Unryul Kumsanpo

The reserve is important for whooper swans, with up to 750 individuals using it on passage migration[1]

Unryul Kumsanpo is an 800 ha wetland wildlife reserve on the north-eastern shore of the Yellow Sea, on the west coast of North Korea in South Hwanghae Province south of the estuary of the Taedong River. The site forms the core of a 1400 ha Important Bird Area (IBA), identified as such by BirdLife International because, with adjacent rice paddies, it supports populations of migrating and wintering water and wetland birds. Species using the site include swan geese, whooper swans, black-faced spoonbills, Chinese egrets, red-crowned cranes and Nordmann's greenshanks. The IBA is threatened by agricultural intensification.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Unryul Kumsanpo". Important Bird Areas factsheet. BirdLife International. 2013. Retrieved 2013-05-06.

Coordinates: 38°35′00″N 125°04′00″E / 38.58333°N 125.06667°E / 38.58333; 125.06667


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, December 24, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.