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| Hopefully this habitat will remain relatively undisturbed |
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| female Black Paradise Flycatcher (Japanese Paradise Flycatcher)
Terpsiphone atrocaudata |
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female Black Paradise Flycatcher (Japanese Paradise Flycatcher)
Terpsiphone atrocaudata
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female Black Paradise Flycatcher (Japanese Paradise Flycatcher)
Terpsiphone atrocaudata
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| male Black Paradise Flycatcher (Japanese Paradise Flycatcher)
Terpsiphone atrocaudata |
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| male Black Paradise Flycatcher (Japanese Paradise Flycatcher) Terpsiphone atrocaudata |
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Common Pheasant Phasianus colchicus chick
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Pacific Reef Egret Egretta sacra
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| Yellow-rumped
Flycatcher Ficedula zanthopygia |
Bird news from
Matt Poll and Mike Balfour
Jeju Island, June 23, 2013
It is great to be
back on Jeju, although a lot of construction/destruction has been going on over
the past two years. At a site on Halla’s
southern slope formerly home to Fairy Pitta, noisy construction to widen a path
for ‘Olle trail’ hikers, coupled with an idiotic speaker blaring music in a
once peaceful forest were the only sounds heard today. Nearby, thankfully there remains a quiet
corner of habitat still productive for Japanese
Paradise Flycatcher, with two males seen squabbling, while a female was
quite confiding. It came to within ten feet
of us, calmly watching the watchers for several amazing minutes. Also seen in this area were a female Yellow-rumped Flycatcher, a noisy Peregrine Falcon, Yellow-throated Bunting, plentiful Japanese White-eye and Grey-capped
Greenfinch, several Lesser Cuckoo,
a White Wagtail, Long-tailed Tits, and several
comically clumsy Common Pheasant
chicks.
Back in Seogwipo’s harbour,
a stately Pacific
Reef Egret stalked prey
surprisingly close to a large number of tourists.
