Birds in Seoul and South Korea

After birdwatching and realizing that we knew NOTHING about the birds here, I decided to put together a mini photo journal to keep track of which ones we have seen and might see!  This will get updated more as the next six months progress! (From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_of_South_Korea - Normally, I would have looked up the list but it didn't include pictures so here is my modified Wiki page! More information about the status of these birds can be found here http://www.birdskorea.org/Birds/Key_Species/BK-KS-Key-Korean-Species.shtml)

Loons

 

• Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata  

Grebes

• Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis  

Albatrosses

• Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus (A) 

Shearwaters and petrels

•  Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus (A)

Storm-Petrels

• Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma monorhis  

Pelicans

• Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus (A)

Boobies and gannets

• Masked Booby Sula dactylatra (A)

• Brown Booby Sula leucogaster (A)

Cormorants

Frigatebirds

Bitterns, herons and egrets 

• Gray Heron Ardea cinerea

Storks

• Black Stork Ciconia nigra (A)

Ibises and spoonbills

•  Black-headed Ibis Threskiornis melanocephalus (A)

Ducks, geese and swans

• Mute Swan Cygnus olor

Osprey

• Osprey Pandion haliaetus

Hawks, kites and eagles

• Black Kite Milvus migrans  

• Steller's Sea-Eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus 

Caracaras and falcons

• Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni (A)  

Grouse

• Hazel Grouse Bonasa bonasia 

Pheasants and partridges

• Japanese Quail Coturnix japonica  

• Ring-necked Pheasant Phasianus colchicus 

Buttonquails

• Yellow-legged Buttonquail Turnix tanki 

Cranes

•   Demoiselle Crane Anthropoides virgo (A)

Rails, crakes, gallinules, and coots

• Swinhoe's Rail Coturnicops exquisitus (A)
• Water Rail Rallus aquaticus
• White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus
• Baillon's Crake Porzana pusilla
• Ruddy-breasted Crake Porzana fusca
• Band-bellied Crake Porzana paykullii (A)
• Watercock Gallicrex cinerea
• Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
• Eurasian Coot Fulica atra

Bustards

• Great Bustard Otis tarda (A)

Jacanas

•  Pheasant-tailed Jacana Hydrophasianus chirurgus (A)

Painted snipe

• Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis

Oystercatchers

• Eurasian Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus

Avocets and stilts

• Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
• Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta (A)

Pratincoles and coursers

• Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum (A)

Plovers and lapwings

• Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus
• Gray-headed Lapwing Vanellus cinereus (A)
• Pacific Golden-Plover Pluvialis fulva
• Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola
• Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula (A)
• Long-billed Plover Charadrius placidus
• Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius
• Snowy Plover Charadrius alexandrinus
• Lesser Sandplover Charadrius mongolus
• Greater Sandplover Charadrius leschenaultii
• Oriental Plover Charadrius veredus (A)

Sandpipers and allies

• Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola
• Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus (A)
• Solitary Snipe Gallinago solitaria
• Latham's Snipe Gallinago hardwickii
• Pintail Snipe Gallinago stenura
• Swinhoe's Snipe Gallinago megala
• Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
• Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus (A)
• Asian Dowitcher Limnodromus semipalmatus (A)
• Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
• Hudsonian Godwit Limosa haemastica (A)
• Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
• Little Curlew Numenius minutus (A)
• Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
• Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
• Far Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis
• Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus
• Common Redshank Tringa totanus
• Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
• Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
• Nordmann's Greenshank Tringa guttifer
• Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca (A)
• Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
• Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
• Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus
• Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
• Gray-tailed Tattler Heterosceles brevipes
• Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
• Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris
• Red Knot Calidris canutus
• Sanderling Calidris alba
• Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis
• Little Stint Calidris minuta (A)
• Temminck's Stint Calidris temminckii
• Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta
• Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
• Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata
• Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea
• Dunlin Calidris alpina
• Spoon-billed Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus
• Broad-billed Sandpiper Limicola falcinellus
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis (A)
• Ruff Philomachus pugnax
• Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor (A)
• Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
• Red Phalarope Phalaropus fulicarius (A)

