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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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# | 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 | Blyth's Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus dumetorum | 덤불개개비 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | Three records; one sight record on chilbal do; two records on Baengnyeong: Oct 2023 and May 2025 | ||||
제비 | ||||||||||||
1 | Pine Bunting | Emberiza leucocephalos | 흰머리멧새 | LC | NA | 0 | P5, W5 | Archive | STA | Fluctuating numbers during migration and in winter. Any evidence that more than 100 each winter for 5 winters? Largest concentration was once 150?? | ||
Park et al. (20025) recognise both subspecies. However, this identification was done last century and might have used different characters. Distribution note of AviList 2025 explicitly includes Korea within range of nominate | ||||||||||||
P3, W3, SV1 | ||||||||||||
1 | Cinereous Vulture | Aegypius monachus | 독수리 | NT | II | 0 | ||||||
Images clearly show this subspecies | ||||||||||||
1 | Ashy Minivet | Pericrocotus divaricatus | 할미새사촌 | LC | NA | 1 | ||||||
곤줄박이 | ||||||||||||
1 | Tufted Duck | Aythya fuligula | 댕기흰죽지 | LC | NA | 0 | P/W2 | INC | Last 2 Census counts show highest numbers during migration periods (obviously matched by research in e.g. Hwaseong and Yeoncheon). | |||
1 | Marsh Grassbird | Helopsaltes pryeri | 큰개개비 | NT | NA | 0 | V2 | |||||
1 | Red-billed Chough | Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax | 붉은부리까마귀 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | Now four sight records: Busan in 1981 (published 15 years later in 1996); Wonju in 2006 (via Park Jong-Gil's book); Gunsan by Choi Seung-Hoon in about 2000 (not published, but he was confident of ID).; and Gaego in 2023 (?) | ||||
1 | Latham's Snipe | Gallinago hardwickii | 큰꺅도요 | NT | NA | 0 | ||||||
1 | Asian Dowitcher | Limnodromus semipalmatus | 큰부리도요 | NT | NA | 0 | ||||||
1 | Great Crested Grebe | Podiceps cristatus | 뿔논병아리 | LC | LC | 1 | ||||||
1 | Snow Goose | Anser caerulescens | 흰기러기 | LC | NT | 0 | V1 (W5) | Census, Archives | Increasing number of records | Highest census count 11 in 2019/2020. Probably >10 individuals per winter in past 5 winters. | ||
AviList (2025) gives range of this subspecies as Tien Shan in Kazhakstan only; and Park et al. (2025) only recognise japonica | ||||||||||||
1 | Kamchatka Leaf Warbler | Phylloscopus examinandus | 큰솔새 | LC | NA | 0 | ||||||
1 | Northern Shrike | Lanius borealis | 재때까치 | LC | NA | 0 | ||||||
1 | Merlin | Falco columbarius | 쇠황조롱이 | LC | NT | 0 | ||||||
3 | Common Swift | Apus apus | 검은등칼새 | LC | NA | 0 | V1 | Listed as accepted by Park et al. (2025) on the basis of multiple sight records, especially by Moores. One record shot taken but insufficient to identify to species | ||||
1 | Black-headed Bunting | Emberiza melanocephala | 검은머리멧새 | LC | NA | 0 | V1 | Archive | IRR | Annual, but still fewer than 10 records each year for past 5 years | ||
1 | Eurasian Siskin | Spinus spinus | 검은머리방울새 | LC | NA | 3 | ||||||
1 | Stock Dove | Columba oenas | 분홍가슴비둘기 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | Archive | IRR | Last record: six recorded in November 1999 in Haenam remained into and were seen again in Jan 2000 | ||
1 | Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | 매 | LC | II | 1 | ||||||
1 | Booted Eagle | Hieraaetus pennatus | 흰점어깨수리 | LC | NA | 0 | ||||||
presumably | ||||||||||||
1 | Lesser Whitethroat | Curruca curruca | 쇠흰턱딱새 | LC | NA | 0 | ||||||
종다리 | ||||||||||||
1 | Upland Buzzard | Buteo hemilasius | 큰말똥가리 | LC | II | 0 | ||||||
1 | Grey-headed Lapwing | Vanellus cinereus | 민댕기물떼새 | LC | NA | 0 | ||||||
1 | Himalayan Owl | Strix nivicolum | 올빼미 | LC | II | 1 | ||||||
