Checklist

1

Hair-crested Drongo

Dicrurus hottentottus

바람까마귀

LC

NA

0

1

White-crowned Sparrow

Zonotrichia leucophrys

흰정수리북미멧새

LC

NA

0

V2

Archive

IRR

Two records: Busan and Taean

1

Eurasian Bullfinch

Pyrrhula pyrrhula

멋쟁이새

LC

NA

0

Park et al. (2025) lists cassinii as one of four subspecies recorded in Korea, with the most often cited record in the ROK one photographed in Seosan in 2007, reproduced in Moores (2012 - "Bullfinches in the ROK: From Pink to Grey and Much Between!", Birds Korea blogpost https://www.birdskoreablog.org/?p=6968) and in the fieldguide, "Identification Guide to Birds of Korea", by Park (2014). This individual, however, showed a grey wingbar when cassini is supposed to show a white wing bar (see drawing of cassinii in Birds of the World, and images of birds from Kamchatka in https://uk.inaturalist.org/taxa/729683-Pyrrhula-pyrrhula-cassinii/browse_photos). This individual is therefore better assigned to the highly variable rosacea, which is perhaps a hybrid swarm (?) resulting from meeting of griseiventris and nominate? The Birds of the World's text is very confusing : "Nominate race intergrades over wide areas with europaea in SC Europe and with cassinii and griseiventris in E Asia, populations of large and small individuals merging in somewhat clinal manner; several additional races proposed on basis of small differences in plumage tones of face, upperparts and underparts, and wing measurements, e.g. coccinea (described from Baden, in SW Germany), germanica (Thuringia, in EC Germany) and paphlagoniae (near Bolu, in NW Turkey), all synonymized with nominate, kurilensis (Kuril Is) with cassinii, and rosacea (from Yokohama, in E Honshu, in Japan) and exorientis (lower R Amur) treated as synonyms of griseiventris. " Although not listed in Birds of the World, Avilist (2025) recognises rosacea, but limits its range to Sakhalin and gives range of cassini as "Kamchatka Peninsula, Paramušir Island (northern Kurils), and Sea of Okhotsk coast".

1

Flesh-footed Shearwater

Ardenna carneipes

붉은발슴새

NT

NA

0

몽골왕눈물떼새

1

Grey-faced Buzzard

Butastur indicus

왕새매

LC

LC

1

1

Common Moorhen

Gallinula chloropus

쇠물닭

LC

NA

1

1

Spotted Dove

Spilopelia chinensis

목점박이비둘기

LC

NA

0

V2

1

Parasitic Jaeger

Stercorarius parasiticus

북극도둑갈매기

LC

NA

0

검은멧새

1

Eastern Buzzard

Buteo japonicus

말똥가리

LC

LC

0

4 / REJ

Sabine's Gull

Xema sabini

목테갈매기

LC

NA

4 / REJ

Listed by Park et al. (2025). However, only claim is a sight record in Pohang: "an adult observed over a pool at Pohang Kyungsang-pukdo on 30 August 1970 during an easterly gale" by Gore, published in Gore & Won 1971 (with no indication of any additional publication). Lack of description of whether in breeding or non-breeding plumage or of what details were observed in very windy conditions raises the possibility that this might instead have been a very worn Black-tailed Gull, at which times worn birds often fly oddly, and look to have white, heavily notched tails, and an upperwing pattern recalling Sabine's. Such birds are rare but not exceptional in late August / early September, and access to the coast (and thereby experience of such individuals) was very limited for observers at that time, who also likely did not have very good optics. During correspondence with Gore in about 2010, I asked him details of this observation after which he did not return mails. Although this record could be accurate, details are insufficient to include in the national list, especially as this species remains extremely rare in East Asia. There are only two records listed by https://kantorilode.weebly.com/annotated-checklist-of-the-birds-of-japan.html for Japan - both along the pacific coast in Nov 1909 and Nov 1975. On eBird, there is also one recent mid-September record from Shanghai, and several observations from Taiwan in the first half of the year.

1

Manchurian Bush Warbler

Horornis canturians

휘파람새

LC

NA

1

1

Little Curlew

Numenius minutus

쇠부리도요

LC

NA

0

1

Japanese Waxwing

Bombycilla japonica

홍여새

NT

NT

0

쇠딱다구리

1

Malayan Night Heron

Gorsachius melanolophus

푸른눈테해오라기

LC

NA

0

V2

1

Oriental Pratincole

Glareola maldivarum

제비물떼새

LC

NA

1

P5, S5

archive

INC

Nesting confirmed in Haenam, 2022; very likely in Saemangeum in 2024, where up to 40 individuals present; presence of young birds in Seosan and perhaps Hwaseong

1

Greater Crested Tern

Thalasseus bergii

큰제비갈매기

LC

NA

0

흰얼굴기러기

LC

NA

0

REVIEW

1

Black-browed Reed Warbler

Acrocephalus bistrigiceps

쇠개개비

LC

NA

3?

1

Greylag Goose

Anser anser

회색기러기

LC

NA

0

V1

Archive

IRR, Inc

Increasingly reported, with 2-4 most years this decade.

1

Black-crowned Night Heron

Nycticorax nycticorax

해오라기

LC

NA

1

1

Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler

Helopsaltes certhiola

북방개개비

LC

NA

0

Park et al. (2025) recognise only 1 subspecies

1

Tristram's Bunting

Emberiza tristrami

흰배멧새

LC

NA

0

3

Western Sandpiper

Calidris mauri

긴부리좀도요

LC

NA

0

V2

5C

Common Myna

Acridotheres tristis

검은머리갈색찌르레기

LC

NA

0

V1

According to Park et al. (2025), now V1: " 2019년 7월 11일 부산 다대포 바닷가의 흰물떼새 둥지 근처에서 까치와 함께 먹이 활동하는 1개체가 처음 관찰되었다(손석준 등 2020). 현재 10회 정도의 관찰 기록만 있다.

