Name
of Site: TANZA COASTAL WETLAND
Province:
National Capital Region of Manila
Prefecture: Navotas Municipality
Nearest town: Navotas
Count
Type: By boat and on foot
Coverage: 75%
Site counted before: No
Date:
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Condition
of Wetland: Wet
Protection:
Unprotected
Treats
and Uses: Cutting and conversion of mangroves; Pollution
by domestic sewage, solid waste, industrial waste;
Limited hunting; Conversion to fishponds
Time
of Count: 08.10 – 10.20 (count offshore) and 13.50-17.30
(coastline)
Participants
Name and affiliation: Carl Oliveros and Arne Jensen
(Wild Bird Club of the Philippines)
Haydee Diokno and Leah Orcilla (DENR, NCR)
Waterfowl
counts and numbers:
1. Great
Egret 6
2. Eastern Reef Egret White Phase 1
3. Chinese Egret (in partial summer plumage w plumes but
beak winter color) 17
4. Little Egret 11
5. Yellow Bittern 2
6. Unidentified Egrets 11
7. Grey Plover 8
8. Asian Golden-Plover 53
9. Little Ringed-Plover 16
10. Kentish Plover 407
11. Lesser Sand-Plover 187
12. Greenshank 122
13. Common Sandpiper 6
14. Great Knot 1
15. Rufous-necked Stint 299
16. Long-toed Stint 58
17. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 2
18. Curlew Sandpiper 157
19. Unidentified Shorebirds 440
20. Black-headed Gull 120
21. Little Tern 1
22. Whiskered Tern 2,128
23. White-winged Tern 1
Additional
species
1.
Peregrine Falcon 1
2. White-collared Kingfisher 12
