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Checklist
Checklist forms the core of the science-based tool for informing conservation strategies and development plans. Updating the Birds Korea Checklist regularly enables us to understand population trends and priorities for Important Bird Areas.
Checklist 2025
Updated August 2025
The current edition of Birds Korea Checklist exhibits the following key findings:
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eBird Mapping Test
eBird Abundance Data
# | Cat. | English Name | Scientific Name | Korean Name | GCS | NCS | Breeding Status (O=No evidence); 1= Breeding record since 2000; 2=Breeding record pre-2000; 3=Suspected breeding since 2000 | Abundance Code | Source | Population Trend | Notes to help with assessment | Profile Page (click image) |
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1 | Demoiselle Crane | Grus virgo | 쇠재두루미 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | Archive | IRR | Maybe 5-6 records? | ||
1 | Japanese Thrush | Turdus cardis | 검은지빠귀 | LC | NA | 0 | ||||||
1 | Siberian Stonechat | Saxicola maurus | 검은딱새 | NR | NA | 1 | ||||||
1 | Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | 연노랑솔새 | LC | NA | 0 | ||||||
1 | Eastern Spot-billed Duck | Anas zonorhyncha | 흰뺨검둥오리 | LC | NA | 1 | W1 /2, R2 | census/ archives | STA | Winter census 5 yr geom mean(2019-2023) of 98,914 and certainly some missed. Stable or slight increase after initial decline 1999-2003. | ||
붉은배동고비 | ||||||||||||
1 | Yellow-browed Bunting | Emberiza chrysophrys | 노랑눈썹멧새 | LC | NA | 0 | ||||||
1 | Glaucous Gull | Larus hyperboreus | 흰갈매기 | LC | NA | 0 | ||||||
1 | Bar-headed Goose | Anser indicus | 줄기러기 | LC | NA | 0 | V1 | Archive | IRR, Inc | Currently near annual after the first record in March 2003. Most records are during main migration periods along the west coast, with <5 records along or near to the south coast, including one inland in June. One summer record on Heuksan (2024?) | ||
1 | Saker Falcon | Falco cherrug | 헨다손매 | EN | NA | 0 | V1 | |||||
R1A | Canada Goose | Branta canadensis | 큰캐나다기러기 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | Archives | NA | |||
사할린재때까치 | ||||||||||||
1 | Masked Booby | Sula dactylatra | 푸른얼굴얼가니새 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | |||||
1 | American Wigeon | Mareca americana | 아메리카홍머리오리 | LC | NA | 0 | WV1 | archives | NA | |||
1 | Wood Warbler | Phylloscopus sibilatrix | 노랑턱솔새 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | |||||
1 | Black-faced Bunting | Emberiza spodocephala | 촉새 | LC | NA | 1 | P1/ P2, W4, SV2 | Archive | DEC | Major decline suggested by peak counts of grounded individuals | ||
1 | Red Knot | Calidris canutus | 붉은가슴도요 | NT | NA | 0 | Archive, SS | DEC | Recent record high counts (i.e, 12,000-14,000 at Yubu on May 8th 2020, reported by text by HJM by the observer) appear to indicate a relocation within the Yellow Sea and suggest Red-Listing unreasonable unless one-off. Revised from P4 to P3 as likely to be(come) a regular phenomenon due to habitat loss in Chinese part of Yellow Sea. P2 could be triggered if similar high counts are shown to be regular (3-5 yrs or so) | |||
3 | Himalayan Cuckoo | Cuculus saturatus | 남방벙어리뻐꾸기 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | Archive | IRR | still only one record? | ||
1 | Grey-backed Shrike | Lanius tephronotus | 회색등때까치 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | two records, both Baengnyeong | ||||
1 | Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | 붉은가슴밭종다리 | LC | NA | 0 | ||||||
