ENDEMIC BIRDS OF LASAM, CAGAYAN

Cagayan Province is the most picturesque place in northern Philippines. It is also a center of rich biodiversity, both fauna and flora. With its mighty forests arching on its back, the northern Sierra Madre is yet to be the last frontier in the country to be explored. The province is therefore a haven for biologists, conservationists, spelunkers and travelling scientists.

The Philippine blue mountain bird (Sialia currucoides) perches hideous amid alibago leaves. Captured in the canopy forest of Bantay Kulian at Brgy. Malinta, Lasam, Cagayan, it was a living evidence that Cagayan Province possesses a place in biodiversity conservation.