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Mt. Makiling - Part XII

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I must have been smitten by this enchanted mountain as I return once again to try my luck on its beautiful birds. For the second straight visit in a row, I was able to behold the very handsome Philippine Trogon. Twice too I failed to get a pic of this most wanted bird. Well, I'll keep on trying... end of summer and the onset of the next rainy season is still lightyears away...8-)
Pygmy Flowerpecker 
(a Philippine endemic, female) 

Scientific name - Dicaeum pygmaeum 

Habitat - Common, noisy and active in the canopy or high understory 
of forest, edge and second growth, usually below 1000 m but recorded higher.
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Pygmy Flowerpecker
(a Philippine endemic, female)

Scientific name - Dicaeum pygmaeum

Habitat - Common, noisy and active in the canopy or high understory
of forest, edge and second growth, usually below 1000 m but recorded higher.

Pygmy Flowerpecker 
(a Philippine endemic, female) 

Scientific name - Dicaeum pygmaeum 

Habitat - Common, noisy and active in the canopy or high understory 
of forest, edge and second growth, usually below 1000 m but recorded higher.
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Pygmy Flowerpecker
(a Philippine endemic, female)

Scientific name - Dicaeum pygmaeum

Habitat - Common, noisy and active in the canopy or high understory
of forest, edge and second growth, usually below 1000 m but recorded higher.

Pygmy Flowerpecker 
(a Philippine endemic, female) 

Scientific name - Dicaeum pygmaeum 

Habitat - Common, noisy and active in the canopy or high understory 
of forest, edge and second growth, usually below 1000 m but recorded higher.
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Pygmy Flowerpecker
(a Philippine endemic, female)

Scientific name - Dicaeum pygmaeum

Habitat - Common, noisy and active in the canopy or high understory
of forest, edge and second growth, usually below 1000 m but recorded higher.

Pygmy Flowerpecker 
(a Philippine endemic, female) 

Scientific name - Dicaeum pygmaeum 

Habitat - Common, noisy and active in the canopy or high understory 
of forest, edge and second growth, usually below 1000 m but recorded higher.
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Pygmy Flowerpecker
(a Philippine endemic, female)

Scientific name - Dicaeum pygmaeum

Habitat - Common, noisy and active in the canopy or high understory
of forest, edge and second growth, usually below 1000 m but recorded higher.

Spotted Wood-kingfisher 
(a Philippine endemic, male) 

Scientific name - Actenoides lindsayi 

Habitat - Fairly common in lowland forest understory, perches motionless in dark recesses.
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Spotted Wood-kingfisher
(a Philippine endemic, male)

Scientific name - Actenoides lindsayi

Habitat - Fairly common in lowland forest understory, perches motionless in dark recesses.

Spotted Wood-kingfisher 
(a Philippine endemic, male) 

Scientific name - Actenoides lindsayi 

Habitat - Fairly common in lowland forest understory, perches motionless in dark recesses.
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Spotted Wood-kingfisher
(a Philippine endemic, male)

Scientific name - Actenoides lindsayi

Habitat - Fairly common in lowland forest understory, perches motionless in dark recesses.

Grey-faced Buzzard

Scientific name - Butastur indicus

Habitat - Forest edge and open forest.
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Grey-faced Buzzard

Scientific name - Butastur indicus

Habitat - Forest edge and open forest.

Buzzing Flowerpecker 
(a Philippine endemic) 

Scientific name - Dicaeum hypoleucum 

Habitat - Common in forest, edge and scrub, below 1500 m.
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Buzzing Flowerpecker
(a Philippine endemic)

Scientific name - Dicaeum hypoleucum

Habitat - Common in forest, edge and scrub, below 1500 m.

Philippine Fairy-Bluebird 
(a Philippine endemic) 

Scientific name - Irena cyanogaster cyanogaster 

Habitat - Common in forest canopy, below 1000 m.
Philippine Fairy-Bluebird

Philippine Fairy-Bluebird
(a Philippine endemic)

Scientific name - Irena cyanogaster cyanogaster

Habitat - Common in forest canopy, below 1000 m.