Bird News from Nial Moores Rain and strong southerlies are the ideal conditions for falls of Japanese-bound migrants in Busan. This spring has remained stubbornly dry locally, however, with abundant sunshine and winds often tending to the east. My personal … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger (HSF Seoul and Birds Korea) with family Growing up in the German countryside, I thought it is normal to have birds singing loudly from 4 a.m. in the spring and summer mornings. The strength of the bird … read more
Nial Moores, Baek Seung-Kwang, Lee Su-Young, Jang Ryang, Lee Su-Jin and Kim Hi-Song. The following are a few highlights and insights from research conducted by Birds Korea under contract from Yeoncheon County in the internationally important Core and Buffer Zones … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger and Dr. Hyun-Ah Choi (Birds Korea, Hanns Seidel Foundation) In between the rain on Thursday and the snow-rain on Saturday, we managed to spend a day with clouded skies, but a perfectly clear view in Gimpo. Though … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger, Dr. Hyun-Ah Choi (Hanns Seidel Foundation, Birds Korea) After the 2022 Pyeongchang Peace Forum, the was time for a quick check-up on birds in Goseong County. Goseong, a divided county directly at the inner-Korean border, with roughly … read more
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea, March 2nd 2022 Funded by the Hanns Seidel Foundation (Korea office), “Team Hosa” (comprised of Dr Bernhard Seliger, Ms Lee Su-Young, Mr Baek-Seung-Kwang and myself) surveyed several major rivers and their tributaries largely in the … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores, Bernhard Seliger, Baek Seung-Kwang, Lee Su-Young and Jang Ryang (with a team from the EAAFP Secretariat on 11th). Funded variously on different dates by the Hanns Seidel Foundation and Yeoncheon County, detailed data from this … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger (Birds Korea, Hanns Seidel Foundation) with Mark Siegmund An interesting day mainly looking at cranes in the inner-Korean border area. We started in the dark to see hundreds of geese and nine Eurasian Spoonbills leaving the small … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores A modest 106 or so species were logged in five part-days in the field in the south-east of the Peninsula during what already feels like the tail end of an extremely short and dry winter. … read more
Dr. Bernhard Seliger and Dr. Hyun-Ah Choi (Birds Korea, Hanns Seidel Foundation) with Ji-Ye Chun and Hyeong-Seo Kim (Hanns Seidel Foundation) In rather inclement weather conditions – cold and snowing half the day – this survey brought overall much reduced … read more