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It frequently moves its tail from side to side, displaying its white tips. The bird's song is composed of diverse, somewhat unmusical, and scratchy whistled phrases. [1] Other names by which this bird is referred to are Maria Capra (Philippines), [2] and tarerekoy (Visayas, Philippines). [3]
A busyador or a swift nest collector [2] is a person who harvests edible bird's nests (namely those created by edible-nest swiftlets, or Aerodramus fuciphagus) in Southeast Asia, and particularly in the Philippines. [1] The nests are made of the birds' solidified saliva, and serve as the main ingredient of bird's nest soup, a delicacy of ...
Songbird is a late-night musical show presented by singer Regine Velasquez in the Philippines. It premiered on GMA Network on May 15, 2008, and ended on August 9, 2008. Each episode has a musical theme at its core which ranges from artist tributes to songs taken from various genres and styles of music.
Female has a brown back, rufous wings and tail, gray head, orange throat and pale eyebrow. Male is somewhat similar to Blue-and-white Flycatcher, but Blue-breasted Blue has orange-fringed white belly. Female somewhat similar to Mugimaki female but has a gray head. Song is a high-pitch, shrill “tsiiiiiiiii!” followed by a variety of lower ...
Song is a pleasant, medium-pitched warbling. Also gives a short descending scratchy song, harsh rasping notes, or a pulsing, downslurred “chew! cew! chew!” [ 2 ] The Philippine magpie-robin was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1775 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen collected on ...
An elderly New York City woman fought off four potential robbers on New Year’s Day. Linda Rosa, a retired MTA worker from East New York in Brooklyn, was on her way to a church service on ...
DALLAS — The home of Tyler Seguin, a longtime Dallas Stars leader and seven-time NHL All-Star, was burglarized last month. This is the second burglary of a high-profile athlete in North Texas ...
The yellow-throated leafbird (Chloropsis palawanensis) is a species of bird in the family Chloropseidae. It is endemic to the Palawan in the Philippines. Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forest. Along with the Philippine leafbird, it is one of the two endemic leafbirds in the country.