Birds and I

The breeding range is the Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin Island, east coast of Russia, and northern Japan. The wintering range is Japan (south of Hokkaido), Korea, eastern China, and Taiwan.

Thousands of cranes have visited Korea since late October, but now they only visit 120 to 150 coastal mudflats near the Demilitarized Zone near Daeseong-dong Freedom Village, Yeoncheon-gun, Gyeonggi-do, and Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do, Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do. It was designated as a natural monument on May 31, 1968, and was designated as a first-class endangered wildlife on May 31, 2012 and is protect..

The white-naped crane breeds in northeastern Mongolia, northeastern China, and adjacent areas of southeastern Russia. Different groups of the birds migrate to winter near the Yangtze River, the Korean Demilitarized Zone, and on Kyūshū in Japan.

The first snow of this winter is falling in the early morning when I'm going to Cheorwon for the Red-crowned Crane shooting. These are pictures of the Crane family taking off.

Among the winter migratory birds coming to Korea, I think these geese are the most visited migratory birds. The water deer running through the vast fields of Cheonsuman Bay is endemic to our country.