Rarity Reports

May 2002

• Pomarine Skua - South Korea's first documented record
  A short note with image of Korea's first documented Pomarine Skua.

August 2002

• Sooty Tern in the Nakdong
  A short note with 1 image of a Sooty Tern found moribund in the Nakdong River.

• Sooty Shearwater - South Korea's first record
  A short note on Korea's first Sooty Shearwater.

September 2002

• Rose-coloured Starling - South Korea's first record.
  A short note detailing a juvenile Rose-coloured Starling on Eocheong Island. 2 images of birds seen in the UK.

October 2002

• The Long-tailed Shrike in South Korea.
  An article with 4 images on the status of Long-tailed Shrike after the ocurrence of three together on Gageo Do in October 2002.

• A record of Collared Dove: Tim Allison
  A short note on perhaps the first record of Collared Dove in South Korea for 10 years.

• Chinese Bulbul on Eocheong Island - South Korea's first record.
  A short note on Korea's first Chinese Bulbul - with four images.

November 2002

• Observations of species not listed in Lee, Koo, and Park.
  A major paper by Nial Moores detailing sightings of 28 species not listed in "A Field Guide to the Birds of Korea".

December 2002

• Great Black-headed Gull - South Korea's first documented record.
  An article with 2 images detailing the finding and description of Korea's first documented Great Black-headed Gull.

Jan 2003

• A Review of the Birding Year 2002
  Hundreds of records with links to detailed descriptions.

February 2003

• White-crowned Sparrow - South Korea's first documented record.
  An article with 2 images looking at the finding of Korea's first White-crowned Sparrow.

March 2003

• Red-crested Pochard - status and records in South Korea.
  A short article with 3 images.

April 2003

• Great Black-headed Gull - South Korea's second documented record.
  A photo-feature with 6 images of Korea's second documented Great Black-headed Gull.

• Great Black-headed Gull - South Korea's third documented record.
  A short note with 1 image detailing the finding and description of Korea's third documented Great Black-headed Gull.

• Bar-headed Goose - South Korea's first documented record.
  A short note with 1 image (plus images of Swan Geese) on the finding of Korea's first Bar-headed Goose.

• Northern House Martin - South Korea's first documented record.
  A note with 5 images (plus 3 images of Asian House Martin) on the finding of Korea's first documented Northern House Martin.

• Red-breasted Flycatcher - South Korea's first documented record?.
  A note with five images detailing the identification of a presumed Red-breasted Flycatcher - another first record?

May 2003

• Black-headed Bunting - South Korea's second record.
  A note with five images, and discussion of ageing.

• Drongo Records in 2003.
  A note with images of all three species.

• Ferruginous Flycatcher - South Korea's third record.
  A note with five images.

• Chinese (Song) Thrush - South Korea's first record.
  A discussion with two images.

• Isabelline Wheatear - South Korea's first record.
  A discussion with four images of Isabelline, and four of a female Northern for comparison.

Jan 2004

• A Review of the Birding Year 2003
  Hundreds of records and 26 of the best rarity images of the year.

Mar 2004

• The Scaly-breasted Munia in South Korea .
  An article looking at last year's first records.

• Skuas/Jaegers in Korean waters
  A status review of the 4 taxa recorded so far.

May 2004

• Lesser White-fronted Goose
  Records of Lesser White-fronted Goose winter 2003/04

June2004

• 2004 Migratory bird records from Hong and Daeheuksan Islands - records from Park Jong-Gil.
  

August 2004

• Lesser Frigatebird
  Lesser Frigatebird digi-scoped from Socheong (13 images)

• Great Frigatebird - first record for South Korea.
  Korea's first record, found exhausted on a breakwater on Jeju Island (2 images)

• Aleutian Tern - first record for South Korea.
  Korea's first record (placed in Category 2), seen from the Socheong - Incheon Ferry

September 2004

• New Birds for the DPRK.
  An article by Will Duckworth detailing records of eight bird taxa new to DPR Korea.

• Red-backed Shrike - first record for South Korea.
  A 1st winter found and photographed by Park Jong-gil on Hong Island (7 images)

• Rose-coloured Starling - second record for South Korea.
  A juvenile found and photographed by Park Jong-gil on Hong Island (2 images)

November 2004

• Siberian White Crane.
  A short posting with four images of a bird first seen at Seosan then refound the next day on Heuksan Island.

• Water Pipits.
  A short posting with images of 2 Water Pipits seen in November 2004 and a review of the previous records.

October 2005

• Yellow-bellied Tit.
  A Yellow-bellied Tit was found on Socheong Island, 22 October 2005

December 2008

• Lesser Black-backed Gull.
  A Lesser Black-backed Gull was found on Yubu Island in the Geum Estuary, on December 31, 2008