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Date:
April
9, 2005
Location: Olango Island, Cebu
by Bruce & Helen Glick, Nilo Arribas, Jr.
Great
day at Olango with Nilo! The area is so huge that
the following numbers are just what I actually saw.
It is only a small percentage of the birds present
in the area. Amazingly, Chinese Egret seemed to
be the most common egret of the day! Some of the
birds were in breeding plumage, particularly the
sand-plovers.
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BIRD LIST:
1. Great
Egret 20+
2. Intermediate Egret 5+
3. Chinese Egret 25+
4. Little Egret 10+
5. Little Heron 6
6. Barred Rail 1
7. Grey Plover 35+
8. Kentish Plover 15
9. Lesser Sand-Plover 35+
10. Greater Sand-Plover 25+
11. Far Eastern Curlew 7
12. Whimbrel 150+
13. Bar-tailed Godwit 12
14. Common Redshank 5
15. Common Greenshank 40+
16. Common Sandpiper 2
17. Terek Sandpiper 10
18. Grey-tailed Tattler 25
19. Ruddy Turnstone 25+
20. Asian Dowitcher 3 (others reported a flock of 40+)
21. Rufous-necked Stint 12
22. Curlew Sandpiper 20
23. Black-headed Gull 2
24. Gull-billed Tern 15
25. White-winged Tern 2
26. Whiskered Tern 10+
27. Spotted Dove 4
28. Zebra Dove 2
29. Common Kingfisher 2
30. White-collared Kingfisher 5
31. Barn Swallow ?
32. Pacific Swallow ?
33. Yellow-bented Bulbul ?
34. Golden-bellied Flyeater 4
35. Oriental Reed-Warabler 2
36. Pied Fantail 4
37. Yellow Wagtail 1
38. Brown Shrike 2
39. Asian Glossy Starling ?
40. Olive-backed Sunbird ?
41. E. Tree-Sparrow ?
Total: 41 species |
Date:
April 10, 2005
Location:Tabunan
Hills, Cebu
by Bruce & Helen Glick, Nilo Arribas, Jr
Nilo
arranged for us to have this first look at the Tabunan Hills.
It was a very good day, despite not finding some specialties.
Climbing to the lookouts and wandering in the forest was
fun, as was photographing a pair of Balicassios on a nest
above one of the lookouts. We played hide-and-seek with
Black Shamas at very close range. I'd like to go back.
BIRD LIST:
1. Brahminy
Kite 1
2. Barred Rail 1
3. White-eared Brown-Dove 8+
4. Zebra Dove 2
5. Brush Cuckoo 2+
6. Philippine Coucal ? - heard all day
7. Pygmy Swiflet ? - seemed to be the only swift
8. White-collared Kingfisher 2
9. Coppersmith Barbet 10+ - very common bird here
10. Philippine Pygmy Woodpecker Hd.
11. Pied Triller 1
12. Yellow-vented Bulbul ?
13. Philippine Bulbul 10+
14. Balicassio 2 - on nest
15. Oriental Magpie-Robin Hd.
16. Black Shama 2-4
17. Arctic Warbler 2
18. Striated Grassbird 2+
19. Mangrove Blue-Flycatcher 1
20. Brown Shrike 2
21. Asian Glossy Starling ?
22. Olive-backed Sunbird ?
23. Crimson Sunbird 2-4 - beautiful!
24. Red-keeled Flowerpecker 8+
25. Everett's White-eye 5+
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Date: April 17, 2005
Location: Raja Sitakuna National
Part - (Logarita), Bilar, Bohol
Bruce and Helen Glick
Report by Bruce Glick
Birds
seen while at a work retreat on Apo Island. The
island is so smal that you can walk across from
one side to the other in 10 minutes, and the length
seems less than a kilometer. It is rocky and steep
in places and has arguably the best diving in the
Philippines. We also know now that migrating Chinese
Goshawks use it as a stop- over going north (at
least they did for one day!) I have written an article
on the migrating hawks.
