Shorebirds of the Yellow Sea
Importance, threats and conservation status
Mark Barter
Wetlands International, 2002
ISBN 90 5882 009 2
5. Internationally important shorebird sites in the Yellow Sea
5.3 Site Accounts (continued)
5.3.18 Seosan Reclaimed Area
Site information
Location: Chunchongnam Province, South Korea; 36º 39' N, 126º 23' E.
Area: 17 500 ha
Wetland type: Mostly lakes and rice fields formed by coastal reclamation which was completed in 1984; also intertidal flats (2 000 ha).
Protected Area status: None.
Threats: None known (Moores 1999b).
Count information
Counts were conducted twice during NM and three times during SM in 1997 and 1998. The count for the site has been obtained by summing the species maxima over the 1997-1998 period (Yi & Kim in prep.).
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Northward migration Count Ref
|
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Black-tailed Godwit | 6 006 | 1 |
| Kentish Plover | 1 063 | 1 |
| Common Greenshank | 963 | 1 |
Significance of site
Highest counts: NM 10 696; SM 408.
Supports:
- 3 species in internationally important numbers on NM;
Species count reference
- Yi & Kim in prep.
5.3.19 Geum Gang Hagu
Site information
Location: Chollabuk Province, South Korea; 36º 00' N, 126º 40' E.
Area: 12 000 ha.
Wetland type: Intertidal flats and barraged river.
Protected Area status: None.
Threats: 7 km of southern bank already reclaimed. Proposed to completely reclaim remaining mud flats. Pollution, tourism and changing agricultural methods (Moores 1999b).
Count information
Counts were conducted twice during NM and three times during SM in 1997, 1998 and 1999 (Yi & Kim in prep.). Additional counts were made during NM and SM in 1998 and in the 1998-1999 NB season (Moores 1999a). Roost counts obtained at Yubu Island, which is located within the estuary, have been included in the site data.
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Northward migration
|
Count
|
Ref
|
|---|---|---|
| Great Knot | 18 850 | 1 |
| Black-tailed Godwit | 2 049 | 2 |
| Terek Sandpiper | 761 | 1 |
| Eastern Curlew | 422 | 1 |
|
Southward migration
|
|
|
| Eurasian Curlew | 2 800 | 1 |
| Kentish Plover | 2 500 | 1 |
| Terek Sandpiper | 1 653 | 2 |
| Grey Plover | 1 300 | 1 |
| Eurasian Oystercatcher | 1 060 | 1 |
| Common Greenshank | 699 | 2 |
| Sanderling | 300 | 1 |
|
Non-breeding season
|
||
| Eurasian Oystercatcher | 5 700 | 3 |
| Eurasian Curlew | 350 | 1 |
Significance of site
Highest counts: NM 34 198; SM 12 212; NB 4 084.
Supports:
- 10 species in internationally important numbers (NM 4; SM 7; NB 2);
- >50% of the estimated flyway population of Eurasian Oystercatcher during the NB period (at Yubu Island roost);
- >5% of the estimated flyway population of Eurasian Curlew during SM;
- the highest recorded internationally important numbers of Eurasian Oystercatcher in the Yellow Sea during SM and the NB season.
Species count references
- Yi & Kim in prep.
- Moores 1999a
- N. Moores in litt.
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