January 10, 2009
Puerto Rivas, Sibacan, Tortugas wetlands
Balanga City, Bataan

Gina Mapua,Arne Jensen and Trinket Canlas
going over the figures

Reported by Arne Jensen and Trinket Canlas
Other birders: Rene Bajit, James Biron, Tere Cervero, Adri Constantino, Anna Gonzales, Mike Lu, Gina Mapua, Jun Osano, Joey Soriano

Little Grebe – 32

Yellow Bittern – 4
Cinnamon Bittern – 5
Black-crowned Night-Heron – 34
Cattle Egret – 600
Striated Heron – 17
Little Egret – 245
Intermediate Egret – 19
Great Egret – 407
Purple Heron -12
Grey Heron – 10
Heron & egret sp – 2200

Banded Rail – 1
Barred Rail – 8
White-breasted Waterhen – 1
Moorhen – 26

Census participants at the Puerto Rivas fishponds

Black-winged Stilt – 2042
Pacific Golden Plover – 903
Little Ringed Plover – 16
Kentish Plover – 3992
Mongolian Plover – 197
Redshank – 157
Marsh sandpiper – 332
Greenshank – 295
Wood Sandpiper – 108
Common Sandpiper – 27
Grey-tailed tattler – 3
Red-necked Stint – 1095
Long-toed Stint -93
Curlew Sandpiper – 17
Unidentified shorebirds - 778

Black-headed Gull – 112

Whiskered Tern – 4515
Gull-billed Tern – 2
Little tern – 3
Unidentified terns – 300

Brahminy Kite – 3
Osprey – 1

Collared Kingfisher – 42
Common Kingfisher 25

Total birds recorded : 18,679