During a morning of birding with some visitors on the northwest of Jeju, I heard a slightly different song. Initially I brushed it off as a rooster crowing from some local village farm, but after it repeated a while it began to sound familiar. Then I remembered I had hear this call often when visiting China and knew what it was. I scanned the park we were in and quickly saw a Spotted Dove cooing from the top of a light pole. What a great find! This species is very common across the Yellow Sea in China, but Korea has only a handful of documented records. I believe this was the second record for Jeju, the first being a month earlier on Mara-do.
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