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Birdlife of Puerto Galera

 

Some local avifauna you might encounter if they haven't all been shot and eaten yet...

1. Commonly seen

These birds hang around scavenging scraps from discarded waste and the numerous illegal garbage dumps especially behind Sabang and are probably all you are ever going to see

Slender-billed crowSlender-billed crow
Corvus enca
Eurasian Tree SparrowEurasian Tree Sparrow
Passer montanus
Red junglefowlRed Junglefowl
Gallus gallus

2. Less commonly seen

You have a slim chance of seeing these once-common species which are fast disappearing due to land clearing, development, predation by domestic animals and shooting

Collared KingfisherCollared Kingfisher
Todiramphus chloris
Yellow-vented bulbulYellow-vented bulbul
Pycnonotus goiavier
Asian glossy starlingAsian glossy starling
Aplonis panayensis
Black-Naped OrioleBlack-Naped Oriole
Oriolus chinensis
Brahminy KiteBrahminy Kite
Haliastur indus
Brown-throated sunbirdBrown-throated sunbird
Anthreptes malacensis
Coppersmith BarbetCoppersmith barbet
Psilopogon haemacephalus
Philippine magpie-robinPhilippine magpie-robin
Copsychus mindanensis
Cattle EgretCattle Egret
Bubulcus ibis
House SwiftHouse Swift
Apus nipalensis
ColetoColeto
Sarcops calvus
Asian KoelAsian Koel
Eudynamys scolopaceus
Brown ShrikeBrown Shrike
Lanius cristatus
Lowland white-eyeLowland white-eye
Zosterops meyeni
Philippine cuckoo-dovePhilippine cuckoo-dove
Macropygia tenuirostris
Emerald DoveEmerald Dove
Chalcophaps indica
Chestnut MuniaChestnut Munia
Lonchura atricapilla
 

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