Posts Tagged ‘birding Korea’

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Pre-Trip Birding Around Incheon | South Korea Birding

Have you ever started a birding tour by getting off of the plane and rushed into a vehicle, sleep-deprived and confused, spending the remainder of the day birding in extreme weather conditions, seeing some amazing birds but not being able to enjoy them properly due to your body being on the verge of shutdown? Well, [...]

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Winter Woodpeckers of Korea – South Korea Birding

Woodpeckers are one of my favourite groups of birds so I was very happy to see six species of them on the 2019 winter tour of South Korea in January, particularly as two of them were among my favourites; the friendly Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker and the impressive Black Woodpecker. Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker is widespread and [...]

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Becoming a Gull-Watcher in Winter | South Korea Birding

To say that gull watching is an acquired taste would be to ignore the fact that many birders never do acquire the taste. However, on two consecutive tours to South Korea many of those accompanying me have started out as skeptics but have quickly found watching large numbers of gulls and a wide variety of [...]

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Winter Wildfowl | South Korea Birding

Having recently returned from leading my third winter birding tour to South Korea I have some time to reflect on different aspects of this excellent trip. While the big draw is to see large numbers of Red-crowned, Hooded & White-naped Cranes, Steller’s Sea Eagle, Relict Gull, Oriental Stork and many other rare and range-restricted East [...]

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Birding Highlights of 2017

Happy New Year! I am looking forward to what I have planned ahead in 2018 with a birding trip starting in Northern Thailand in a few days and a two week trip to Myanmar at the end of the month, but I also looked back to some of my birding highlights of 2017. Birding in [...]

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East Coast Gulls | South Korea Birding

Earlier this week, as part of our winter birding tour of South Korea, we spent a few days travelling down the East coast of this East Asian country, stopping in many harbours and bays to look for seabirds and a number of gull species. The sheer numbers of gulls was mind-blowing, with around 50000 in [...]

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Watching Cranes in the Citizen Controlled Zone | South Korea Birding

One of the highlights of winter birding in South Korea is birding near the DMZ, specifically watching cranes emerge in the morning. On the second day of this year’s South Korea winter birding tour we spent almost the whole day on the South Korea/North Korea border, spending much of our time in the Citizen Controlled Zone, [...]

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