1 | Plumbeous Water Redstart | Phoenicurus fuliginosus | 부채꼬리바위딱새 | LC | NA | 1 | ||||||
1 | Yellow-legged Buttonquail | Turnix tanki | 세가락메추라기 | LC | NA | 1 | V1 (grey?) | Archives | DEC | Historical trend less obvious than recent trend | ||
1 | Black Scoter | Melanitta americana | 검둥오리 | NT | NA | 0 | W5 | DEC | Census pattern of records does not make sense as seems almost cyclical. Some of this is likely due to addition of sites. Peak count in last 20 yrs 225 in 2000/ 2001; 457 in 2010/ 2011; 416 in 2016/ 2017 and 201 in 2020/ 2021 with 5 yr geo mean of only 55 for 2018/2019-2022/2023. Current trend suggests national extirpation within the next decade. Also has decreased off Baengnyeong; is now almost absent off from Guryongpo; and becoming irregular in Goseong. | |||
1 | Grey-headed Woodpecker | Picus canus | 청딱다구리 | LC | NA | 1 | ||||||
1 | Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | 꺅도요 | LC | NA | 0 | ||||||
1 | Desert Wheatear | Oenanthe deserti | 검은꼬리사막딱새 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | 3-4 records | ||||
1 | Gyrfalcon | Falco rusticolus | 흰매 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | |||||
REVIEW | ||||||||||||
Two records up to 2025 | ||||||||||||
1 | Siberian House Martin | Delichon lagopodum | 흰턱제비 | LC | NA | 3? | ||||||
RIA | Caspian Gull | Larus cachinnans | 카스피해갈매기 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | In Park et al. (2025) listed as Pending. As knowledge of gulls has improved substantially over the past decades (and with awareness of the presence of barabensis and suspicion of hybrids); because it would be good to reduce differences between checklists; and because there have not been any convincing claims in recent years, this seems wise. There is a need to gather convincing images and to re-examine . | ||||
1 | Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | 붉은발도요 | LC | NT | 1 | ||||||
1 | Pin-tailed Snipe | Gallinago stenura | 바늘꼬리도요 | LC | NA | 0 | ||||||
1 | Radde's Warbler | Phylloscopus schwarzi | 긴다리솔새사촌 | LC | NA | 1 | ||||||
1 | Great Spotted Woodpecker | Dendrocopos major | 오색딱다구리 | LC | NA | 1 | ||||||
1 | Daurian Jackdaw | Coloeus dauuricus | 갈까마귀 | LC | NA | 0 | ||||||
1 | Pallas’s Gull | Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus | 큰검은머리갈매기 | LC | NA | 0 | V1 | |||||
1 | Eurasian Hobby | Falco subbuteo | 새호리기 | LC | II | 1 | ||||||
1 | Large-billed Crow | Corvus macrorhynchos | 큰부리까마귀 | LC | NA | 1 | ||||||
1 | Yellow Bittern | Botaurus sinensis | 덤불해오라기 | LC | NA | 1 | ||||||
1 | Black-legged Kittiwake | Rissa tridactyla | 세가락갈매기 | VU | NA | 0 | ||||||
1 | Eurasian Dotterel | Eudromias morinellus | 흰눈썹물떼새 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | |||||
1 | Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis | 쇠검은머리흰죽지 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | |||||
1 | Stejneger's Scoter | Melanitta stejnegeri | 검둥오리사촌 | LC | NA | 0 | P/W 4 | DEC | Although census does not provide comprehensive counts, rapid decrease clearly continuing. Baengnyeong counts now largest remaining concentration natiownide, and only 11 were recorded by the winter census in mid-winter 2022/2023 (previous highest census count was 1741 in 2005/ 2006 | |||
1 | Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker | Yungipicus canicapillus | 아물쇠딱다구리 | LC | NA | 1 | ||||||
1 | Swinhoe's Snipe | Gallinago megala | 꺅도요사촌 | LC | NA | 0 | ||||||
제주방울새 | Avilist (2025) includes Jeju explicitly in range of minor | |||||||||||
1 | Eastern Grass Owl | Tyto longimembris | 가면올빼미 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | |||||
1 | Savannah Sparrow | Passerculus sandwichensis | 초원멧새 | LC | NA | 0 | V2 | Archive | IRR | Four or five records? |
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