Guided Birding and nature tours to the Philippines
Yellow-breasted Fruit-dove in Mt. Kitanglad [HD]
Here’s sharing with you a short video clip of a Yellow-breasted Fruit-dove trying to collect twigs as nesting material. This was taken during one of our custom tours for Jeepney Projects Worldwide. Jeepney Projects Worldwide is a partnering of benefit art projects and regional conservation groups working to inspire support and restore lost habitat of critically endangered birds. They are doing an art benefit project for the Philippine Eagle Foundation in conserving the Philippines’ national bird, the Great Philippine Eagle.
The Yellow-breasted Fruit-dove is one of the five endemic fruit-doves found in the Philippines. It can be found allover the country except the Palawan region and inhabits forest and forest edge in lowland and montane forests usually taking advantage of fruiting trees. Locally called Punay, it is one of the most colorful fruit-doves in the Philippines.
Which one do you think is prettier, this Yellow-breasted Fruit-dove or its high-elevation-Luzon-only cousin, Flame-breasted Fruit-dove?
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Golden-crowned Babbler
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Another bird video from Camp Sawa, Penablanca Protected Landscape, Cagayan. This is a video of a pair of Golden-crowned Babblers, Stachyris dennistouni, just one of the many birds that can be found in Camp Sawa, the new site in the Sierra Madre Mountains, Northern Luzon, Philippines. These Golden-crowned Babblers belong to the Timaliidae family, a
Nesting Lowland White-eyes
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Most of the migrants have left and it is the time for nesting for Philippine resident birds. We have recently stumbled upon these Luzon endemic Lowland White-eyes nesting in a nature park within busy Metro Manila (the new site for this amazing and uncommon Ashy Ground Thrush). Lowland White-eyes are common Luzon endemics (with a
Flowerpeckers of the Philippines
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The Philippines is home to a number of flowerpeckers, small, stout passerine birds, with short thick decurved bills designed for eating small fruits as well as to sip nectar from flowers. They are really small and very active birds and is usually found in a mixed feeding flock together with other birds such as sunbirds,
Apo Myna: funky or punk-y?
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This is the funky (or punk-y)- looking Mindanao endemic Apo Myna. It is found in the high elevation forests of Mindanao island, most commonly reported in popular birdwatching sites like the Mt. Kitanglad mountain range. It is one of the two endemic starlings** here in the Philippines (the other one is as funky or punk-y
Philippine Eagle-Owl [HD]
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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
Indigo-banded Kingfisher [HD]
about 2 months ago - 3 comments
This Indigo-banded Kingfisher is a Philippine endemic found in freshwater streams of Luzon and its satellites, Mindoro, Panay, Negros and Cebu. This little jewel prefers to perch low over water on rocks or branches and dives head first to catch small fish and small crabs. The one in the video is a female individual videoscoped
Mr. and Mrs. Mindanao Wattled Broadbill [HD]
about 3 months ago - No comments
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. What more if it is a video?!? Especially if it is a video of a pair of one of Mindanao’s most sought-after birds: the funky-looking Mindanao Wattled Broadbill. Mr. Broadbill sports a pinkish, light purple breast and belly (real men wear purple!) while Mrs. Broadbill has
Ashy Ground Thrush [HD]
about 3 months ago - 5 comments
This is a video of the uncommon and seldom seen Ashy Ground Thrush, Zoothera cinerea from one of our birding tours last November – December 2011. The tour lasted for 21 days and covered the three major islands of Luzon, Mindanao and Palawan as well as the less visited islands of Bohol and Negros. We
Philippine Falconet – 1, Click Beetle – 0
about 4 months ago - No comments
This is a Philippine Falconet, our country’s smallest endemic raptor, devouring a click beetle. It first started with tearing off the head, then slowly dismembering the poor beetle’s legs while it was still alive and kicking (literally). When the beetle was dead, the cute but deadly falconet started to chow down on the juicy inside
The Uncommon Little Slaty Flycatcher [HD]
about 4 months ago - 1 comment
This is a video of the uncommon Little Slaty Flycatcher, Ficedula basilanica digiscoped in the remaining forests of PICOP, a former logging concession in Surigao del Sur, Eastern Mindanao. This endemic flycatcher is a lowland Mindanao endemic, preferring the understory of forests and second growth. It has a very soft call and can be a
about 1 year ago
Adorable!
about 3 months ago
Awesome bird!!! ….and thank you for showing this to us. I wonder what varities of fruits they like to eat. I want to believe they also would eat Pili nuts, but those might be too large for their beak and throat.