🌿🌿 Destination: West Papua, Indonesia(7-21 July 2023)
📅Date: 7-21 July 2023
👥 Number of participants: 6
Areas covered:Â
(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!
