{"id":325578,"date":"2026-03-12T07:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/325578\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T07:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:50:10","slug":"pef-announces-new-philippine-eagle-chick-bayani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/325578\/","title":{"rendered":"PEF announces new Philippine Eagle chick \u201cBayani\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAVAO CITY (MindaNews \/ 12 March) \u2014 The Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) announced on Tuesday that chick no. 32, a three-month-old named \u201cBayani,\u201d was successfully hatched on December 5, 2025, through cooperative artificial insemination at the newly established National Bird Breeding Sanctuary in Barangay Eden, Toril, Davao City.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"942\" height=\"628\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/12bayani-942x628.jpg\" alt=\"12bayani\" class=\"wp-image-219731\" title=\"PEF announces new Philippine Eagle chick \u201cBayani\u201d 1\"  \/>\u2018Bayani,\u2019 the Philippine Eagle chick. Screengrab from PEF\u2019s Facebook page<\/p>\n<p>In a press statement, PEF said that Bayani, a Filipino word for \u201cHero,\u201d was named by German company Procon Grumback, the adopter of the young raptor, to celebrate the \u201ccourage and hope carried by every young Philippine Eagle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to PEF, the company is a developer of modern incubator systems currently used by its conservation team at the breeding sanctuary, providing critical technology that supports the careful incubation and early development of Philippine Eagle eggs.<\/p>\n<p>Bayani is the offspring of Dakila and Sinag, both rescued Philippine eagles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Philippine Eagle Foundation is committed to ensuring and maintaining the young Philippine Eagle\u2019s overall health and well-being,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine eagles\u00a0are listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), with an estimated number of only 400 pairs left in the wild, PEF said.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, PEF uploaded a clip on its Facebook page showing Bayani\u2019s development milestones, including its first sunbath at five days old, its first wing exercise at seven weeks old, and the gradual growth of its feathers and wings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom its early days after hatching to its steady growth, Bayani\u2019s journey reflects the dedication behind our conservation breeding program for the critically endangered Philippine Eagle,\u201d PEF wrote. (Antonio L. Colina IV \/ MindaNews)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAVAO CITY (MindaNews \/ 12 March) \u2014 The Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) announced on Tuesday that chick no.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-325578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}