LIST: Names of Birds in Pangasinan

LIST: Names of birds in Pangasinan

anuyaw, anoyao - a rice bird

arukutok - zebra dove

babantos - a bird whose crow is like the howling of a dog

baga - kite, a bird of prey

bagsit - a small bird with a huge beak

bakongin - a rooster that has somewhat yellow color

balangebeng - a water fowl like duck

balonkawitan - a rooster with big spurs

bambantok - a bird that sings according to its name

batarin - chicken with dark red plumes

bil-lit, bilitsina - a term for a little bird?

botbot - an owl; syn. kolayot

botot - an ashen colored bird bigger than a raven whose head had specks of red; looks like an owl

buwabu - wood pigeon or ring dove

caballeron berde - possibly guaiabero

colasisi, kulasisi - Philippine hanging parakeet/parrot

dulakak - brown heron

duyaw - a bird like the golden oriole with yellow color and gray spots; black-naped oriole

gikgik - a black and white bird with spots on its breast

ising - a green bird somewhat bigger than a kolasisi (guaiabero?)

itik - domesticated duck

kakalasan - rooster or hen of the mountain

kalangay - a type of parrot that is all white

kalaw - a medium-sized bird with a big beak

kalipatong - a small swallow-like bird but black and white

kanaway - any bird whose plumes are all white

kanaway - white heron

kangkang - a bird of prey

kangkang - general term for bird?

kasili - cormorant

kerek - moorhen?

kitkitiw - a small bird with red feet

kolasisi, kulasisi - small parrot; maybe colasisi, Philippine hanging parrot

kolayot - a bird that looks like an owl; also called botbot

kulekek - crow

kolikik, kulikik - wild duck in general; the domesticated one is called itik

kolipat - a bird of prey that can sustain its flight without wagging its wings (brahminy kite?)

kulayot - owl

lalawigan - pied fantail

loro - possibly Luzon racket-tailed parrot

malapati - domesticated dove

mamabuy - a bird the size of a turkey that is black and white

manalokatok - a bird that uses its beak to bore hole in coconut trees (woodpecker?)

mananairing - a green bird

manaol - a bird of prey which catches suckling pig and fish out of the water and carries them

manilompana - swallow

manok - generic term for bird

maya - Eurasian tree sparrow, chestnut munia, scaly breasted munia

palekpek - maybe red turtle dove or zebra dove

paloman batekan - spotted dove

pasiksil - a type of small bird

pato - duck

piloka, piluka - a bird that is not big; yellow-vented bulbul?

piyoos - a bird resembling the thrush

ponay - a green bird similar to turtledove in size (emerald dove?)

pugo - quail

saksakulap - owl species; frogmouth?

salaksak - a green bird with a red breast

salasak - kingfisher

sibong - term for younglings

sikling - a mottled bird (barred rail?)

sisimpolot - a small bird that sings strong and loud

suwit, siwit, siwet - Eurasian tree sparrow

tagispolo - a bird of prey

taraz, taras - brown shrike

tigkalak - blue and white colored bird (blue collared kingfisher?)

titikot - munia?

togilek - chestnut-colored bird

wawak - crow

yeyekep - a tiny bird

Sources:

local residents

Pangasinan folk songs: "Paloman Datekan," "Oala'y Manok kon Taraz"

Pangasinan Pinablin Dalin (2015) by the Pangasinan Historical and Cultural Commission: Geologic and Human Origins, Past and Present Geographies by Erwin S. Fernandez; Ancient Pangasinan at Point of Contact by Fe dela Luna A. Andico, Sheila Marie M. Dasig, Ma. Cristina B. Daligcon

Cosgaya's Pangasinan-Spanish Dictionary

Jayson Ibañez: paloman batekan - spotted dove; palekpek - zebra dove; loro - possibly Luzon racket-tailed parrot; caballeron berde - possibly guayabero; duyaw - black-naped oriole; colasisi - Philippine hanging parakeet/parrot

Melchor Orpilla

Santiago Villafania