#flyways

It's going to take a lot of interdepartmental cooperation, and the public continuing to put pressure on decision-makers to follow through with this policy, but this is a great step forward. Let's keep up the momentum!

Meet Papan! This is our own Philippine Duck, which can only be found in our country. They can be identified by their blue-gray bills and a strip of iridescence above their wings, most evident while they fly. They are beautiful upclose, but they can be hard to observe because they are extremely shy... they fly away easily as people approach them. Thousands of them are counted every year during the Asian Waterbird Census, but they are listed as Vulnerable in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Artprint: https://society6.com/product/philippine-duck-or-papan-in-filipino-and-baybayin-anas-luzonica_print

moumoon - Flyways

Tagak says hi! Tagak can refer to different egret species found in our wetlands and coastlines. Here is a Great Egret or Ardea alba. She is a beautiful, large egret, that is predominantly white with a yellow beak. They can usually be differentiated from other egrets like Little Egrets or Cattle Egrets by their larger sizes, longer necks, black legs, and yellow beaks. Artprint: https://society6.com/product/great-egret-or-tagak-in-filipino-and-baybayin-ardea-alba_mini-art-print

Meet Talingting or the Bar-tailed Godwit! If you're lucky you can see them in wetland areas at the coastline during the migratory season. Migratory birds like them begin to visit us between September and March. Which means some of them are getting ready for their journeys back north to breed this month! For the Talingting, this can be a non-stop journey in the air of 10,000 km. They travel through the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, which is like a "highway in the sky" for our migratory birds. The East Asian-Australasian Flyway partnership works with bird-lovers and scientists in multiple countries including ours, to ensure migratory birds like Talingting can travel safely in this "highway in the sky". It's nice to travel without a passport, but it can be difficult for migratory birds if countries are not taking care of feeding and breeding grounds inside their borders. In the Visayas, Talingting may refer to multiple species of small shorebirds with pointed beaks. Artprint: https://society6.com/product/bar-tailed-godwit-or-limosa-lapponica6583187_print

moumoon "Triangle" (FULLMOON LIVE TOUR 2018 - Flyways ~ in Ebisu The Garden Hall)

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