쇠검은머리쑥새 | ||||||||||||
흰이마알락할미새 | ||||||||||||
1 | Green-winged Teal | Anas crecca | 쇠오리 | LC | NA | 0 | W2, SV1 | STA | Lumped back into Eurasian. Still probably fewer than 10 records? Esp. as some might refer to hybrids (at least one such bird documented) | |||
1 | Red-billed Starling | Spodiopsar sericeus | 붉은부리찌르레기 | LC | NA | 1 | ||||||
1 | Cinnamon Bittern | Botaurus cinnamomeus | 열대덤불해오라기 | LC | NA | 0 | ||||||
1 | Tundra Bean Goose | Anser serrirostris | 큰기러기 | NR | II | 0 | P1, W1 | Census, Archives | INC | Probably >300,000 during southward migration; 10 yr mean of 121,000 (but including Taiga Bean) | ||
1 | Common Redstart | Phoenicurus phoenicurus | 서양딱새 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | Eocheong 2024 | ||||
1 | Black Wood Pigeon | Columba janthina | 흑비둘기 | LC | II | 1 | ||||||
1 | Japanese Robin | Larvivora akahige | 붉은가슴울새 | LC | NA | 0 | Now monotypic | |||||
노랑멧새 | ||||||||||||
1 | Baer's Pochard | Aythya baeri | 붉은가슴흰죽지 | CR | II | 0 | WV1 | |||||
큰유리새 | ||||||||||||
1 | Little Owl | Athene noctua | 금눈쇠올빼미 | LC | NA | 1 | ||||||
1 | Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | 붉은발얼가니새 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | |||||
1 | Manchurian Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus tangorum | 우수리개개비 | VU | NA | 0 | V2 or V1 | Park et al (2025) ignore multiple earlier records | ||||
1 | Mandarin Duck | Aix galericulata | 원앙 | LC | LC | 1 | P3, W3, R3 | Census, Archives | DEC | Pattern unclear, but likely declining. Listed Amber in 2022 on basis of analysis in 2014 followed by some recovery; but in last 2 winters, another major decline. Highest single Census count 2655 in January 2011; and species appears to have declined markedly on Jeju especially | ||
1 | Paddyfield Warbler | Acrocephalus agricola | 북방쇠개개비 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | perhaps 4 records: banded in April 2009? On Heuksan; sight record on Socheong autumn same year; Gangneung? 2024?; and overwintering in Busan January 2025 | ||||
대륙갈색제비 | From Park et al. (2025): "2021년 8월 16일부터 9월 5일까지 경기 화성 호곡리 인근 화성호 간척지에서 5차례에 걸쳐
43개체의 갈색제비를 포획하여 유전자를 분석한 결과, 32개체는 러시아 극동지역에 서식하는
아종 ijimae, 11개체는 중앙아시아 일대에서 서식하는 아종
riparia로 나타났다(박종길 등 2023)." | |||||||||||
1 | Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | 논병아리 | LC | NA | 1 | ||||||
1 | Little Ringed Plover | Thinornis dubius | 꼬마물떼새 | LC | NA | 1 | ||||||
1 | Rough-legged Buzzard | Buteo lagopus | 털발말똥가리 | LC | NT | 0 | ||||||
1 | Yellow Bunting | Emberiza sulphurata | 무당새 | LC | II | 0 | P4 / P5 | |||||
1 | Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | 아메리카메추라기도요 | LC | NA | 0 | ||||||
검은등갈매기 | ||||||||||||
1 | Golden-crowned Sparrow | Zonotrichia atricapilla | 노랑정수리북미멧새 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | Archive | IRR | Two or three records | ||
1 | Pine Grosbeak | Pinicola enucleator | 솔양진이 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | One record: Ulleung | ||||
솔양진이 | Park et al. (2025) list sakhalinensis. There is insufficient data on the specimen described in Tomek (2001) of the bill (" bill 15.5") of the bird collected decades earlier in northernmost provinces of DPRK to determine identity to subspecies. Only ROK record is of one photographed by fixed camera on Tok Do. Image clear enough to ID to species but not to subspecies. Alleged breeding in Baekdu Massif (ref) weakens argument for simply assigning record to one or another subspecies. | |||||||||||
