White-naped Crane news from China
News on White-naped Cranes from Dr. Mo Xunqiang and Dr. Jia Yifei in China. Two White-naped Cranes with PTT trackers were found in a buckwheat field near Dugushanzi Village, Duolun County, China, among 131 other White-naped Cranes and 8 Common Cranes on 5 April 2015. In addition, more than 300 White-naped Cranes and 400 Common […]
Continue readingBirdwatching in Cheonsu Bay, Seosan, South Korea
Nine staff from the EAAFP Secretariat Office took a day off school, meeting up with Mr. Cho Heungsang from Seosan Birdland, to visit Cheonsu Bay (Flyway Network Site 046) on 3 April, hoping to see Hooded Cranes before they left on their northward migration. We were lucky to see about 180 Hooded Cranes, many giving […]
Continue reading4대강사업 뒤 흑두루미 북상 경로 바뀌었다
김기범 기자 holjjak@kyunghyang.com 경향신문, 2015년 4월 2일 ㆍ주된 경로 낙동강유역 습지 훼손… 체류 개체수 격감 ㆍ순천만·천수만 등 서해안지역서 관찰된 숫자는 급증 낙동강 습지에서 쉬어가던 멸종위기종 흑두루미의 북상 경로가 4대강사업 후 천수만·순천만 등 서해안으로 바뀌었다는 분석이 나왔다. 일본에서 한국을 거쳐 시베리아·몽골로 가는 흑두루미의 북상 길을 4대강사업이 바꾼 것이다. 한국물새네트워크와 김신환 동물병원의 모니터링 결과 올해 3월 충남 […]
Continue readingA translocated hand-reared Short-tailed Albatross is confirmed breeding successfully in Japan’s Ogasawara Islands
John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 27 March 2015 In May last year a Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus chick was found on Nakodojima Island, five kilometres south of Mukojima Island in Japan’s Ogasawara Islands where a translocation project (70 chicks over the four years 2007-2011) was undertaken, but it was not possible to identify the parent birds (click here). In […]
Continue readingRelevant Scientific Articles updated in Mar 2015
If you need full scientific articles, please contact Dr Judit Szabo, the science officer. ANATIDAE Guillemain, M., M. Poisbleau, L. Denonfoux, M. Lepley, C. Moreau, G. Massez, G. Leray, A. Caizergues, C. Arzel, D. Rodrigues, and H. Fritz. 2007. Multiple tests of the effect of nasal saddles on dabbling ducks: combining field and aviary […]
Continue readingThe New Dove of Peace
John MacKinnon The dove of peace is still white and still carries an olive branch but it is rather large and has a curious long spoon-shaped bill! The Black-faced Spoonbill Platalea minor is one of the world’s most endangered bird species. A few years ago there were only a few hundred surviving but thanks to […]
Continue reading10,000 Relict Gulls
by Terry Townshend It was as recently as 1970 that RELICT GULL (Larus relictus, ??) was confirmed as a valid species. Before that it was thought to be either an eastern race of Mediterranean Gull (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus) or a hybrid between Brown-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus) and Pallas’s Gull (Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus)! Since its rather late acceptance into the global ornithological fold […]
Continue readingPlanning Invisible Landscapes: Making Invisible Tidal Flat Landscapes Visible for Future Sustainability
???????? Dr. Hiromi Yamashita of the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) visited EAAFP Secretariat in the first week of March 2015 and gave an open lecture titled ‘Planning Invisible Landscapes: Making Invisible Tidal Flat Landscapes Visible for Future Sustainability‘ at G-Tower in Songdo, Incheon, South Korea, on March 6th. Around 20 people interested in tidal flats, wetlands and […]
Continue readingChinese Ambassador farewells godwits
Friday, 20 March, 2015 The Chinese Ambassador to New Zealand visited the Pukorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre on the Firth of Thames today (Friday March 20) to watch bar-tailed godwits and red knots that are flying to China on the way to their breeding grounds in Alaska and Siberia. Ambassador Wang Lutong watched the godwits and […]
Continue reading세계적 멸종위기 저어새, 인천이 책임진다
조영근 인천시 환경녹지국장 한국 철새는 겨울새 112종, 여름새 64종, 봄 ·가을 나그네새 90종 등 모두 266종이나 된다. 인천은 지리적으로 동아시아-대양주 철새 이동경로 상 중앙에 위치해 있고 송도와 강화도, 영종도 등 광활한 갯벌이 분포하고 있어 풍부한 생물다양성과 국제적으로 희귀 조류 서식지로서 매우 높은 가치를 갖고 있다. 그래서 호주를 포함한 남반구와 홍콩, 대만 등 동남아시아 이동성 철새들이 […]
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