Japanese tourists love to visit the town of Sanchez Mira in Cagayan province, not for gold treasure believed to be buried during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, but for birds like the raptor.

This year, a group of 18 conservationists from the Asian Raptor Research and Conservation Network (ARRCN) of Japan with the Raptorwatch Network Philippines (RNP) came to the town on March 19 for their third annual raptor watch and birdwatching ecotour in Northern Luzon.

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