One thing KoreAves made obvious after launch: the hardest part of a bird atlas wasn't rendering regions. It was deciding what a clean interface is allowed to imply. A record is not abundance. Missing records are not absence. A matched name is not automatically the same taxon concept. And a modern bird photo can be easier to find than one whose rights and provenance are actually auditable. That last problem became a guest piece on 10,000 Birds: https://www.10000birds.com/the-b... I'm now treating source-to-concept reconciliation and provenance as first-class product data rather than metadata added at the end. For evidence-heavy products, that distinction has turned out to matter more than I expected.
Explore South Korean bird species through regional occurrence evidence, source provenance, GIS views and comparison tools. Built around the 2025 KBR/NIBR national list, with explicit safeguards against treating records as abundance or missing records as confirmed absence.
