Dr. Bernhard Seliger (Hanns Seidel Basis, Birds Korea)
A nice make-up vacation spent in Paju. Sadly, the speedy destruction of the nice rice-field space under Odusan progresses, with development machines in all places constructing an enormous new dyke, presumably for a street (in between two large different roads round a kilometer to the left and proper)…Although it’s tough to say from one go to at a time how this impacts fowl populations, there definitely appears to be fewer and fewer “particular” birds, perhaps apart from Black-faced Spoonbills. It’s tough to see birds like Watercock breeding in such disturbed habitat. And, given that each one timber previously bordering the filth tracks had been lower down to create space for giant development machines, additionally the power to function a migratory route for passerines, to not communicate of serving as a breeding place for stonechats and others, appears to be severely impacted. As soon as the development is completed, who would care to save lots of what nonetheless could be saved of this place as soon as well-known for fowl watching – the Gongneungcheong space – for instance, by a vigorous tree planting effort (and never pine timber, however bushes and timber helpful for birds…)?
Fascinating was a bunch of 5 Mallard flying round within the rice fields – I by no means encountered that earlier than at the moment of 12 months.
Jangneung Royal Tomb, quite the opposite, with outdated timber and teeming with woodpeckers, flycatchers, tits, a Eurasian Hoopoe and different birds, was extraordinarily beautiful and is recommendable, together with the small, secluded rice-field space close to it.
Pic 1: Oriental Reed Warbler Acrocephalus orientalis (© Bernhard Seliger)
Pic 2: Jap Cattle Egret Bulbulcus coromandus (© Bernhard Seliger)
Pic 3: An enormous new road-building undertaking cuts the remaining rice area space into half…all timber and bushes previously bordering the dyke had been lower to make place for heavy equipment (© Bernhard Seliger)
Pic 4: Shock – Mallards Anas platyrhynchos within the rice fields in late Might. (© Bernhard Seliger)
Pic 4a: A more in-depth have a look at the mallards Anas platyrhynchos (© Bernhard Seliger)
Pic 5: Black-naped Oriole Oriolus chinensis (© Bernhard Seliger)
Pic 6: A really untidy-looking younger Nice Noticed Woodpecker Dendrocopos main attempting out his first unbiased climbing (© Bernhard Seliger)
