MAYA.

While making my own bill I actually learned a lot our former National bird.

These little birds that we see everywhere (like on electrical wires) are actually not the national birds. These birds are actually the Eurasian Tree Sparrow. It’s still locally called Maya but its not the only one.

This is what the real former national bird looks like. Cool huh? locals call it maya pula (I read that one on the ‘net, but I have never heard anyone use this term)

the Maya was the National Bird of the Philippines until 1995 when the government decided that the Monkey eating eagle should be our National Bird

Well that clears things up for me, at least I won’t call those little birds that sometimes land on the ledge as Mayas anymore :))