WATERBIRDS. Philippine Mallards and Wandering Whistling Ducks are spotted in Maqueda Bay in Jiabong, Samar in this undated photo. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has recorded at least 2,173 endemic and migratory waterbirds in its latest survey held in seven sites in Eastern Visayas from Jan. 9 to 20, 2023. (Photo courtesy of DENR) TACLOBAN CITY - The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has recorded at least 2,173 endemic and migratory waterbirds in its latest survey held in seven sites in Eastern Visayas. In a report released Thursday, the DENR 8 (Eastern Visayas) said the Asian Waterbird Census (AWC) was conducted from Jan. 9 to 20. It recorded the sighting of egrets, herons, Philippine ducks, shanks, common sandpipers, plovers, moorhens, curlews, terns, kingfishers, black-winged stilts, great knots, and crows. The department also reported a rare sighting of the Eurasian coot in the Maqueda Bay Wetlands. Known as the Australian coot, it is
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