The now Philippine endemic Palawan restricted PALE SPIDERHUNTER is on top of our birding list when we visited Puerto Princesa City last month. It was formerly grouped under Little Spiderhunter which is resident in some parts of South East Asia and India, but was split to full Philippine endemic after recent findings that it is […]
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Mantanani Scops-Owls of Palawan, Philippines
I and Rey Sta Ana, fellow co-founder of Wild Bird Photographers of the Philippines (WBPP), have almost given up the opportunity to photograph this species as the first sighting made our island guide so excited he forgot the exact place where he saw it, and when he brought us there he was in a quandary […]
Philippines’ Rarest Whiskered Pitta Thriving in Mt. Banahaw
MANILA, Philippines – Cris Ceriban, a caretaker at the Bangkong Kahoy Valley Resort, Dolores, Quezon, recently stumbled upon a bird’s nest while inspecting the community water source in Mt. Banahaw. He thought it was just a nest of a Plain Bushen, a Philippine endemic waterbird, until he described his find to a visiting wild bird […]
Bathing Backyard Birds
It is the middle of summer in the Philippines and the temperatures are reaching all-time highs. Last week, it was 36.7 degrees Celsius, one of the hottest recorded temperatures for capital city Manila and our backyards birds are enjoying the bird baths setup in the garden. We setup two bird baths two years ago and […]
A family of the Philippines’ biggest owl
This year is probably the best year for the Philippine Eagle-Owl. The year started with a sighting of a family of Philippine Eagle-Owls right in busy Manila, with the mother and father eagle-owl guarding a immature roosting in a planters box (check out Birding Adventure Philippines‘ Trinket Canlas blogpost about this encounter here). Several of […]