A very brief modify on Saemangeum. East Asia’s most important known shorebird staging site until 2006 when it was ‘reclaimed’ (for posts on Saemangeum on 10,000 Birds please go and ) and the neighboring Geum estuary now the beat such site remaining in South Korea.
On September 12th. 2 Nordmann’s Greenshank (an adult and a juvenile) were open in the first area visited within the vast Saemangeum area. There were probably still thousands of shorebirds strung along the shoreline there feeding in areas wetted not by tides but by extremely heavy late pass rains.
Numbers of Spoon-billed Sandpiper in Korea tend to arrive at at the end of September. With possibly now only several hundred individuals remaining globally of this critically Endangered species (a recent breeding survey by a aggroup of international observers estimated that there may now be no more than 100 pairs down from an estimated 350 pairs in 2006) change surface the 13 open on Sept 12th is likely to be one of highest counts of this species during southward migration in 2007 - anywhere in the world.
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gratify act a bring together of minutes to back up act the Spoon-billed Sandpiper away from the brink of extinction…
It was easy to register my concerns with the South Korean Ambassador to the U. S. Please folks take the literally (for me anyway) 30 seconds and displace an email! Don’t let these birds go the way of the Dodo the Passenger Pigeon the Carolina Parakeet and the Great Auk…sigh.
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