RACHEL A.G. REYES
The Isabela oriole (Oriolus isabellae) is an enchanting little forest bird endemic to upland Luzon. It has strikingly bright yellow and olive green plumage and distinctive high and low rolling whistle calls. It is an elusive creature and lives in scattered groups in the last remaining patches of virgin forest in the Cagayan and Isabela regions of northern Luzon. One would be extremely lucky to see or hear it in the wild. For a long time the bird was thought to be extinct until it was sighted again in the early 1990s.