Maibri Birding Ecolodge
Maibri Birding Ecolodge
Maibri Birding Ecolodge
Maibri Birding Ecolodge in Arfak Mountains, Is only a two-hour drive from Manokwari. It's located in a beautiful Arfak highlands village called Kampung Maibri. Our new lodge offers Excellent Service, Comfortable 3 rooms for 6 guests, and excellent food cooked by our professional chef "Mrs. Celly", We have a hot water shower, the lodge is clean, and the right place to stay is in the Arfak Mountains. The lodge is run and managed by Sultan Birding Indonesia with the local man called Niko. They work together with the community to set up a small ecotourism accommodation, which makes it easy to explore the surrounding forest in the early morning and late afternoon. Because the bird watchers and bird photographers are important to the Maibri villagers’ income, the local people protect the forests.
Guest’s review
In November 2023 we visited Arfak Mountains in West Papua and stayed in Maibri Birding Ecolodge for 5 nights. If you want to have views of the Birds-of-Paradise of David Attenborough quality, this is the place to be. It takes some patience because you stay in hides for hours, but the sight of dancing Vogelkop Lophorina and Magnificent Bird-of-Paradise will last forever. The forest where they live is beautiful and hosts a lot more biodiversity, although birding is not easy. The lodge itself is basic but clean and comfortable. It’s situated directly on the main road on the edge of a small Papuan village near the forest. You can both interact with the friendly people who live here and at the same time enjoy nature (my moth net attracted hundreds of beautiful moth species at night). Everything is within a radius of not more than 3 km, so you don’t waste time traveling.
Maibri Birding Ecolodge
Birds might be seen in Maibri Village, Arfak Mountains, West Papua:
Glossy-mantled, Crinkle-collared, Trumpet Manucode, Vogelkop Lophorina (Superb Bird of Paradise), Black-billed Sicklebill, Magnificent Riflebird, Lesser Bird-of-paradise, Western Parotia, Magnificent Bird of Paradise, Masked bowerbird, Vogelkop Bowerbird, Greater Sooty Owl, Papuan Boobook, Feline Owlet-nightjar, Mountain Owlet-nightjar, Papuan Hawk-Owl, Marbled Frogmouth, Papuan Frogmouth, Arfak Catbird, Vogelkop Melidectes, Ornate Melidectes, Vogelkop Scrubwren, Grey-green Scrubwren, Long-tailed Honey Buzzard, Sultan's Cuckoo-Dove, Ornate, Superb, Claret-breasted, and Orange-bellied Fruit Dove, Pinon's Imperial Pigeon, Papuan Mountain Pigeon, Moustached Treeswift, Blyth's Hornbill, Palm, and Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Pesquet's, Eclectus and Blue-collared Parrot, Masked Bowerbird, Obscure Berrypecker, Mountain Peltops, Black-bellied Cicadabird, Rusty Whistler, Northern Variable Pitohui, Black-winged Monarch, Torrent-lark, Grey Crow, Black-chinned Robin, Torrent Flyrobin, and Olive-crowned Flowerpecker, Variable Goshawk, Sultan's Cuckoo-Dove, Bar-tailed Cuckoo-Dove, Great Cuckoo-Dove, Mountain Fruit Dove, Whiteeared Bronze Cuckoo, Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo, Plum-faced and Yellow-billed Lorikeet, White-shouldered Fairywren, Western Smoky Honeyeater, Red-collared Myzomela, Brown-breasted Gerygone, Grey Thornbill, Mid-mountain Berrypecker, Spectacled Longbill, Black-breasted Boatbill, Sclater's Whistler, Black Fantail, Black Monarch, Blue-grey Robin, Canary Flyrobin, Island Leaf Warbler, Capped White-eye, and Streak-headed Munia, New Guinea and Pygmy Eagle, Collared Sparrowhawk, Metallic Pigeon, Pesquet's Parrot, Blue-collared Parrot, Pygmy Lorikeet, Fairy Lorikeet, Josephine's Lorikeet, Thick-billed Berrypecker, Mottled Berryhunter, Papuan Grassbird, New Guinea White-eye, Blue-faced Parrotfinch, Papuan Parrotfinch, Gray's Grasshopper Warbler, Wattled Brushturkey, White-tipped Forest Rail, Cinnamon Dove, Bronze Ground Dove, Mountain Mouse-warbler, Spotted Jewel-babbler, Ashy Robin, Green-backed Robin, Lesser Ground Robin, Wattled Brushturkey, Whitestriped Forest Rail, Stephan's Emerald Dove, Cinnamon Ground Dove, Pacific Koel, Rusty Mouse-warbler, Pale-billed Scrubwren, Green-backed Robin, New Guinea Bronzewing, Superb Fruit Dove, Wallace's Fairywren, Long-billed, and Marbled Honeyeater, Red, Papuan Black, and Mountain Myzomela, Mountain Honeyeater, Goldenface, Fairy Gerygone, Yellow-bellied Longbill, Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler, Vogelkop Whistler, Sclater's Whistler, Arafura Shrikethrush, Hooded Pitohui, Rufous-backed Fantail, Drongo Fantail, Black-winged Monarch, Frilled Monarch, White-faced Robin, White-rumped Robin, Papuan Scrub Robin, Yellow-legged Flyrobin, and Black-fronted White-eye, Wattled Brushturkey, New Guinea Eagle, Ornate Fruit Dove, Rufescent Imperial Pigeon, Rufous-throated Bronze Cuckoo, Fan-tailed Cuckoo, Red-breasted Pygmy Parrot, Brehm's and Modest Tiger Parrot, Papuan Lorikeet, Papuan Treecreeper, Orange-crowned Fairywren, Rufous-sided Honeyeater, Olive Straightbill, Black-throated Honeyeater, Cinnamon-browed Melidectes, Mountain Mouse-warbler, Perplexing Scrubwren, Papuan Logrunner, Fan-tailed, Tit Berrypecker, Spotted Jewel-babbler, Mottled Berryhunter, Papuan Sittella, Rufous-naped Bellbird, Black Pitohui, Regent Whistler, Friendly, and Dimorphic Fantail, Lesser Melampitta, Ashy, Black-throated, Smoky Robin, Garnet Robin, Lesser Ground Robin, Archbold's Nightjar, Black-mantled Goshawk, Meyer's Goshawk, Collared Sparrowhawk, Mountain Swiftlet, and Great Woodswallow, New Guinea Eagle, Pheasant Pigeon, Moluccan King Parrot, Papuan Pitta, Masked Bowerbird, Wallace's Fairywren, Green-backed Honeyeater, Spotted Honeyeater, Tawny-breasted Honeyeater, Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler, Stout-billed Cuckooshrike, Piping Bellbird, Rusty, Vogelkop, Grey Whistler, Northern Variable Pitohui, Chestnut-bellied Fantail, Rufous-backed Fantail, Black-winged Monarch, Frilled Monarch, Grey Crow, White-faced Robin, White-rumped Robin, Papuan Scrub Robin, Vogelkop Owlet-nightjar.
(Please note that Long-tailed Paradigalla, Arfak Astrapia, and Black Sicklebill is an optional trips with an extra cost because the location in other village).
