Bird News from Nial Moores With the onset of milder temperatures (maxima of 31C on the 29th falling to 27C on 4th), a few hours spent seawatching off Igidae, and a quick check of a couple of the best areas … read more
Bird News from Tim Edelsten An afternoon on the island included a brief look at the main shorebird roost followed by the Western Reservoir and adjacent natural wetland. This shallow reed-fringed wetland is probably the best remaining freshwater habitat on … read more
Bird News from Andreas Kim An hour long visit to the natural tidal-flat of the Mokpo Namhang Urban Wetland short before high tide showed a very interesting assemblage of shorebirds: 12 Black-tailed Godwit, 73 Common Greenshank, 13 Common Redshank, 10 … read more
Birds News from Jason Loghry On Saturday morning, light to dark grey clouds covered the sky. A typhoon (Toraji) had passed the night before more quietly than expected. At Myeongji, 300+ Barn Swallow were at roost on some reeds, while … read more
Bird News by Jason Loghry, Ha Jung-Mun, Nial Moores, Shim Kyu-Sik, Song In-Sik, Lee Yong-Sang, Maria Lisak, and Patrick Blake August 24 On Saturday morning, a group of Birds Koreans met to look at seabirds off Heuksan Island. It was … read more
Bird News from Andreas Kim The stream at high tide had only few birds. 2 Great Egret, 1 Intermediate Egret, 3 Little Egret, 1 Striated Heron, 4 Grey-tailed Tattler, 1 Black-backed Wagtail, a short appearing Common Kingfisher as well as … read more
Bird News from Tim Edelsten The heatwave continues into a third month of temperatures above 30 degrees and 80% humidity. At Songdo, where further chunks of habitat dissapear under construction with each new visit, dwindling birdlife is crowded into ever … read more
새와 생명의 터 2013년 8월 18일 조류종에 대한 이해와 보전을 위해 정확히 새를 식별하는 능력은 필수적입니다. 식별의 기술은 대단한 지적 도전을 요구하며 경험과 전문성의 정도를 떠나서 탐조인들에게 우리가 둘러싸인 자연 세계를 더욱 주의 깊게 듣고 볼 수 있게 해주기 때문입니다. … read more
지속가능한 발전에 헌신하는 보전단체로서 우리는 에너지 보전과 대체에너지원(풍력과 태양광 발전을 포함하는) 개발을 매우 지지하는 바이다. 하지만 우리의 지지는 생태적 영향, 특히 조류와 그 서식지에 끼치는 충격이 낮아야 하며 인류 공동체가 그 혜택을 누릴 수 있을 경우에 한해서이다. 대형 풍력터빈 7기를 … read more
Birds Korea, August 19th 2013 As an organisation committed to sustainable development, we support greater conservation of energy and the development of alternative energy resources (including from wind and solar power). However, we only support such development when it is … read more