This, one of the birds of
family Anatidae, order Anseriformes, is 40cm long and
has 21cm-long wings. It lays 6~9 eggs at once during
April to June and a female bird broods them for about 26
days. It hatches them in the east of Siberia and stays
in Korea, Japan or China during winter.
As a worldwide
rare bird, it has been contained in the list of
'CITES(The Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)'. It bears a
very favorable comparison with any other bird in
Cheonsuman.
This bird, which belongs to family
Anatidae, order Anseriformes, is 76~89cm long. It is
thicker brown than general wild geese, and its beak is
black with a orange-yellow line on the tip. It lays 4~5
eggs usually and sometimes lays up to 7 eggs.
A female
bird, which broods its eggs for 26 days, seldom leaves
its nest during that period and travels for food once a
day. It is a herbivore and eats green leaves or fallen
grains of wheat and barley, potatoes, sweet potatoes,
fruits of water chestnuts, seeds of weeds, and etc.
It is 23.5cm long. The crown
of the head of a female bird is dark brown with a
cream color stripe in the middle of it.
Semicircular white markings are obvious around the
eyes. A male bird has vertical stripes on the neck
and the upper chest.
Both female and male have
a green colored brown back with checked markings
and vertical stripes. Its break is long and red. A
female bird lays eggs by moving about nests to
nests and copulating with a new male bird.
This is a tall snipe bird
which is about 38.5cm long and has a crooked beak.
A male bird's summer plumage has dark brown spots
on the forehead and the back of head and neck, and
white parts at both sides of forehead and the
beginning point of the upper beak.
Its belly is
maroon. When it flies, wide white lines on the
wings and black horizontal stripe on the white
tail are conspicuous. It walks with its long neck
stooped like letter 'S', and it hunts food by
putting its beak vertically into mud in the
wetland or water.
This is a big bird of family
Threskiornithidae, order Ciconiiformes, and is also
called a spoonbill. It is about 86cm long. Its bill is
yellow and spoon like shape with flat tip. It hatches at
ponds or forests near swamps, or grass fields around
lakes and forms a group. It is a rare bird in Korea,
which has been watched only several times at the Nakdong
river. It has been entitled as the 205th Natural
Monuments of Korea since May 30, 1068. It distributes
widely in the paleoarctic region. Up to 80 of them can
be watched in cheonsuman every year.
It is a rare bird in Korea,
which has been watched only several times at the Nakdong
river. It has been entitled as the 205th Natural
Monuments of Korea since May 30, 1068. It distributes
widely in the paleoarctic region. Up to 80 of them can
be watched in cheonsuman every year.
This is a member of family
Ciconiidae, order Ciconiiformes, and is about 112cm
long. A white stork in Korea has red legs and black
beak. Whole body is white with partial black color of
feathers on the wings. It can not sing like other birds
because it doesn't have the syrinx.
It has been listed
on the Red Date Book of IUCN(International Union for
Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) with the
number 26, and entitled as the 199th Natural Monument of
Korea since 1968.
This is a member of family
Charadriidae, order Charadriiformes, and is 48~51cm
long. It is easily distinguished by long pink color
legs, black beak, and contrast of black upper part and
white lower part.
It visits reclaimed lands, swamps,
beaches, rice fields, lakes, rivers delta, and like
places, and shakes its body up and down when it stops
during strolling to find food. It is a straggler which
visits Korea rarely.
This bird is about 35~43cm long and
the male is bigger than the female. A male bird's summer
plumage has lined black spots on dark brown body except
tail feather and red crest on the top of the head.
It
was a common summer visitor, but the number of it has
been rapidly decreased and the Ministry of Environment
designated it as a protective bird.
This is about 14cm long. A male
bird has black head, black neck (it turns brown in
winter), and brown back with vertical black stripes. The
lower part is white and vertical black stripes are on
the sides.
A female bird has brown head, and cream
colored eyebrows lines and brown and white
chin
lines are conspicuous. It has brown back with vertical
dark stripes. It is a rare bird in Korea and is a winter
visitor and passage migrant.
It belongs to family Andatidae,
order Anseriformes, and is about 1.5m long with about
2.4m long wings. Both female and male is pure white and
chicks are grey brown. It looks similar to a swan but
has the beak with wider yellow part. Its legs are black
or dark grey.
It swims with its neck uprightly kept. It
is a winter visitor and stays in Ho island of Ongjin-gun
Hwanghae province, Cheonsuman Seosan, Gyeongpo beach and
lake of Gangwon province, the mouth of Nakdong river,
and Jinhae and Haenam of Jeonnam province during winter.
It has been entitled as the 201st Natural Monument of
Korea since 1968.
