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| Designation
Number |
Natural
Monument No. 209 |
| Date
of Designation |
July
18, 1968 |
| Location |
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Sinjeop-ri, Bungnae-myeon,
Yeoju-gun, Gyeonggi-do |
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Sinjeop-ri is located 1 km away from Dangwu-ri
rotary in Bungnae-myeon, 8 km to the northeast
of Yeoju-eup. Many egrets and common herons
used to settle in a 400-year-old gingko tree
in the center of the 6.6km2 wide breeding
grounds in the northern part of town.Previously,
the birds were breeding in Jangam-ri which
is 1.5km to the north of the present breeding
grounds. Egrets and common herons which were
breeding in Jangam-ri moved and started to
breed in the present breeding place, Sinjeop-ri
They are migratory birds who come to their
breeding grounds in the spring and leave in
the autumn. They breed in a sunny place near
water and wide plains. First in 1950, the
birds started breeding in gingko trees, but
the gingko trees withered. Afterwards, the
birds spread to other trees in the woods and
most of those trees withered due to the birds’
excrement. Now, only a few common herons and
egrets reside in Sinjeop-ri and many flocks
live in groups in the Ligida pine woods 900m
away from Sinjeop-ri. They come in late March
every year and go to places in Southeast Asia
such as the Philippines in late September
for wintering. |
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