Bird Sightings
Various Sites, January 4th-14th
Organised by Calidris, with Lee Collins flying in from the UK and Machiel Valkenburg flying in from Kazakhstan (where he is CEO of Rubythroat Birding Tours), ten of us visited a range of top birding sites around the country, including … read more
Events
NEASPEC SOM in Mongolia, flagship birds and habitat conservation on the Korean Peninsula
From September 22-23, in Ulaan-Baatar in Mongolia, the Senior Officials Meeting of the Northeast Asian Subregional Programme for Environmental Cooperation (NEASPEC) of the UN-ESCAP took place. For two days, the states of Northeast Asia (Mongolia, China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, … read more
Conservation
More on Busan’s Marvellous Maekdo…
Work continues on our collaborative wetland restoration project at Maekdo Ecopark in the Gangseo District of Busan City, kindly supported by SER and Microsoft, and conducted under Birds Korea’s MOU with the Busan Nakdong River Projects Management Office. Maekdo, although … read more
Field Identification
National First Record of Red-tailed Shrike Lanius phoenicuroides, Gimpo, Republic of Korea
Dr Nial Moores, National Director, Birds Korea, January 25th 2025. Shrikes can be among the easiest species to identify (adult males in breeding plumage, for example), or can be among the most difficult, due to a combination of seasonally different … read more
Public Awareness
제20차 연천 한‧일 습지 포럼 연천에서 열리다
글: 백승광 (새와 생명의 터 임진-한탄강 지역 대표) 2008년, 개발로 빠르게 사라져 가던 습지를 지키기 위해 한국과 일본의 시민사회가 함께 출범시킨 한‧일 습지 네트워크가 올해로 20주년을 맞았습니다. 그리고 그 20주년 워크숍이 올해 연천에서 열렸습니다. 연천은 이미 국제 자연보전 체계 안에서 … read more
블로그
제20차 연천 한‧일 습지 포럼 연천에서 열리다
글: 백승광 (새와 생명의 터 임진-한탄강 지역 대표) 2008년, 개발로 빠르게 사라져 가던 습지를 지키기 위해 한국과 일본의 시민사회가 함께 출범시킨 한‧일 습지 네트워크가 올해로 20주년을 맞았습니다. 그리고 그 20주년 워크숍이 올해 연천에서 열렸습니다. 연천은 이미 국제 자연보전 체계 안에서 … read more
Animal Welfare
SCIENTIFIC TASK FORCE ON AVIAN INFLUENZA AND WILD BIRDS STATEMENT – JULY 2023
Dr Nial Moores, Birds Korea In July, a statement on High Pathogenicity Avian Infuenza or HPAI (long called “Poultry Flu” by Birds Korea) was released by the Scientific Task Force on Avian Influenza and Wild Birds, co-convened under the Convention … read more
Education
Conservation and the Maehyang-ri Tidal Flat: Birdwatching and an interview (2)
Text and two images by Jane Hahn, September 2025 On August 23rd… I stood on the tidal flat at Maehyang-ri, squinting through a scope while the August heat shimmered off the mud. Our task was to count shorebirds. It meant … read more
Projects
A Short Update on Birds Korea’s Activities: 2025-2026
Birds Korea is a small, independent and specialized NGO that is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats in Korea and the wider Yellow Sea Ecoregion. We conduct targeted research in order to develop plans and designs that … read more