Meet Gansa! Gansa means goose, but the Cotton Pygmy-goose is also regarded as the smallest duck found in the country. Illustrated here is a male and female!
They are actually hard to find, as they are considered rare migrant birds in the Philippines.
They were last seen in Candaba in 1979, but were seen again in Apalit, Pampanga last year… more than 40 years after its first sighting (From DENR-BMB Phil CHM).
MORE BIRDS!
- Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica)
- Cinnamon Ibon (Hypocryptadius cinnamomeus)
- Colasisi (Loriculus philippensis)
- Cotton Pygmy-goose (Nettapus coromandelianus)
- Great Egret (Ardea alba)
- Grey-faced Buzzard (Butastur indicus)
- Isabela Oriole (Oriolus isabellae)
- Indigo-banded Kingfisher (Ceyx cyanopectus)
- Philippine Eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi)
- Philippine Duck (Anas luzonica)
- Pygmy Swiftlet (Collocalia troglodytes)
- Rufous-headed hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni)