Papua Birdwatching

Overview

An estimated 120 species can be seen in 5 days trip to Waigeo Barat Nature Reserve, Mayalibit Bay, Kri island, and Gam island, Southwest Papua Province of Indonesia.

Tour classification: Easy

Bird target: Wilson’s bird-of-paradise, Red bird-of-paradise, Western-Crowned Pigeon, Papuan Pitta, Eastern-hooded Pitta, Yellow-billed Kingfisher, Hook-billed Kingfisher, Beach Kingfisher, Common Paradise Kingfisher, Papuan frogmouth, Marble Frogmouth, Papuan-dwarf Kingfisher, Brown-headed Crow,  Papuan Boobook.

Other birds can be seen: Blyth's Hornbills, Palm and Sulfur-crested Cockatoo, Eclectus Parrot, Black-capped Lory, and Coconut Lorikeet, Variable and Grey-headed Goshawk, Sultan's and Great Cuckoo-Dove, Wompoo, Pink-spotted, Superb, Beautiful and Orange-bellied Fruit Dove, Pinon's Imperial Pigeon, Brush Cuckoo, Common Paradise Kingfisher, Rufous-bellied Kookaburra, Yellow-billed Kingfisher, Tawny-breasted Honeyeater, Grey Whistler, Rusty and Raja Ampat Pitohui, Brown Oriole and Spangled Drongo. Northern Fantail, Spot-winged, Golden and Frilled Monarch, Glossy-mantled Manucode, Black-sided Robin, Yellow-faced Myna, and Olive-crowned Flowerpecker. Finally, a nocturnal foray en route back down toward the coast could produce Greater Sooty and Rufous Owl, Papuan Boobook, Large-tailed Nightjar, Marbled, Papuan Frogmouth, and Wallace's Owlet-nightjar, Red-necked Crake, Cinnamon Ground Dove, Papuan Pitta, Rusty Mouse-warbler, and Pale-billed Scrubwren, Western Crowned Pigeon, Dusky Megapode, Pacific Baza, Long-tailed Honey Buzzard, Pygmy and Gurney's Eagle, Collared Sparrowhawk, New Guinea Bronzewing, Pheasant Pigeon, Dwarf Fruit Dove, Purple-tailed Imperial Pigeon, Dwarf Koel, White-eared and Little Bronze Cuckoo, White-crowned Cuckoo, Moustached Treeswift, Hook-billed Kingfisher, Papuan Dwarf Kingfisher, Yellow-capped Pygmy Parrot, Moluccan King Parrot, Great-billed Parrot, Orange-fronted Hanging Parrot, White-eared Catbird, Green-backed, Brown-backed and Long-billed Honeyeater, Ruby-throated Myzomela, Spotted and Puff-backed Honeyeater, Yellow-bellied, Green-backed and Fairy Gerygone, Black Berrypecker, Spectacled, Pygmy and Yellow-bellied Longbill, Yellow-breasted Boatbill, Lowland Peltops, Black Butcherbird, Barred Cuckooshrike, Common and Black Cicadabird, Waigeo Shrike-thrush, Sooty Thicket Fantail, Brown-headed Crow, Pacific Reef Heron, Osprey, Stephan's Emerald Dove, Claret-breasted Fruit Dove, Spice and Pied Imperial Pigeon, Rufous-bellied Kookaburra, Beach and Sacred Kingfisher, Palm Cockatoo, Red-cheeked Parrot, New Guinea Friarbird, Mimic Honeyeater, Large-billed Gerygone, Hooded Butcherbird, Olive Flyrobin, Lesser Frigatebird, Brown Booby, Brown and Black Noddy, Greater and Lesser Crested Tern, Bridled, Black-naped, Common Tern as well as Streaked and Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Red-necked Phalarope, and Whiskered and White-winged Tern in season. Wilson's and Matsudaira's Storm Petrel, Bulwer's Petrel, Red-footed Booby, Black-headed Gull, Gull-billed, Spectacled and Sooty Tern, and Pomarine Skua. Willie Wagtail, Shining Flycatcher, Torresian Crow, and Olive-backed Sunbird. 

Itinerary

Day 1 Waigeo arrival – afternoon birding
Day 2 Waigeo
Day 3 Waigeo
Day 4 Waigeo – Mayalibit Bay
Day 5 Mayalibit Bay
Day 6 Mayalibit Bay
Day 7 Mayalibit Bay – Waisai – Kri Island
Day 8 Kri Island
Day 9 Kri – Gam island
Day 10 Kri Island – Transfer to Waisai for your next destination

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