Monday, February 04, 2008
Town bares list of resident and migratory birds
By Raymond C. Garcia
THE Candaba Municipal Government has revealed the list among its resident and migratory birds in the Candaba swamp.
Since 1940, there are about 49 species of resident birds that were recorded by in Candaba swamp.
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Among them include the Barred Rail, Black Bittern, Blue-Talied Bee-Eater, Bright-Capped Cisticola, Buff-Banded Rail, Cattle Egret, Chestnut Munia, Cinnamon Bittern, Clamorous Reed-Warbler, Common Moorhen, Crested Myna, Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Grass Owl, Greater Painted Snipe, Island Collared- Dove, Island Swiftlet, Lesser Coucal, Little Grebe, Little ringed-Plover, Long-Tailed Shrike, Olive-Backed Sunbird, Oriental Skylark, Pacific Swallow and Peregrine Falcon.
The list also include Pheasant-Tailed Jacana, Philippine Coucal, Philippine Duck, Pied Bushchat, Pied Fantail, Pied Harrier, Plain Bush-Hen, Purple Heron, Purple Swamphen, Richard's Pipit, Scaly-Breasted Munia, Spot-Billed Pelican, Spotted Dove, Striated Grassbird, Tawny Grassbird, Wandering Whistling-Duck, Watercock, White-Breasted Waterhen, White-Breasted Wood-Swallow, White-Breasted Browed-Crake, White Collared Kingfisher, Yellow-Vented Bulbul, Yellow Bittern, Zebra Dove and Zitting Cisticola.
Meanwhile, there are about 52 species of Migratory birds in Candaba's list in Candaba swamp since 1940.
These are the Asian Golden-Plover, Baer's Pochard, Bailon's Crake, Barn Swallow, Black-Crowned Night-Heron, Balck-Winged Stilt, Brown Shrike, Chinese Pond-Heron, Common Greenshank, Common Kingfisher, Common Pochard, Common Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Common Snipe, Common Teal, Eastern Marsh-Harrier, Eurasian Coot, Eurasian Spoonbill, Eurasian Wigeon, Garganey, Great Egret, Great Cormorant, Greater Scaup, Grey Heron, Grey Wagtail, Green-Winged Teal, Intermediate Egret and the Kentish Plover.
Also included are the Little Egret, Long- Toed Stint, Marsh Sandpiper, Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler, Northern Pintail, Northern Shoveler, Oriental Prantincloe, Oriental Reed Warbler, Osprey, Pacific Golden Plover, Ruff, Schrenck's Bittern, Sharp-Tailed Sandpiper, Siberian Rubythroat, Singing Bushlurk, Spot-Billed Duck, Streaked Reed- Warbler, Swinhoe's Snipe, Tufted Duck, Whiskered Tern, White- Shouldered Starling, White-Winged Tern, Wood Sandpiper and the Yellow Wagtail.
The Municipal Government led by Mayor Jerry Pelayo prohibits any form of hunting and sporting on both resident and migratory birds here in order to avoid their extinction.
Based on its socio-economic profile, Candaba is noted for its productive farmlands where sweet watermelons were made popular.
It is also known for its wide and scenic swamps, mudfish, catfish and its migratory birds that are on their continuous growing popularity not only among bird fanatics and tourists but also among local folks from nearby towns and provinces.
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