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Birds of the Philippines

Photos and videos of wild birds found in the Philippines. We travel all over the Philippines to document and take pictures of birds. Our goal is to make this site a resource of information and images about wild birds of the Philippines.

  1. Birds By Location

Batanes

We visited the islands of Batan and Sabtang. It was our first time to visit any part of Batanes. The view and and birds were amazing. We had a good number of new birds and a great time.

Unless we visit Itbayat, this could be the furthest North we will reach for birding in the Philippines.
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A video of our trip to Batanes in 2011 with Christian, Robert and Franco.
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A video of our trip to Batanes in 2011 with Christian, Robert and Franco.

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  • A video of our trip to Batanes in 2011 with Christian, Robert and Franco.
  • TUFTED DUCK with immature LITTLE GREBES
Sabtang, Batanes, Philippines

more pictures in the <a href="http://tonjiandsylviasbirdlist.smugmug.com/List/Geese-and-Ducks/Tufted-Duck/10800699_FcBbKD">Tufted Duck gallery</a>
  • GREAT CORMORANT
<i>Phalacrocorax carbo</i>
Sabtang, Batanes

more pictures in the <a href="http://tonjiandsylviasbirdlist.smugmug.com/List/Cormorant/Great-Cormorant/19887640_8BF57J">Great Cormorant gallery</a>
  • GREAT CORMORANT
<i>Phalacrocorax carbo</i>
Sabtang, Batanes

more pictures in the <a href="http://tonjiandsylviasbirdlist.smugmug.com/List/Cormorant/Great-Cormorant/19887640_8BF57J">Great Cormorant gallery</a>
  • GREY HERON
<i>Ardea cinerea</i>
Batan, Batanes, Philippines

more pictures in the <a href="http://tonjiandsylviasbirdlist.smugmug.com/List/Herons-and-Bitterns/Grey-Heron/7354136_qX5T66">Grey Heron gallery</a>
  • GREAT EGRET 
<i>Egretta alba</i> 
Batan, Batanes, Philippines
  • EASTERN REEF-EGRET
<i>Egretta sacra</i>
Batan, Batanes, Philippines
  • CHINESE POND HERON
<i>Ardeola bacchus</i>
Batan, Batanes, Philippines

We saw this bird in the island of Batan. We think we can id this bird as a Chinese Pond Heron even if its not in breeding plumage because of the dusky wing tips that are visible in the in-flight shots. We are basing this on A Field Guide to the Birds of South-east Asia by Craig Robson where he says the Chinese Pond Heron in non-breeding is "often with dusky tips to primaries" and "possibly indistinguishable from other pond-herons but may tend to show more obvious dusky tips to outermost primaries than Javan".

We are presuming that it is a Chinese Pond Heron based on the distribution. But most of the experts would probably be more comfortable if we called this bird a Pond Heron species since it is not in breeding plumage.
  • BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON
<i>Nycticorax nycticorax</i>
Sabtang, Batanes
  • NORTHERN PINTAIL, female
<i>Anas acuta</i>
Sabtang, Batanes, Philippines

more pictures in the <a href="http://tonjiandsylviasbirdlist.smugmug.com/List/Geese-and-Ducks/NP/10680687_H36ZHb">Northern Pintail gallery</i>
  • Northern Pintail female, Spot-billed Ducks, and Tufted Duck
  • COMMON TEAL, female
<i>Anas crecca</i>
Sabtang, Batanes, Philippines

with an immature Common Moorhen and a Garganey
  • SPOT-BILLED DUCK
<i>Anas poecilorhyncha</i>
Sabtang, Batanes

more pictures in the <a href="http://tonjiandsylviasbirdlist.smugmug.com/List/Geese-and-Ducks/Spot-billed-Duck/19918925_HXzGC3">Spot-billed Duck gallery</a>
  • EURASIAN WIGEON, male in eclipse plumage
<i>Anas penelope</i>
Sabtabg, Batanes, Philippines

More pictures in the <a href="http://tonjiandsylviasbirdlist.smugmug.com/List/Geese-and-Ducks/Eurasian-Wigeon/20055222_NmzXtg">Eurasian Wigeon gallery</i>
  • TUFTED DUCK
<i>Aythya fuligula</i>
Sabtang, Batanes, Philippines

more pictures in the <a href="http://tonjiandsylviasbirdlist.smugmug.com/List/Geese-and-Ducks/Tufted-Duck/10800699_FcBbKD">Tufted Duck gallery</a>
  • NORTHERN SHOVELER, female
<i>Anas clypeata</i>
Sabtang, Batanes, Philippines
  • PEREGRINE FALCON and WHITE BELLIED SEA-EAGLE
<i>Falco peregrinus and <i>Haliaeestus leucogaster</i>
Batan, Batanes, Philippines

Mid-air skirmish! The Peregrine Falcon was the agressor!

more pictures in the <a href="http://tonjiandsylviasbirdlist.smugmug.com/List/Eagles-Serpent-Eagles/White-bellied-Sea-Eagle/20129986_jfZrV9"> White Bellied Sea-eagle gallery</a>
  • EURASIAN KESTREL
<i>Falco tinnuculus</i>
Sabtang, Batanes, Philippines

more pictures in the <a href="http://tonjiandsylviasbirdlist.smugmug.com/List/Falcons/ek/11035492_CSm33g">Eurasian Kestrel gallery</a>
  • COMMON MOORHEN, immature
<i>Gallinula chloropus</i>
Sabtang, Batanes
  • ASIAN GOLDEN PLOVER
<i>Pluvialis fulva</i>
Batan, Batanes
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