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Post by agsfernando on Jan 16, 2012 8:32:17 GMT
we saw a lot of ducks in Sabtang Island, Batanes and these two are just some of them . . .
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Post by agsfernando on Jan 16, 2012 8:34:29 GMT
this dove/pigeon was caught recently (according to the owner) in Sabtang and is now kept as a pet along with another dove/pigeon of the same kind
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Post by agsfernando on Jan 16, 2012 8:36:56 GMT
a raptor also caught recently in Sabtang Island, Batanes.
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Post by agsfernando on Jan 16, 2012 8:39:45 GMT
same raptor in captivity
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Post by agsfernando on Jan 16, 2012 8:41:19 GMT
birds on the runway of Basco Airport, Batanes
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Post by Tonji Ramos on Jan 16, 2012 9:00:26 GMT
Ducks are Tufted.
Second bird, in a cage sadly, could be a Whistling Green Pigeon
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Post by Tonji Ramos on Jan 16, 2012 9:21:24 GMT
The sad bird in the 3rd and 4th pic has damage to its wings. Some kind of Accipiter. I am no expert but I am guessing a female Besra.
They should have set this bird free. Depressing.
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Post by steve pryor on Jan 16, 2012 9:51:05 GMT
Will try and download the Accipiter and resize (they are too large on my monitor), and look at them along with Tonji's bird from Negros. Tonight if I can find the time.
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Post by des on Jan 16, 2012 11:48:15 GMT
I am in a library with poor internet access but the birds on the runway are Asian Golden Plover, the pigeon looks like Whistling Green, but I doubt the raptor is an Accipiter.
Des
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Post by steve pryor on Jan 16, 2012 12:19:47 GMT
Des, you are probably right. When I see something "accipiterish" in Phils that isn't an Accipiter, it is usually Butastur. In any case, not a Besra - not pug-nosed enough among other things. Not the more compact soloensis, which does have an evident tomial tooth here lacking. Not gularis for a lot of reasons. Forget trivirgatus.
One problem is that we can't judge the primary extension along the rectrices - it looks like they have been damaged - clipped? beaten against the enclosure?, in any case, they are not the length they should be. Weak, and partial mesial, already demonstrating the darker colored shaft streak of the coverts of the Butastur, clean upper mandible tomium (no tooth). Plumage-wise, it is not juvenile - certainly immature in transition - Butastur for me.
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Post by Tonji Ramos on Jan 16, 2012 13:23:06 GMT
Steve and Des, good call. Butastur. It does have a grey face and a white eyebrow like the Grey Faced Buzzard.
When we were in Sabtang a man asked us if we wanted to see his raptor in a cage. I declined. I wonder if this is the same bird.
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