Avifauna of Geumo Archipelago

A total of 3,248 individuals of 51 species were observed in the Geumo Archipelago (Geumodo, Ando, Yeondo) in Yeosu, Jeollanamdo in two rounds of study conducted from June to September 2008. The dominant species was Larus crassirostris with 1,145 individuals (35.25%) followed by Hirundo rustica with 385 individuals (11.85%), Paradoxornis webbianus with 356 individuals (10.96%), Hypsipetes amaurotis with 219 individuals (6.74%), and Hirundo daurica with 168 individuals (5.17%). Resident birds showed the highest migration of 54.90% followed by summer vagrant birds (31.37%), passage migratory birds (9.8%), winter vagrant birds (1.96%) and vagrant birds (1.96%). The Species biodiversity was 2.43 and the species richness was 6.18.