FARMER RESCUES HAWK EAGLE TRAPPED IN TREE
by Belly Ortodoz

LUCENA CITY - The Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Quezon province retrieved a changeable hawk eagle from a farmer who had found and brought the bird of prey to the Center for Philippine Raptors in UPLB, Los Baños, Laguna.
Protected area Supt. Sally Pangan led the group that retrieved the bird from Ruel Aquitania, a farmer from Barangay Ibabang Bukal in Tayabas, Quezon, who claimed he found the eagle hanging on a Batino tree.
Aquitania took the eagle home and contacted the Tnggol Kalikasan, a legal interest environmental group that immediately alerted the DENR.
On June 10 the group brought the eagle to the Center for Philippine Raptors where it is to be taken care of properly and its wound tended.
The DENR gave Aquitania the right to name the eagle. He named it Bukal in honor of the place where was found. Bukal weighed 1.3 kilos and with a wingspan of 42 inches.
Michael Sanchez, biologist and project site officer, told The Times that the center has three Philippine eagle (Phitecophaga jefferyi) and they launched a massive information dissemination to schools and communities for the people to know the importance of the national bird to the environmental cycle.
Bukal was the center of the celebration of the Philippine Eagle Week on June 4-10.

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