2

Beijing Babbler

Rhopophilus pekinensis

꼬리치레

LC

NA

2?

EXT

1

House Swift

Apus nipalensis

쇠칼새

LC

NA

0

시베리아재때까치

1

Sedge Warbler

Acrocephalus schoenobaenus

풀쇠개개비

LC

NA

0

V2

1

Water Pipit

Anthus spinoletta

옅은밭종다리

LC

NA

0

V1/ W5

1

Buff-throated Warbler

Phylloscopus subaffinis

담황턱솔새

LC

NA

0

V2

1

Siberian Pipit

Anthus japonicus

밭종다리

LC

NA

0

becomes montypic

1

Dark-sided Flycatcher

Muscicapa sibirica

솔딱새

LC

NA

0

갈색제비

3

American Golden Plover

Pluvialis dominica

미국검은가슴물떼새

LC

NA

0

V2

1

Common Pochard

Aythya ferina

흰죽지

VU

NA

0

W2, P3

STA

Initial declines suggested by census data could have been influenced by mis-counting in 1999/2000 winter (an outlier). P2 in 2022 seems unsupported.

1

Pomarine Jaeger

Stercorarius pomarinus

넓적꼬리도둑갈매기

LC

NA

0

중대백로

쇠딱다구리

Not recognised by Park et al. (2025) even though seasonally small, dark, highly contrasting Goshawk can be seen along the south coast and on Jeju

1

Long-tailed Rosefinch

Carpodacus sibiricus

긴꼬리홍양진이

LC

NA

0

REJ

Barrow's Goldeneye

Bucephala islandica

북방흰뺨오리

LC

NA

REJ

Listed in Park et al (2025), but insufficient evidence provided as the claim based on a single sight in the Nakdong Estuary given in Won (1993). This record came before knowledge of how to identify these species was well-established (see: http://www.birdskorea.org/Birds/Identification/ID_Notes/BK-ID-Barrows-Goldeneye.shtml). Pattern of vagrancy to East Asia still remains unestablished. Although the species has been recorded in northern Honshu (https://kantorilode.weebly.com/annotated-checklist-of-the-birds-of-japan.html), no record was given in Brazil's 1991 monograph of Birds of Japan, and the only record in East Asia on eBird up to 2025 is in Kamchatka (none in Japan) indicating extreme rarity in this region. While there is a possibility that this species was correctly identified, this seems rather less plausible than e.g., some other species excluded by Park et al. (2025). In the absence of the possibility of any additional evidence, it seems wiser to omit this species from the Korean list rather than to place it in a pending file.

1

Asian Rosy Finch

Leucosticte arctoa

갈색양진이

LC

NA

0

2,5Aii

Crested Ibis

Nipponia nippon

따오기

EN

II

1*

1

Red-breasted Merganser

Mergus serrator

바다비오리

LC

NA

0

W3

STA

1

Rhinoceros Auklet

Cerorhinca monocerata

흰수염바다오리

LC

NA

0

1,5A

Oriental Stork

Ciconia boyciana

황새

EN

I

1

1

Eurasian Coot

Fulica atra

물닭

LC

NA

1

붉은발제비갈매기

1

Scaly-sided Merganser

Mergus squamatus

호사비오리

EN

I

0

P4, W4

STA/ DEC

Trend unlcear. P more numerous than W based on turnover detected at Yeoncheon and observations from Baengnyeong.

1

Sulphur-breasted Warbler

Phylloscopus ricketti

노랑배솔새

LC

NA

0

V2

1

Siberian Rubythroat

Calliope calliope

진홍가슴

LC

NA

1

흰등밭종다리

1

White-breasted Waterhen

Amaurornis phoenicurus

흰배뜸부기

LC

NA

1

1

Oriental Reed Warbler

Acrocephalus orientalis

개개비

LC

NA

1

1

Hume's Leaf Warbler

Phylloscopus humei

연노랑눈썹솔새

LC

NA

0

1

Taiga Flycatcher

Ficedula albicilla

흰꼬리딱새

LC

NA

0

1

Japanese Quail

Coturnix japonica

메추라기

NT

NA

1

P5,W5, SV2

Archives

DEC

Clearly declining (very noticable at sites I visit); scarcely reported on eBird;

1

Crested Honey Buzzard

Pernis ptilorhynchus

벌매

LC

II

1

1

Gull-billed Tern

Gelochelidon nilotica

큰부리제비갈매기

LC

NA

0

1

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Larus fuscus

검은등갈매기

LC

NA

0

1

Smew

Mergellus albellus

흰비오리

LC

NA

0

W 4/ 3

STA

1

Common Starling

Sturnus vulgaris

흰점찌르레기

LC

NA

0

북방민물도요

북방검은머리쑥새

1

Broad-billed Sandpiper

Calidris falcinellus

송곳부리도요

VU

NA

0

1

Tickell's Leaf Warbler

Phylloscopus affinis

노랑배솔새사촌

LC

NA

0

1

Yellow-rumped Flycatcher

Ficedula zanthopygia

흰눈썹황금새

LC

LC

1

Red List status based on Kim Hankyu et al. (2021)

1

Eurasian Wigeon

Mareca penelope

홍머리오리

LC

NA

0

W2, P3, SV1

census

STA?

Following decline, number in mid-winter appears to have recovered. However, decline in number that migrate through suggested. Patterf similar to that suggested by Zhang et al. 2023 in Wildfowl