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Location 서천--유부도(Seocheon--Yubu-do(island))
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Owner Nial Moores

Effort

Protocol:  Traveling
  • Observers:  1
  • Distance:  5 km

Checklist Comments

Tide heights: 705 at 02:50AM and HT of 630 cm at 14:57/. Oppressively hot (33c?) and humid (c75-80%?), and oddly people-less out on the flats (zero shellfishers - why?? - and the only ground-based disturbance being 3 villagers tractoring along the beach to collect garbage for 20 minutes). Some species counted properly; a few less well. Also observations of planes flying near and over this World Heritage Site. Fighter planes started engines at about 835 and flew multiple patrols - most above 600m (with very steep take off), causing painfully loud noise three times and background noise for about 3 hours. In addition two all-white large planes also flew out , climbing steeply over the Geum River. Birds were flushed by planes within 1km of me at least 3 times - and at other times you could see many roosting birds looking up at the sky and following the flight path - no doubt wary because of a hunting peregrine.

Totals

48
Species Observed
+1 other taxa, 23,068 individuals

Observations

  1. Common Shelduck

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    large, mostly white duck with dark head and dark patterning.

  2. Eastern Spot-billed Duck

    Number observed:  2

  3. Oriental Turtle-Dove

    Number observed:  2

  4. Eurasian Oystercatcher (Far Eastern)

    Number observed:  1840

    Details

    counted in 10s in a single scan. More birds to NE not countable in heat haze. Maybe 10-20% (very approx.) birds of the year.

  5. Black-bellied Plover

    Number observed:  25

    Details

    Approx. Oddly low numbers

  6. Pacific Golden-Plover

    Number observed:  7

  7. Siberian Sand-Plover

    Number observed:  4100

    Details

    Counted in 10s in single scan. Likely a few hundred or more missed. Only one juvenile seen.

  8. Greater Sand-Plover

    Number observed:  5

  9. Kentish Plover

    Number observed:  4200

    Details

    Counted in 10s in one scan. Likely many hundreds missed. Birds showed bewildering variation in upperpart tone (grey-brown to rusty), loral markings (absent to complete), breast patches (continuous to very restricted) . None seemed to fulfil all the features expected of White-faced (like several did a few years back).

  10. Whimbrel (Siberian)

    Number observed:  5

    Details

    Just occasional fly overs)

  11. Far Eastern Curlew

    Number observed:  600

    Details

    Most roosted out on Daecheong

  12. Eurasian Curlew

    Number observed:  450

    Details

    Present early morning; after almost absent

  13. Bar-tailed Godwit (Siberian)

    Number observed:  300

    Details

    about a dozen juveniles

  14. Terek Sandpiper

    Number observed:  250

    Details

    approx.

  15. Common Sandpiper

    Number observed:  1

  16. Gray-tailed Tattler

    Number observed:  15

    Details

    3-5 jjs

  17. Wood Sandpiper

    Number observed:  50

    Details

    Very approx. c 10 seen on the flats; but calls heard frequently - perhaps overflying flocks?

  18. Common Redshank

    Number observed:  15

  19. Nordmann's Greenshank

    Number observed:  1

  20. Common Greenshank

    Number observed:  80

  21. Ruddy Turnstone

    Number observed:  15

    Details

    approx.

  22. Great Knot

    Number observed:  1100

  23. Red Knot

    Number observed:  1

  24. Broad-billed Sandpiper

    Number observed:  700

    Details

    700 counted in once scan in 5s when the flock was flushed by a Peregrine. Perhaps no more than 50- 100 missed, as the species seemed quite concentrated on the incoming tide.

  25. Curlew Sandpiper

    Number observed:  1

  26. Red-necked Stint

    Number observed:  1500

    Details

    Very approx. Multiple counts. Species very widespread but no really big concentrations, with most mixed in with Dunlin and KP flocks.

  27. Spoon-billed Sandpiper

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    Post-br adult; seen quite distantly, and all the birds flushed by a Peregrine as I walking toward the area.

  28. Sanderling

    Number observed:  210

  29. Dunlin

    Number observed:  7500

    Details

    Approx.

  30. Little Stint

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    Post-br ad. Long delicate bill; small blob head and hunchback; black centres to some of remaining wing coverts; coarsely streaked breast sides; "double super" etc

  31. Saunders's Gull

    Number observed:  3

  32. Little Tern

    Number observed:  3

  33. Great Cormorant (Eurasian)

    Number observed:  2

  34. Black-faced Spoonbill

    Number observed:  30

    Details

    approx

  35. Black-crowned Night Heron

    Number observed:  1

  36. Chinese Egret

    Number observed:  5

  37. Little Egret (Western)

    Number observed:  15

  38. Great Egret

    Number observed:  8

  39. Gray Heron

    Number observed:  5

  40. Peregrine Falcon

    Number observed:  1

  41. shrike sp.

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    heard only. Sounded like a Brown.

  42. Azure-winged Magpie

    Number observed:  2

  43. Large-billed Crow (Large-billed)

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    Heard only. ID presumed. Call sounded a little odd to my heat-befuddled brain!

  44. Barn Swallow

    Number observed:  1

  45. Vinous-throated Parrotbill

    Number observed:  3

  46. Eurasian Tree Sparrow

    Number observed:  2

  47. Gray Wagtail

    Number observed:  1

  48. Eastern Yellow Wagtail

    Number observed:  5

  49. White Wagtail

    Number observed:  1