1 | Blue-billed White Tern | Gygis candida | 흰제비갈매기 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | Need to check details of specimen as now split into three species, contra e.g., Seabirds. | ||||
1 | Grey Bunting | Emberiza variabilis | 검은멧새 | LC | NA | 0 | P5, W5 | Archive | STA | Based primarily on Jeju, Geoje, Busan | ||
1 | Horned Grebe | Podiceps auritus | 귀뿔논병아리 | VU | NA | 0 | ||||||
1 | Ruff | Calidris pugnax | 목도리도요 | LC | NA | 0 | ||||||
1 | Pied Harrier | Circus melanoleucos | 알락개구리매 | LC | II | 1 | ||||||
1 | Eurasian Nuthatch | Sitta europaea | 동고비 | LC | NA | 1 | ||||||
1 | Chestnut-eared Bunting | Emberiza fucata | 붉은뺨멧새 | LC | LC | 1 | ||||||
1 | Oriental Magpie | Pica serica | 까치 | NR | NA | 1 | Recent declines suggested by Kim et al. (2021) and anecdotally too; clearly in decline in many parts of the country | |||||
1 | Chestnut Bunting | Emberiza rutila | 꼬까참새 | LC | NA | 0 | P3, WV2 | Archive | DEC | Massive decline in peak counts continuing. Choi et al (2020) methodology very uneven and commentary misleading: unlikely to capture recent declines. Comparison between banding effort does not distinguish between the location of banding sites. Inland sites used to be prefered; now banding is concentrated on islands, including Socheong where some migratory species are found at much higher density than on the mainland. "Historic" disappearance from incland sites; massive recent fall on island sites = RED ( cf Choi C-Y, Nam H-Y, Kim H-K, Park S-Y,
Park J-G (2020) Changes in Emberiza bunting communities and populations spanning 100 years in Korea. PLoS ONE 15(5): e0233121. https://doi. org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233121 | ||
1 | Emperor Goose | Anser canagicus | 흰머리기러기 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | Archive | Two records; x and y | |||
1 | Eurasian Skylark | Alauda arvensis | 종 다리 | LC | LC | 1 | ||||||
1 | Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | 제비 | LC | NA | 1 | Park et al. (2025) include only two subspecies: 한국조류목록(2009)에는 아종 붉은배제비를 H. r. saturata로 기재하였으나, 아종mandschurica와 saturata를 별개의 아종으로 보고 있고, 한국을 통과하는 아종은 주로mandschurica일 가능성이 높은 것으로 판단된다. 다만, 외부 형태가 비슷하여 아종 간 분 포 경계 등에 대한 조사가 요구되며, 추가적인 분류학적 재검토가 필요하다." While agreeing with the need for more research, the variation shown in plumage saturation (including red-below birds with very limited breast band) and in migration timing and abundance suggests that birds from a much wider area are reaching Korea than suggested than only guttaralis and mandschurica | |||||
1 | Red-tailed Shrike | Lanius phoenicuroides | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | ||||||
1 | Common Pheasant | Phasianus colchicus | 꿩 | LC | NA | 1 | R1 | STA | We’re not calling this one Ring-necked Pheasant anymore? | |||
1 | Common Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | 검은다리솔새 | LC | NA | 0 | ||||||
1 | Black Paradise Flycatcher | Terpsiphone atrocaudata | 긴꼬리딱새 | LC | II | 1 | ||||||
V2 | Two times song heard on Basengnyeong | |||||||||||
1 | Black-naped Oriole | Oriolus chinensis | 꾀꼬리 | LC | NA | 1 | ||||||
북방힝둥새 | ||||||||||||
1 | Great Frigatebird | Fregata minor | 큰군함조 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | |||||
오목눈이 | ||||||||||||
쇠흰등밭종다리 | ||||||||||||
1 | Pale-legged Leaf Warbler | Phylloscopus tenellipes | 되솔새 | LC | NA | 1 | ||||||
1 | Yellow-bellied Tit | Periparus venustulus | 노랑배진박새 | LC | NA | 1 | ||||||
긴목캐나다기러기 | V2 | |||||||||||
1 | Tufted Puffin | Fratercula cirrhata | 댕기바다오리 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | |||||
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