Map of the Philippines & the Best Birding Sites
Family Groups of Birds found in the Philippines:
Parrots ... Seabirds, Waders, Wetland and Inland Water Birds ... Doves & Pigeons ... Cuckoos and Coucals
Babblers ... Bulbuls ... Kingfishers ... Swifts & Swiftlets ... White-eyes
Listing of birds (other than parrots) native to, or found in, the Philippines:
Photos of Birds
A - N or O - Z (below)
Olive-backed Pipit (Anthus hodgsoni) - Winters across Asia, from peninsular India, east to southeast Asia and the Philippines.
Olive-backed Sunbird aka Yellow-bellied Sunbird (Cinnyris jugularis)
Oriental Magpie Robin (Copsychus saularis)
Paddyfield Pipit (Anthus rufulus)
Palawan Peacock Pheasant (Polyplectron napoleonis) aka Napoleon Peacock Pheasant - Palawan Island in the Philippines Archipelago
Philippine Creepers or Rhabdornises
Philippine Frogmouth (Batrachostomus septimus) - A nocturnal bird that is found throughout the Philippine archipelago. Common in lowland forests and maturing second growth
Philippine Leaf-warbler (Phylloscopus olivaceus)
Philippine Megapode (Megapodius cumingii) - also known as the Philippine Scrubfowl or the Tabon Scrubfowl
Pied Triller (Lalage nigra)
Red-crested Malkoha (Phaenicophaeus superciliosus) - Endemic
Rufous Hornbill (Buceros hydrocorax), also known as Philippine Hornbill or Kalaw: Found on Luzon and Marinduque, Samar, Leyte, Bohol, Panaon, Biliran, Calicoan and Buad, Dinagat, Siargao, Mindanao (plus Balut, Bucas and Talicud) and Basilan. It is still common locally, notably in the Sierra Madre of Luzon.
Scale-feathered Malkoha (Phaenicophaeus cumingi) - Endemic
Scarlet Minivet (Pericrocotus flammeus)
Short-crested Monarch (Hypothymis helenae) - Endemic
Sulu Hornbill or Montano's Hornbill (Anthracoceros montani)
Stripe-breasted Rhabdornis or Plain-headed Creeper (Rhabdornis inornatus) - Endemic
Stripe-headed Creepers or Stripe-headed Rhabdornises (Rhabdornis mysticalis) - Range: Philippine Islands of Luzon, Negros, Panay, Masbate, Contanduenes, Leyte, Mindanao, Samar, Basilan, Bohol, Calicoan and Dinagat
White-browed Shama (Copsychus luzoniensis)
White-cheeked Bullfinch (Pyrrhula leucogenis)
White-fronted Tit (Cyanistes semilarvatus) - Endemic
White-lored Oriole (Oriolus albiloris)
White-vented Shama (Copsychus niger) es
White-vented Whistler (Pachycephala homeyeri)
White-winged Cuckooshrike (Coracina ostenta) - Endemic
Yellow-bellied Whistler (Pachycephala philippinensis)
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