BIRD
LIST:
1. Little Egret 1
2. Cattle Egret 1
3. White-bellied Sea-Eagle 1
4. Chinese Goshawk 1397 - from 6:15 - 7:30 a.m.
5. Peregrine Falcon 1 - resident sub-species
6. Barred Rail 2+
7. Red-necked Phalarope 5 - off-shore
8. Whiskered Tern 1
9. Pink-necked Pigeon 3+
10. White-eared Brown-Dove 2+
11. Pied-Imperial Pigeon 6+
12. Spotted Dove 4+
13. Zebra Dove 2+
14. Philippine Coucal 4+
15. Pygmy Swiftlet common
16. White-collared Kingfisher 2
17. Pacific Swallow
nesting on rocks
18. Black-naped Oriole 4+
19. Pied Triller 6+
20. Oriental Magpie-Robin 5
21. Blue
Rock-Thrush 1
22. Grey-streaked Flycatcher 1
23. Yellow Wagtail 1
24. Brown Shrike - 4
25. Olive-backed Sunbird - common
26. Asian Glossy Starling - nesting on rocky cliffs
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April 17, 2005
Raja Sitakuna National Part - (Logarita), Bilar,
Bohol
Bruce and Helen Glick Report by Bruce Glick
We
birded Logarita from 5 am to 3 pm on April 17th
and returned for a few short hours on the 18th before
we had to leave. I have included the few additions
on the 18th in this list. We found the trails recently
cleared and excellent. Birds were a bit sparce but
with persistence there are many to hear and some
to see! The maps we have seen of the trails were
poorly done and we were aided by one of the rangers
in making a better one. We started from the research
center (formerly called Boy Scout camp but not called
that currently). Walked all the trails, including
to the top of Bilar Peak. We could find no reference
on current maps or from personnel there now who
knew what was referred to in early trip reports
as Valley Trail. We recommend this place highly.
We stayed at Chocolate Hills Complex and had local
driver Chito take us back and forth to Logarita
but it could be done by bus, jeepney and moto and
walking.
BIRD LIST:
1. Intermediate Egret 2
2. Little Egret 2
3. Cattle Egret 20+
4. Brahminy Kite 1
5. White-eared Brown-Dove 10+
6. Amethyst Brown-Dove 1 (hd)
7. Yellow-breasted Fruit-Dove hd often
8. Black-chinned Fruit-Dove hd.
9. Green Imperial-Pigeon hd
10. Philippine Hawk-Cuckoo hd
11. Plaintive Cuckoo hd
12. Brush Cuckoo hd
13. Philippine Drongo-Cuckoo 4+
14. Common Koel 2+
15. Philippine Coucal hd
16. Black-faced Coucal 1 - seen well, not far from summit
17. Great-eared Nightjar 1 - seen at dawn over clearing
18. Philippine Nightjar hd - rangers say common on park
road - eve
19. Island Swiftlet small numbers
20. Pygmy Swiftlet small numbers
21. Philippine Trogon 3+
22. Rufous-lored Kingfisher 2 - very close - just after
dawn (4/18)
23. White-collared Kingfisher 4+
24. Visanyan Tarictic Hornbill 6+ - quite close but
hard to see
25. White-bellied Woodpecker 2
26. Steere's Pitta 1 - very close, calling, photo
27. Pacific Swallow small numbers
28. Bar-bellied Cuckoo-shrike 1
29. Yellow-vented Bulbul lower altitudes, edges
30. Philippine Bulbul 15+
31. Hair-crested Drongo 6+
32. Black-naped Oriole 2+
33. Philippine Fairy-bluebird 1
34. Black-crowned Babbler 2
35. Brown Tit-Babbler 3+
36. Arctic Warbler 2
37. Philippine Tailorbird 3+ hd
38. Yellow-breasted Tailorbird 1 hd. only (4/18)
39. Mangrove Blue-Flycatcher 2
40. Blue Fantail 2+ - hd
41. Yellow-bellied Whistler 1
42. White-breasted Wood-swallow 3
43. Long-tailed Shrike 1
44. Brown Shrike 2
45. Asian Glossy Starling common
46. Coleto 2
47. Olive-backed Sunbird common
48. Purple-throated Sunbird 2
49. Metallic-winged Sunbird 1+
50. Red-keeled Flowerpecker 4+
51. Orange-bellied Flowerpecker 2
Total
51 species |
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