Mar 9, 2022
Meet Papan! This is our own Philippine Duck, which can only be found in our country. They can be identified by their blue-gray bills and a strip of iridescence above their wings, most evident while they fly. They are beautiful upclose, but they can be hard to observe because they are extremely shy... they fly away easily as people approach them. Thousands of them are counted every year during the Asian Waterbird Census, but they are listed as Vulnerable in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Artprint: https://society6.com/product/philippine-duck-or-papan-in-filipino-and-baybayin-anas-luzonica_print
