The return of Motacilla Flava
Mr Flava
Time for another in my occasional series of guest columns on Stalinist ornithology. This comes from yesterday’s edition of KCNA English news:
Pyongyang, August 11 (KCNA) — This summer a larger number of migratory birds have come to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea than usual. Seen in the country are more than 110 kinds of summer birds.
Among them over 20 kinds of birds including Horeites cantans, Acrocephalus ardinaces, Motacilla flava and Emberiza tristrami Swinh have sharply increased in number this year.
In particular, the number of Halcyon coromanda, Halcyon pileata, Phylloscopus tonelipes Swinh, Emberiza spodocephala Pall and others nearly doubles that in the past.
Scarlet-finch, needle-tailed swift and various other species of seasonal birds, their number being 1.5 times that of the last year, have flown into the dense forest around the secret camp in Mt. Paektu.
Meanwhile, an increasing number of birds belonging to Egretta and Rallidae have nestled in west coastal areas of the country and Saxicola torguata Steju in the central area.
The government has set March and July every year as the period for protecting useful animals and organized various activities such as tree-planting, river and swampy land improvement and installation of artificial nests to provide good environment to birds. A special attention has been directed to making favorable conditions for the protection and propagation of birds.
