The Philippine Eagle, also known as the King of Philippine birds or Haribon, is one of the largest and strongest eagles in the world. The Philippine Eagle is also classified by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature as critically-endangered because in the wild, there are roughly 400 pairs remaining.

Endemic to the Philippines, the Philippine eagle is only known to live in four different parts of the country namely Samar, Leyte, parts of Luzon and the Mindanao region. The largest number of eagles are found in the Mindanao region. There are about a hundred to two hundred breeding pairs all around the region. In all the other areas, the population of the eagles are more or less 10 pairs.

In the Luzon region, the only known breeding area for the eagles were in the Northern Sierra Madre National Park. Today, in Apayao province in the Northern Philippines, a pair of adult eagles and one eaglet were found in their nesting place. According to a video released by Rappler, an online news network in the Philippines, a ?NATIONAL WONDER? has been discovered in the forests of Apayao.  This makes the province of Apayao that they are now known to be a habitat of the national bird of the Philippines.

The discovery was made by the Philippine Eagle Foundation who found the first active Philippine eagle pair and their nest in the island of Luzon last April.  They have been monitoring the nest and have seen lone eaglet, now three months, old growing strong daily.  The person monitoring is Tatiana Abaño, biologist of the Philippine Eagle Foundation, who announced the finding of the eagles on July 14, 2015 during the Cordillera Day celebrations.

The eaglet has been seen in its nest practicing its flapping and vocalizing.  It eats animals that its parents bring to the eaglet like bats,  rats, monitor lizards, birds and snakes.

Conservationists all over the country are happy about the new find which expands the known habitat of the Philippine eagle.