Nial Moores PhD, Director, Birds Korea, December 20th The Scaly-sided Merganser Mergus squamatus is a globally Endangered, exquisitely-patterned and typically shy duck. In winter, it is most often found in small flocks on fast-flowing and relatively undisturbed stretches of … read more
Bird News from Robin Newlin and Andreas Kim As part of the continuing Scaly-sided Merganser survey, we visited a pretty stretch of river near Naju and found an encouraging 13 Scaly-sided Mergansers, an equivalent number of Common Mergansers, 82 Eastern Spot-billed Ducks, 12 Common … read more
Birds Korea Scaly-sided Merganser Winter Monitoring Project Jason Loghry, November 21, 2013 We’re very happy to report 36 Scaly-sided Mergansers (as well as 67 Mandarin Duck) were observed on November 16, as part of an “initial” survey kick-starting this winter’s … read more
Nial Moores PhD, Birds Korea, March 13th 2013 Ms. Kim Minseon, Program Officer of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP), has today posted a series of excellent notes and articles on the globally Endangered Scaly-sided Merganser Mergus squamatus. This includes … read more
Bird news from Subhojit Chakladar and Bradlee Sulentic As a part of our effort to understand and count Scaly-sided Mergansers, we have been surveying a particular stretch of the river extending over several tens of kilometers. Starting early in the … read more
Scaly-sided Merganser is one of my favourite species – and also one of Birds Korea’s conservation priorities (see blog post on winter survey). I was a bit disturbed therefore when visiting the awesome Birding Beijing blog recently to read Terry … read more
As described in the Birds Korea Preliminary Report on the “Anticipated Impacts of the Four Rivers Project on Waterbirds” published in 2010, the Scaly-sided Merganser Mergus squamatus is a globally Endangered and declining species that is ecologically dependent on rivers. … read more
Bird News from Nial Moores and Park Meena Gyeongju and Guryongpo Peninsula, February 3rd Day One of a five-day survey of sites that have held Scaly-sided Merganser Mergus squamatus found a lot of ongoing construction, and no scalies. Happily, a … read more
A short podcast interview discussing Scaly-sided Mergansers Mergus squamatus and the work that Birds Korea is doing to discover more about the status of this Endangered and beautiful duck in the Republic of Korea is now available. The interview is … read more
In the 2010/2011 winter, Birds Korea conducted research on the distribution and habitat use of Scaly-sided Merganser on two rivers in the southeast of the ROK. This research recorded a peak count of 56 Scaly-sided Merganser on one main river … read more