WBCP birders Tim Fisher and Mike Lu consulting the Field Guide	A flock of Garganeys in the Candaba Marsh

Site: Barangay Simang, Candaba Marsh, Pampanga
Date: January 16, 2005
WBCP birders: Lala Espanola, Tim Fisher, Mike Lu, Carl Oliveros, Sol Pedregosa, Orly Punzalan, Kumar Swamy, Mark Villa, Jon Villasper
DENR Region III personnel: Ecosystem Management Specialist Dan Clemente & PAWD staff Edwin Pamintuan Barangay Simang, Candaba Marsh, Pampanga
Date: January 16, 2005 WBCP
birders: Lala Espanola, Tim Fisher, Mike Lu, Carl Oliveros, Sol Pedregosa, Orly Punzalan, Kumar Swamy, Mark Villa, Jon Villasper
DENR Region III personnel: Ecosystem Management Specialist Dan Clemente & PAWD staff Edwin Pamintuan

Total 35 species, 7341 birds
1. Little Grebe Tachbaptus ruficollis - 5
2. Yellow Bittern Ixobrychus sinensis - 19
3. Cinnamon Bittern Ixobrychus cinnamomeus - 2
4. Black Bittern Ixobrychus flavicollis - 1
5. Black-crowned Night-heron Nycticorax nycticorax - 35
6. Chinese Pond Heron Ardeola bacchus - 4
7. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis - 1400
8. Striated Heron Butorides striatus - 1
9. Little Egret Egretta garzetta - 900
10. Intermediate Egret Egretta intermedia - 20
11. Great Egret Egretta alba - 700
12. Purple Heron Ardea purpurea - 25
13. Grey Heron Ardea cinerea - 116
14. Common Teal Anas crecca - 14
15. Philippine Duck Anas luzonica - 600
16. Northern Pintail Anas acuta - 400
17. Garganey Anas querquedula - 2120
18. Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata - 258
19. Tufted Duck Anas fuligula - 1
20. Barred Rail Rallus torquatus - 5
21. White-browed Crake Porzana cinerus - 11
22. White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus - 4
23. Moorhen Gallinula chloropus - 200
24. Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio - 1
25. Common Coot Fulicula atra - 8
26. Pheasant-tailed Jacana Hydrophasianus chirugus - 5
27. Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus - 13
28. Little-ringed Plover Charadrius dubius - 80
29. Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus - 1
30. Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola - 20
31. Common sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos - 2
32. Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta - 20
33. Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus - 350
34. Eastern Marsh Harrier Circus spilonotus - 4
35. Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus- 1

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