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- Title:
- Beach Eggs 50-70% Yolk
- Description:
- Magellan’s men arrived during the breeding season of the Megapodius cumingii — better known as the big-footed TABON bird. Pigafetta saw them on Gatighan Island seemingly near Leyte. They are terrestrial like chicken, but are black with a long tail. They do not incubate their eggs but bury them in sun-warmed sand. Chicks have strong claws to help them leave their shells. Pigafetta wrote: TABON eggs were known to be good food. They inhabit mangrove and beach forests, roosting on trees at night. The cumingii is common to the Philippines, Borneo, Sulawesi. But if the eggs are eaten, the bird might get extinct!
- Subjects:
- Cumingii Tabon bird
- Exhibition:
- Magellan Menu
- Source:
- Fr. Francisco Ignacio Alcina’s 9 volumes about Visayan culture published in 1668.
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Beach Eggs 50-70% Yolk", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll019.html