By racquel m. caldez
ILAGAN, Isabela – University of the Philippines (UP) Los Baños student presented recently the research proposal entitled “Comparative Analysis of Hornbill Densities, Diet Movement and Hunting Pressure across Three Different Habitat Gradient”
Juan Carlos Gonzalez, a faculty on leave of the Institute of Biological Sciences of Arts and Sciences who requested for a permit from the Protected Area Management Board (PAMB) to conduct research study within the Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park (NSMNP) in Palanan explained the rationale for field research on ecology, evolution and conservation of Philippine Hornbills during the scheduled Executive Committee Meeting of the PAMB held at the DENR Office in this town.
The UP student said the Palanan Forest Dynamics Plot (PFLP) field station represents the base camp located at the centre of the study area, where 4.0 sq. m grids are set-up varying in disturbance gradient such as the primary on old growth lowland tropical rainforest (NW grid), selectively-logged or residual lowland tropical rainforest (central grid) and Degraded or secondary growth tropical rainforest (SE grid)
The research proponent intends to capture the Hornbills from nests using mist-nets then recapture after two weeks to retrieve data logged Geographical Positioning System (GPS) fixes to reveal baseline information about the foraging and breeding ecology.
Philippine Hornbill locally named Kalaw also known as Rufous Hornbill (Buceros hydrocorax) is a large species of hornbill endemic to the Phillippines, where it occurs in primary, mature secondary notably in the Sierra Madre of Luzon and are least studied in the world. The bol of the nominate subspecies is all red, while the bills of the subspecies semigaleatus and mindanensis are pale yellow on the distal half.#
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