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West Papua, Indonesia Bird of Paradise Photo Tour (7-21 July 2023)


🌿🌿 Destination: West Papua, Indonesia(7-21 July 2023)

📅Date: 7-21 July 2023

👥 Number of participants: 6


Areas covered: 

(a) Arfak mountains

(b) Waigeo island/Raja Ampat island

(c) Jayapura/Nimbokrang


Birds of Paradise we have photographed during the trip:

1. Magnificent Bird of paradise

2. Western parotia

3. Vogelkop bowerbird

4. Wilson’s Bird of paradise

5. Red Bird of paradise

6. Black sicklebill

7. Magnificent riflebird

8. Vogelkop lophorina or Superb Bird of paradise

9. King Bird of paradise

10. Twelve wired Bird of paradise



Other Birds we have photographed during the trip:

11. Wattled brushturkey

12. Brown cuckoo dove

13. Ornate melidectes or Ornate honeyeater

14. Feline owlet nightjar

15. Glossy mantled manucode

16. Lesser Bird of paradise

17. Blyth’s or Papuan hornbill

18. Papuan frogmouth

19. Green backed robin

20. Arfak catbird

21. Black fantail

22. White shouldered fairy wren

23. Brush cuckoo

24. Spectacled longbill

25. Radjah shelduck

26. Sultan’s cuckoo dove

27. Pinon’s imperial pigeon

28. Common sandpiper

29. Lesser frigatebird

30. Osprey

31. Brahminy kite

32. White bellied sea eagle

33. Papuan hornbill

34. Rufous bellied kookaburra

35. Sulphur crested cockatoo

36. Eclectus parrot

37. Helmeted friarbird

38. Hooded butcherbird

39. Willie wagtail

40. Golden monarch

41. Frilled monarch

42. Shinning flycatcher

43. Gray wagtail

44. Pied imperial pigeon

45. Sacred kingfisher

46. Dollarbird

47. Palm cockatoo

48. Red cheeked parrot

49. Great billed parrot

50. Common paradise kingfisher

51. Olive backed sunbird

52. White shouldered fairy wren

53. Yelloe billed kingfisher

54. Eastern Hooded pita

55. Orange bellied fruit dove

56. Long billed cuckoo

57. Rainbow bee eater

58. Black manakin

59. Meyer’s friarbird

60. Black capped lory

61. Marbled frogmouth

62. Papuan pitta

63. Variable goshawk

64. Northern cassowary(not in the forest)

65. Greater black coucal

66. Crimson finch

67. Puff backed honeyeater

Sharing the screenshot of the major sighting in a collage format.

Thank you!