Bird Videos

Ashy-breasted Flycatcher is back!
[but now in HD]

The Ashy-breasted Flycatchers are back in the same spot from four years ago! (See the discovery back in 2008, here.)

This Ashy-breasted Flycatcher is a rare endemic that is confined to the islands of Luzon and Negros. Recent reports of this special bird come from very few localities such as Sawa/Hamut Camp in Northern Luzon, Twin Lakes in Dumaguete and the closest and most accessible, Mt. Makiling in Laguna, Luzon.

Like a lot of the Philippine endemics, this species is poorly-known with very little literature on species and breeding behavior.

Ashy-breasted Flycatcher, Muscicapa randi
November 2012, Makiling Botanical Gardens, Mt. Makiling, Laguna, Luzon, Philippines

Ashy-breasted Flycatcher

A pair of Sooty Woodpeckers [HD]

Check out this pair of Sooty Woodpeckers digiscoped last June in the superb forests of Subic in Luzon. This is a male and female pair, the male bird having a crimson red face while the female has a plain sooty black face. The Sooty Woodpecker is endemic to the Philippines and ranges only in the islands of Luzon, Catanduanes, Marinduque, Polillio, Leyte, Samar and Mindanao.

Sooty Woodpeckers, Mulleripicus funebris
June 2012, Subic Rainforest, Zambales and Bataan

Sooty Woodpecker