Skuas and jaegers

• South Polar Skua Stercorarius maccormicki (A)
• Pomarine Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus
• Parasitic Jaeger Stercorarius parasiticus
• Long-tailed Jaeger Stercorarius longicaudus (A)

 

Gulls

• Black-tailed Gull Larus crassirostris
• Mew Gull Larus canus
• Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis (A)
• Glaucous-winged Gull Larus glaucescens
• Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus
• Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides (A)
• Thayer's Gull Larus thayeri (A)
• Heuglin's Gull Larus heuglini
• East Siberian Gull Larus vegae
• American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus (A)
• Great Black-headed Gull Larus ichthyaetus (A)
• Slaty-backed Gull Larus schistisagus
• Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus
• Slender-billed Gull Larus genei (A)
• Saunders's Gull Larus saundersi
• Relict Gull Larus relictus
• Ivory Gull Pagophila eburnea (A)
• Ross's Gull Rhodostethia rosea (A)
• Sabine's Gull Xema sabini (A)
• Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla

Terns

• Gull-billed Tern Sterna nilotica (A)
• Caspian Tern Sterna caspia (A)
• Great Crested Tern Sterna bergii (A)
• Common Tern Sterna hirundo
• Little Tern Sterna albifrons
• Sooty Tern Sterna fuscata (A)
• Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus
• White-winged Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
• Black Tern Chlidonias niger (A)

Auks, Murres, and Puffins

• Common Murre Uria aalge (A)
• Pigeon Guillemot Cepphus columba (A)
• Spectacled Guillemot Cepphus carbo
• Long-billed Murrelet Brachyramphus perdix
• Ancient Murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus
• Japanese Murrelet Synthliboramphus wumizusume (A)
• Whiskered Auklet Aethia pygmaea (A)
• Least Auklet Aethia pusilla (A)
• Rhinoceros Auklet Cerorhinca monocerata

Sandgrouse

• Pallas's Sandgrouse Syrrhaptes paradoxus (A)

Pigeons and doves

• Rock Pigeon Columba livia (I)
• Hill Pigeon Columba rupestris (I)
• Stock Pigeon Columba oenas (A)
• Japanese Wood-Pigeon Columba janthina
• Oriental Turtle-Dove Streptopelia orientalis
• Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto (A)
• Red Collared-Dove Streptopelia tranquebarica (A)
• White-bellied Green Pigeon Treron sieboldii (A)

Cuckoos and anis

• Chestnut-winged Cuckoo Clamator coromandus (A)
• Northern Hawk-Cuckoo Cuculus hyperythrus
• Indian Cuckoo Cuculus micropterus
• Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
• Horsfield's Cuckoo Cuculus horsfieldi
• Lesser Cuckoo Cuculus poliocephalus
• Asian Koel Eudynamys scolopacea (A)

Barn owls

• Australasian Grass-Owl Tyto longimembris (A)

Typical owls

• Collared Scops-Owl Otus lettia
• Oriental Scops-Owl Otus sunia
• Eurasian Eagle-Owl Bubo bubo
• Snowy Owl Bubo scandiacus (A)
• Tawny Owl Strix aluco
• Ural Owl Strix uralensis (A)
• Little Owl Athene noctua (A)
• Long-eared Owl Asio otus (A)
• Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus

 

Nightjars

• Gray Nightjar Caprimulgus indicus

Swifts

• Himalayan Swiftlet Aerodramus brevirostris (A)
• White-throated Needletail Hirundapus caudacutus
• Fork-tailed Swift Apus pacificus
• House Swift Apus nipalensis (A)

Kingfishers

• Common Kingfisher Alcedo atthis
• Ruddy Kingfisher Halcyon coromanda
• Black-capped Kingfisher Halcyon pileata
• Crested Kingfisher Megaceryle lugubris (A)

Typical rollers

• Dollarbird Eurystomus orientalis

Hoopoes

• Hoopoe Upupa epops