Papua birding breaks
Our birding breaks have been designed with the occupied,
regionally living bird watcher in mind, who wants to make the most of
a week-long birding escape to Papua. These trips generally provide an
excellent introduction to New Guinea birding, and by focusing on one particular
hotspot alone, invariably prove highly rewarding in tracking down those
most-wanted goodies otherwise not uncommonly dipped due to time-restriction
alone.
So whether you simply seek a first taste of Papuan birding,
or foster more ambitious plans for multiple visits in order to gradually
get to grips with Papua's scattered and difficult-to-get-to endemics,
our short bird watching packages cater to both these wills. Why not extend
your birding break into a fortnight adding any of our ready-made extensions?
Or use these and our breaks as 'building bricks' to put together your
customized birding adventure.
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Arfak montane specialties
In search of the 10 Vogelkop endemics, we basically
follow in the footsteps of the great Italian collectors D’Albertis
and Beccari, who first explored the Hatam-country only a few kilometers
away from our base in the Arfaks: the settlement of Siyoubrig, situated
at a chilly 1,600 m elevation on the mid-slopes of Mount Indon.
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!['Biak' Shrike-thrush Colluricincla [megarhyncha] melanorhyncha is among a suite of 25 often highly distinctive Geelvink endemic subspecies, and may well prove to merit reclassification at allospecies level.](images/pgnavpix10.jpg) |
Geelvink Islands endemics
No less than 12 endemic bird species, including
two fabulous paradise-kingfishers, plus heaps of highly distinct
yet almost 'forgotten' endemic subspecies await us on this birding
adventure covering the islands of Biak and Numfor in Papua's Geelvink
Bay.
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Snow Mountains specialties
Following in the footsteps of American explorer,
mammalogist and millionaire Richard Archbold, a superb selection
of New Guinea's wonderfully diverse montane avifauna can be seen
when hiking through cultivation and upper montane forests up the
Ibele Valley onto the Lake Habbema alpine plateau at 3,200 m elevation
above the timberline, in the shadow of Peak Trikora.
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Waitanta endemics
Every self-respecting world birder is bound to
at least once in a lifetime undertake the pilgrimage to Waitanta’s
avian delights. Bruijn’s Brush-turkey Aepypodius bruijnii,
Wilson's Cicinnurus respublica and Red Bird of Paradise
Paradisaea rubra; this birding break has been designed
to deliver exactly those dream birds. But best of all perhaps, just
by joining this birding adventure of a lifetime, you actively help
protecting an entire river catchment containing a spectacular component
of Earth's living diversity.
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