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West Papua, Indonesia Birding Photography Tour 7-21 July 2025


🌿🌿 Destination:  West Papua, Indonesia Birding Photography tour

📅Date: 7-21 July 2025

👥 Number of clients: 

Arfak Mountains- 7

Raja Ampat- 7

Jayapura- 5


Bird-of-Paradise have been photographed during the trip:

1. Vogelkop bowerbird

2. Western parotia

3. Superb Bird-of-Paradise/Vogelkop Lophorina

4. Black sicklebill

5. Pale billed sicklebill(record shot)

6. Magnificent Bird-of-paradise

7. Red Bird-of-Paradise

8. King Bird-of-Paradise

9. Twelve wired Bird-of-paradise

10. Wilson’s Bird-of-Paradise

11. Lesser Bird-of-Paradise

12. Glossy mantled manucode

Other Birds have been photographed during the trip:

13. Masked bowerbird

14. White shouldered fairywren

15. White faced robin

16. Ornate melidectes

17. Vogelpkop Owlet nightjar 

18. Mountain Owlet nightjar

19. Felline Owlet nightjar

20. Blue gray robin

21. Olive crowned flowerpecker

22. White eared bronze cuckoo 

23. Hooded pitohui

24. Black fantail

25. Pinon’s Imperial pigeon

26. Papuan frogmouth

27. Moustached treeswift

28. Lesser Frigatebird

29. Sacred kingfisher

30. Papuan eclectus

31. Red cheeked parrot

32. Helmeted friarbird

33. Pacific baza

34. Rainbow bee eater

35. Variable goshawk

36. Rufous bellied kookaburra

37. Yellow billed kingfisher

38. Sulphur crested cockatoo

39. Coconut lorikeet

40. White breasted woodswallow

41. Willie wagtail

42. Shining flycatcher

43. Sultan’s cuckoo dove

44. Little egret

45. Dollarbird

46. Hooded butcherbird

47. Black sunbird

48. Brahminy kite

49. White bellied sea eagle

50. Blyth’s hornbill

51. Palm cockatoo

52. Fawk breasted bowerbird

53. Golden headed cisticola

54. Crimson finch

55. Gray crowned munia

56. Black munia

57. Common paradise kingfisher(Papuan)

58. Northern cassowary(rescued)

59. Orange bellied fruit dove

60. Sahul brush cuckoo

61. Boyer’s cuckooshrike

62. Black browed triller

63. Gray crow

64. Buff faced pygmy parrot

65. Pink spotted fruit dove

66. Papuan nightjar

67. Marbled frogmouth

68. Blue black kingfisher

69. Black capped lory

70. Mimic honeyeater

71. Northern fantail

72. Golden monarch

73. Eastern hooded pitta

Mammals photographed during the trip:

1. Cus cus

eBird Trip Report: https://ebird.org/tripreport/396331

Sharing the screenshots in a collage format from Guest’s camera.

Thank you