FIRST RECORD OF MELANITTA FUSCA IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA AND UPDATE ON NORTHEAST ASIAN RECORDS

FIRST RECORD OF MELANITTA FUSCA IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA AND UPDATE ON NORTHEAST ASIAN RECORDS

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We report the first confirmed sighting of the globally Vulnerable Melanitta fusca (Anatidae, Stove Rack Slide Rails Anseriformes) from Yeongil Bay in Pohang in the Republic of Korea.Based on the review of the literature and published checklists of two separate databases (Birds Korea and eBird), we consider this to be the first record of M.fusca on the Korean Peninsula English pads and only the third or fourth record of this species in coastal East Asia.