footage of a Spoon-billed Sandpiper coming in at high tide: … read more
Birds Korea and The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Gwangju AM; Geum Estuary PM Thanks to the generosity and hard work of Prof. Seong Ha-Cheol and his students and of course of the tireless Prof. Maria Lisak, a morning seminar on … read more
Birds Korea (Jason Loghry, Lee Jung-Kyu, Jeon Shi-Jin and Nial Moores) & CLO (Gerrit Vyn and Adam Sedgley): Nakdong Estuary Back out to the Nakdong Estuary under almost clear skies with a brisk northerly wind, whipping up waves … read more
Bird News from Tim Edelsten Tundra Bean Goose Anser serrirostris. An overhead skein of 22. Gadwall Anas strepera. Seven. Eurasian Wigeon Anas penelope. One coming out of eclipse looked distinctively dark in the sunshine. Mallard Anas platyrhynchos. Eastern Spot-billed Duck Anas zonorhyncha. Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata. Already … read more
Birds Korea (Jason Loghry, Lee Jung-Kyu, Jeon Shi-Jin and Nial Moores) & CLO (Gerrit Vyn and Adam Sedgley): Nakdong Estuary, October 3rd Birds Korea has for some time now been gathering material for a mini-documentary aiming to tell the story … read more
Birds Korea, September 30th 2013 Birds Korea is a legally-registered Korean NGO, working for the conservation of birds and their habitats in Korea and the wider Yellow Sea Eco-region. We conduct scientific research, develop plans and designs and we conduct … read more
Nial Moores PhD, Birds Korea, October 2nd 2013 The Four Rivers project entailed, especially between 2009 and 2012, the deep-dredging of many hundreds of kilometres of naturally-shallow rivers and the construction of numerous new dams, poorly-designed eco-parks and extensive bicycle … read more
Bird News from Andreas Kim After a rainy night the morning slowly started to clear and occasionally the sun came through. Like two days earlier, most birds were still the same, of note were: the Black-winged Stilt still present, 5 … read more