Birds and I

Storks are natural monuments No. 199 and are a rare bird with only 2,500 left in the world as the first class of endangered wild animals. Wild storks, which used to be resident birds in Korea, last disappeared in 1994, and now some individuals visit Korea from Amur, Russia for winter. Yesan-gun has returned storks to nature every year for the safe natural settlement of storks since September 201..

These are scenes of a juvenile black stork gliding.

This species occurs over a large native range. It is widespread in Europe, Asia and Africa, as well as occasionally reaching the east coast of North America.

The eastern buzzard or Japanese buzzard is a medium to large bird of prey that is sometimes considered a subspecies of the widespread common buzzard (Buteo buteo).  It is native to East Asia and some parts of Russia and South Asia, with some birds wintering in Southeast Asia.

It is native to eastern Asia where it is a common and well-known bird in much of its range.The breeding range covers central and north-east China, Korea, Japan and south-east Siberia.

The red-crowned crane is a large East Asian crane among the rarest cranes in the world. It is known in some areas as a symbol of good luck, longevity, and loyalty.

The long-billed plover can be found in China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, and South Korea.A global population survey in 2016 assessed the long-billed plover as a species of least concern on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List.

It winters in the Philippines, Borneo and Sulawesi and in small numbers in China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan and the U.S.A.It breeds in eastern Siberia to northern Japan, Kamchatka Peninsula and northern Kuril Islands. Its habitat is forests near water and scrubwoods. The crown, nape, lores and eye-stripe are greyish brown.

This bird breeds in small colonies in heavily vegetated areas of freshwater lakes across Europe, much of Asia down to New Guinea, and most of Africa. The little grebe is an excellent swimmer and diver and pursues its fish and aquatic invertebrate prey underwater.

It is a common winter visitor in Korea, and it is a common passage migrant.