North Korea Ramsar wetland
Rason Migratory Bird Reserve
70 bird species recorded; the most in March.
Caitriana Nicholson from 北京 ~ Beijing, 中国 ~ China · CC BY-SA 2.0
This month here
0 species in January.0 species in February.63 species in March.1 species in April.16 species in May.20 species in June.3 species in July.0 species in August.0 species in September.0 species in October.1 species in November.0 species in December.
The birds you are most likely to see in the month you choose, those that come for the season first. It opens on today's month.
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- Resident all year
- Summer visitor comes to breed
- Winter visitor comes for the winter
- Passage migrant in spring and autumn
In numbers
70 species, counted.
Our own rating, from the records only: species (50 points), threatened species (20), migrants (20) and protected status — Ramsar, IBA, SPA, observatory (10).
- 70Speciesrecorded more than once
- 6Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
- 3ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
- 235Recordsopen records within 6 km
- 1Raptors
- 1Waders
- 9Gulls & seabirds
- 20Ducks & geese
- 8Herons, ibises & grebes
- 24Songbirds
- 7Other birds
From open records (eBird and others, through GBIF, licensed for any use). More birdwatchers mean more records: a quiet place may have more birds than it shows.
The checklist
All 70 species.
By group, with the year in twelve cells: the darker the cell, the more often the bird is recorded that month.
Raptors1 species
- Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
Waders1 species
- Far Eastern CurlewNumenius madagascariensis
Gulls & seabirds9 species
- Black-tailed GullLarus crassirostris
- Spectacled GuillemotCepphus carbo
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Common GullLarus canus
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
- Slaty-backed GullLarus schistisagus
- Ancient MurreletSynthliboramphus antiquus
- Black-throated DiverGavia arctica
- Vega GullLarus vegae
Ducks & geese20 species
- Chinese Spot-billed DuckAnas zonorhyncha
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Greater White-fronted GooseAnser albifrons
- Harlequin DuckHistrionicus histrionicus
- GoosanderMergus merganser
- Stejneger's ScoterMelanitta stejnegeri
- Taiga Bean GooseAnser fabalis
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- American ScoterMelanitta americanaNT
- Tufted DuckAythya fuligula
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Long-tailed duckClangula hyemalisVU
- Common GoldeneyeBucephala clangula
- Mute SwanCygnus olor
- Whooper SwanCygnus cygnus
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Eurasian WigeonMareca penelope
- Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeata
- GadwallMareca strepera
- Falcated DuckMareca falcata
Herons, ibises & grebes8 species
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Red-necked GrebePodiceps grisegena
- Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatus
- Great White EgretArdea alba
- Chinese EgretEgretta eulophotesVU
- Pelagic CormorantPhalacrocorax pelagicus
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritusVU
Songbirds24 species
- Ochre-rumped BuntingEmberiza yessoensisNT
- SkylarkAlauda arvensis
- Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
- Oriental MagpiePica serica
- Large-billed CrowCorvus macrorhynchos
- Chinese NuthatchSitta villosa
- Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaea
- Eurasian TreecreeperCerthia familiaris
- Marsh TitPoecile palustris
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Yellow-throated BuntingEmberiza elegans
- Meadow BuntingEmberiza cioides
- Chestnut-eared BuntingEmberiza fucata
- Rustic BuntingEmberiza rusticaNT
- Brown ShrikeLanius cristatus
- BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhula
- Eurasian JayGarrulus glandarius
- Black-browed Reed WarblerAcrocephalus bistrigiceps
- Oriental Reed WarblerAcrocephalus orientalis
- Vinous-throated ParrotbillSinosuthora webbiana
- Grey-capped GreenfinchChloris sinica
- Cinereous TitParus cinereus
- Long-tailed RosefinchCarpodacus sibiricus
- White WagtailMotacilla alba
Other birds7 species
- Hill PigeonColumba rupestris
- Common PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- CootFulica atra
- Japanese QuailCoturnix japonicaNT
- Grey-headed WoodpeckerPicus canus
- Oriental Turtle DoveStreptopelia orientalis
- Eurasian HoopoeUpupa epops
Monthly presence relative to all bird records that month, so a busy month does not inflate every species.
When to go
The most species in March.
Species recorded in each month, with the usual temperature and rain.
- Jan-6°/-14°10 mm
- Feb-2°/-12°10 mm
- Mar5°/-5°18 mm
- Apr12°/1°39 mm
- May18°/7°82 mm
- Jun22°/12°88 mm
- Jul25°/17°147 mm
- Aug26°/18°143 mm
- Sep22°/13°76 mm
- Oct15°/5°44 mm
- Nov5°/-4°27 mm
- Dec-4°/-12°9 mm
- Bar: species recorded that month.
- Temperature: average maximum / minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Rason Migratory Bird Reserve.
Rason Migratory Bird Reserve is a wetland of international importance (Ramsar) in North Korea.
70 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 235 open records.
The most recorded are the Ochre-rumped Bunting, the Chinese Spot-billed Duck and the Black-tailed Gull.
5 species come for the summer, 1 for the winter and 0 only pass through.
3 are threatened worldwide, including Chinese Egret, Horned Grebe and Long-tailed duck.
The most species are recorded in March.
Get there and watch
- въезд на дорогу до пляжа Хасанcampsite · 8.8 km · 1 within 10 km
- Ungsangnearest town · 8.1 km in a straight line
- Yanji Chaoyangchuan Airport (YNJ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 111 km in a straight line
Plan the visit
A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The place and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the bird hides, towers and trails that OpenStreetMap shows.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 1campsites within 10 kmвъезд на дорогу до пляжа Хасан
- bird hides within 6 km
- observation towers within 6 km
- marked trails within 4 km
- visitor centres within 6 km
- viewpoints within 5 km
- car parks within 3 km
- restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- places to stay within 10 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
Around Rason Migratory Bird Reserve.
The lakes, beaches, islands, rivers and mountains around this place, and its night sky, in the family's atlases.
Peakyas12 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas8 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q124974578) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Birds | 235 open bird records within 6 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only; mostly eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Species | GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikidata (CC0); Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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