Rare Man Among Rare Birds
by Leo B. Domapias
Everything about the breeding and research center of Birds International Inc. is outsize. The facility's area: a six hectare complex tucked away in the Quezon City suburbs. Its residents: 6,000 birds belonging to....
Hidden deep within the urban jungle of metropolitan Manila, surrounded by millions of people, automobiles, buses, jeepnies and terrific traffic jams, lies a 15 acre oasis which gives sanctuary and provides an ideal...
The Spix's macaw has been the focus of international attention over the course of the last 10 years, and in a relatively short span of time, great strides forward have been made in the attempts to save this...
The Great-billed Parrot (Tanygnathus megalorhynchos) is, without a doubt, a visually striking, yet neglected avicultural species. Of the three Tanygnathus species that are aviculturally know (others being the Blue-naped and the...
Just off a highway on the outskirts of Quezon City – sister city to Manila – a four-metre-high wall, topped with shards of glass, stands incongruously within a residential suburb. Access is via an equally high,...
When working with a large number of Psittacines, there is always the chance that, at some stage, an unexpected colour mutation might become apparent from breeding birds which show no external signs...