Here is Part 2 of the Zamboanga Adventure… Day 3: Sta Cruz Grande Island – An Unexpected Birding DayText and photos by John Ricarte It’s 6:30am and Day Three of our Zamboanga birding trip will bring us to the island of Santa Cruz Grande, just off the city’s coast line. It’s quite near and you…
Many heartfelt thanks to Mary June Bugante who put together this amazing trip to Zamboanga. It was a feast of birds, sights, Zamboanga cuisine and laughs and camaraderie. Since the job of writing about four days’ worth of adventure for our Ebon newsletter seemed like an onerous job, we all decided to assign one person…
by Karen Ochavo During the Zamboanga club trip on the first weekend of October, our group absolutely enjoyed not only the birding but also the eating! The food in Zamboanga is greatly influenced by its history, local culture, and natural environment. Many of us were first time visitors to “Asia’s Latin City”, so several of…
Text by Gina Mapua Photos by Riza Melicor and Beng Ricarte As we birded Zamboanga on our club trip in October, we could not help notice the interesting flora and fauna along the roads, forest paths and private gardens. Here are some of those we were able to identify. Identified as Lithocarpus llanosii by a…
by contributing writer Brendan Sloan Note: This article was recently published in the latest issue of BirdingASIA Visayan Shama Kittacincla superciliaris was long considered to be conspecific, essentially the same species, as White Browed Shama Kittacincla luzoniensis which occurs further north in the Philippines mostly on the large island of Luzon. That taxa is split…
by Vincent Alinan Birdwatching is an activity best enjoyed in the company of others, but doing it solo is something I’d recommend other birdwatchers do as well. There is an entirely different and rather unique feel to it. Here is such a trip that I went on and how it turned out. A month or…
by Bayani Barcenas Let me take you to San Pedro City in the boundary of Laguna and Metro Manila. Easily accessible, it’s a quick 20-minute drive from Makati. You can call it Laguna’s gateway to Metro Manila. It was “citified” only recently in March 2013. A city with a suburban vibe, San Pedro is your…
by Ruth Francisco AJ, ecologist, ornithologistBorn in Denmark, raised in Copenhagen Christian, retireeBorn and raised in France Gina, looking for a job or businessBorn and raised in Bacolod City Willem, conservation biologist from Someren, Netherlands Childhood Dream Job AJ: ZookeeperChristian: Air pilotGina: Ballerina (‘till I realized I had absolutely no rhythm)Willem: Carpenter or pilot Favorite…
DAURIAN STARLING Agropsar sturninusPhoto by George Inocencio Subic, ZambalesOctober 2019 We were on Day-2 of our weekend birding in Subic. The morning had been pretty quiet and we decided to move farther from Crown Peak area towards Nabasan Trail. Passing through the Subic Airport road, we paused to take photos of some Brown Shrikes and…
by Mike Lu September 7 – Club trip, International Rice Research Institute The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is located on the foothills of Mount Makiling in Laguna. Its rice fields host a good number of resident birds and during the latter part of the year becomes a wintering ground for migratory birds. Club Trips…
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