South Korea Ramsar wetland
The High Moor, Yongneup of Mt. Daeam
57 bird species recorded; the most in June.
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30
This month here
1 species in January.0 species in February.1 species in March.0 species in April.1 species in May.30 species in June.1 species in July.0 species in August.0 species in September.0 species in October.0 species in November.2 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
57 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).
- 57Speciesrecorded more than once
- 1Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
- 0ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
- 751Recordsopen records within 6 km
- 1,180 mAltitudeabove the sea
- 4Raptors
- 2Waders
- 1Ducks & geese
- 6Herons, ibises & grebes
- 32Songbirds
- 12Other 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 57 species.
By group, with the year in twelve cells: the darker the cell, the more often the bird is recorded that month.
Raptors4 species
- Eurasian Black VultureAegypius monachusNT
- Common BuzzardButeo buteo
- Grey-faced BuzzardButastur indicus
- Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
Waders2 species
- Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos
- Little ringed ploverCharadrius dubius
Ducks & geese1 species
- Anas poecilorhynchaAnas poecilorhyncha
Herons, ibises & grebes6 species
- Great White EgretArdea alba
- Grey HeronArdea cinerea
- Striated HeronButorides striata
- Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis
- Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo
- Egretta intermediaEgretta intermedia
Songbirds32 species
- Brown-eared BulbulHypsipetes amaurotis
- Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus
- Daurian RedstartPhoenicurus auroreus
- Large-billed CrowCorvus macrorhynchos
- Vinous-throated ParrotbillSinosuthora webbiana
- Great titParus major
- Barn swallowHirundo rustica
- Grey WagtailMotacilla cinerea
- Eastern Crowned Leaf WarblerPhylloscopus coronatus
- Yellow-throated BuntingEmberiza elegans
- Eurasian MagpiePica pica
- Azure-winged MagpieCyanopica cyanus
- White WagtailMotacilla alba
- Marsh TitPoecile palustris
- Pale ThrushTurdus pallidus
- Grey-capped GreenfinchChloris sinica
- Meadow BuntingEmberiza cioides
- Blue-and-white FlycatcherCyanoptila cyanomelana
- Bull-headed ShrikeLanius bucephalus
- Eurasian JayGarrulus glandarius
- Japanese WagtailMotacilla grandis
- Grey-backed ThrushTurdus hortulorum
- Pale-legged WarblerPhylloscopus tenellipes
- Rustic BuntingEmberiza rusticaNT
- Oriolus chinensisOriolus chinensis
- Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaea
- African StonechatSaxicola torquatus
- Tiger ShrikeLanius tigrinus
- Parus variusParus varius
- Coal TitPeriparus ater
- Asian StubtailUrosphena squameiceps
- White's ThrushZoothera aurea
Other birds12 species
- Common KingfisherAlcedo atthis
- Common PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- Japanese Pygmy WoodpeckerYungipicus kizuki
- Common CuckooCuculus canorus
- Indian CuckooCuculus micropterus
- Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major
- Oriental DollarbirdEurystomus orientalis
- Caprimulgus indicusCaprimulgus indicus
- Oriental Turtle DoveStreptopelia orientalis
- Oriental CuckooCuculus optatus
- Cuculus hyperythrusCuculus hyperythrus
- Cuculus saturatusCuculus saturatus
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 June.
Species recorded in each month, with the usual temperature and rain.
- Jan-3°/-13°24 mm
- Feb0°/-10°35 mm
- Mar6°/-4°40 mm
- Apr13°/1°77 mm
- May20°/8°83 mm
- Jun24°/14°121 mm
- Jul26°/18°372 mm
- Aug26°/18°288 mm
- Sep21°/13°156 mm
- Oct15°/5°70 mm
- Nov7°/-2°61 mm
- Dec-1°/-10°25 mm
- Bar: species recorded that month.
- Temperature: average maximum / minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
The High Moor, Yongneup of Mt. Daeam.
The High Moor, Yongneup of Mt. Daeam is a wetland of international importance (Ramsar) in South Korea, 1,180 m above the sea.
57 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 751 open records.
The most recorded are the Brown-eared Bulbul, the Eurasian Tree Sparrow and the Daurian Redstart.
0 species come for the summer, 1 for the winter and 0 only pass through.
The most species are recorded in June.
Get there and watch
- 인북천 물빛테마공원 캠핑장campsite · 7.2 km · 2 within 10 km
- 월학펜션place to stay · 6.2 km · 9 within 10 km
- Dongmyeonnearest town · 7.2 km in a straight line
- Yangyang International Airport (YNY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 51 km in a straight lineCar hire at GMP airport (Seoul)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
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
- 4viewpoints within 5 km전망대 and 3 more
- 2campsites within 10 km인북천 물빛테마공원 캠핑장, 발리봉캠핑장
- 9places to stay within 10 km월학펜션, 용늪펜션, 목화장모텔 and 6 more
- bird hides within 6 km
- observation towers within 6 km
- marked trails within 4 km
- visitor centres within 6 km
- car parks within 3 km
- restaurants and cafés within 3 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 The High Moor, Yongneup of Mt. Daeam.
The lakes, beaches, islands, rivers and mountains around this place, and its night sky, in the family's atlases.
Peakyas39 mountains within 25 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Other places nearby.
The High Moor, Yongneup of Mt. Daeam
South Korea
- 36Birdyas Score
- 57Species
- 1Migrants
- 0Threatened
Ganghwa Maehwamarum Habitat
South Korea · 156 km
- 86Birdyas Score
- 207Species
- 132Migrants
- 12Threatened
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q7739606) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Birds | 751 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, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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