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Post by Enrique Frio on Apr 23, 2011 23:53:13 GMT
They are all very beautiful, well done!! Regards, Tom Thanks, Tom! I would love more focal length, though. Work in progress ....
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Post by des on May 7, 2011 9:26:04 GMT
The Siquijor Streak-breasted Bulbul is a very distinct bird - check out OBI for photos. The Cebu form is also different so we should only consider the Romblon and Tablas birds as being similar. I believe there are still plenty in the remaining watershed forests of Tablas, though these are now only a few square km. The photos you have posted are very beautiful. I suspect that you have many more photos, that while not as pretty are maybe even more valuable scientifically. Your trip probably produced fifteen new island records for Romblon - including the Pied Bushchat you show here. Could you post any of the others?
Great egret Intermediate egret Cattle egret Oriental honeybuzzard Chinese goshawk White-browed crake Common sandpiper Spotted dove Barn swallow Philippine bulbul Striated grassbird Zitting cisticola Blue-headed fantail Crimson sunbird
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Post by Enrique Frio on May 9, 2011 14:31:05 GMT
The Siquijor Streak-breasted Bulbul is a very distinct bird - check out OBI for photos. The Cebu form is also different so we should only consider the Romblon and Tablas birds as being similar. I believe there are still plenty in the remaining watershed forests of Tablas, though these are now only a few square km. The photos you have posted are very beautiful. I suspect that you have many more photos, that while not as pretty are maybe even more valuable scientifically. Your trip probably produced fifteen new island records for Romblon - including the Pied Bushchat you show here. Could you post any of the others? ... Hi Des, Most of the birds you mentioned were IDed by Mark, though some of these we jointly confirmed. I had no photos of those that were too far away (Mark [MW] IDed them using binoculars), and one that was just too dark to lock focus on (the Blue-headed fantail which Mark IDed; I was not able to concur as it flew away while I was trying to lock focus.). I also had the tendency to get a bit behind (to Mark's chagrin) on the trek to set up and photograph birds so Mark sometimes was the only one to see some of the other birds ahead. Great egret [saw/IDed by MW, no photos] Intermediate egret [see below] Cattle egret [see below] Oriental honeybuzzard [saw/IDed by MW, no photos] Chinese goshawk [saw/IDed by MW, no photos] White-browed crake [saw/IDed by MW, no photos] Common sandpiper [saw/IDed by MW, no photos] Spotted dove [see below] Barn swallow [saw/IDed, no photos, EF + MW = there were quite a lot perched mostly on the town square's electrical wires] Philippine bulbul [see below] Striated grassbird [saw/IDed, no photos, EF + MW] Zitting cisticola [saw/IDed by MW, no photos] Blue-headed fantail [saw/IDed, no photos, MW; EF not sure as it was too dark to photograph and I missed this bird] Crimson sunbird [saw/IDed by MW, no photos]
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Post by des on May 9, 2011 14:52:17 GMT
Hi Enrique, Many thanks. It is worrying that there are now Philippine Bulbuls on Romblon as they will probably spread to Tablas and put the endemic Tablas Bulbuls under more pressure, as they have the Cebu Bulbuls on Cebu.
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Post by Lydia Robledo on May 9, 2011 16:14:24 GMT
Enjoyed immensely -- i had goo-goo eyes with glee. Our birdwatcher friend, Helly Asoy, (Tacloban WBCP Chapter) will be very happy with this gallery. Sibuyan is where she was born and where she grew up and treasured the Island in her younger days. Thanks for sharing. telyds
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Post by Enrique Frio on May 10, 2011 2:38:54 GMT
Hi Enrique, Many thanks. It is worrying that there are now Philippine Bulbuls on Romblon as they will probably spread to Tablas and put the endemic Tablas Bulbuls under more pressure, as they have the Cebu Bulbuls on Cebu. Thanks Des - I agree with your observations. I wonder how the PBs were able to get to Romblon Island - of course, they can fly, but maybe they were accidentally introduced? The ETS population is really very low - the Asian glossy starlings are the new ETS (or has it always been that way in Romblon?). I dug up what could possibly be the Oriental honeybuzzard - these two are the same bird (based on my shot data of < 1 min apart) - please confirm:
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Post by Enrique Frio on May 10, 2011 2:42:41 GMT
Enjoyed immensely -- i had goo-goo eyes with glee. Our birdwatcher friend, Helly Asoy, (Tacloban WBCP Chapter) will be very happy with this gallery. Sibuyan is where she was born and where she grew up and treasured the Island in her younger days. Thanks for sharing. telyds Thanks, Telyds! I am glad to have been able to photograph these birds. I also enjoyed looking at the marble products and seeing how they were made. The culture is very laid-back but modern. As Manny Pacquaio said, "meyk pipol hapi" is always heart-warming.
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Post by des on May 10, 2011 7:04:09 GMT
Yes it looks like migrant race Oriental Honey Buzzard to me. The Philippine Bulbuls may have come from Banton - ssp philippinus, or Panay - ssp guimarasensis, but apparently not from Mindoro.
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Post by des on Dec 31, 2014 13:17:47 GMT
Yes it looks like migrant race Oriental Honey Buzzard to me. The Philippine Bulbuls may have come from Banton - ssp philippinus, or Panay - ssp guimarasensis, but apparently not from Mindoro. Time marches on and I have to confess to 2 misIDs here. The bulbul is a Tablas-Romblon Streak-breasted Bulbul, so there is no need to worry! The raptor is a Grey-faced Buzzard. Des
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Post by Agerico M. De Villa on Jan 3, 2015 6:29:15 GMT
Agree, wonderful harvest! Good photographs! Even the backlighted ones have turned out okay! Congratulations! Thanks for highlighting Romblon. Now we are interested!
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