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Papua birding walks

Our birding walks are half a day’s to day-long focused bird watching excursions, currently offered only in the vicinity of our home base Sorong. Our most accessible ‘local patch’ holds Northern Cassowary, Western Crowned-Pigeon, Crinkle-collared Manucode, and King and Lesser Bird of Paradise among a well diversified and colorful lowland forest avifauna. Great as a little extension to our ‘Waitanta endemics’ birding break, and otherwise well worth a look if you happen to pass through Sorong and have a spare morning or so.

Banded Imperial-Pigeon Ducula zoeae is widespread in the lowland and hill forests of New Guinea. Copyright © Papua Expeditions/cv.Ekonexion and Søren Faurby

Taste of Sorong lowlands
forest birds

This Papuan birding walk takes us to a large tract of primary forest near Sorong that supports a well diversified and colorful lowland forest avifauna including Northern Cassowary, Western Crowned-Pigeon, and three species of bird of paradise: Crinkle-collared Manucode, and King and Lesser Bird of Paradise.

Rumba Boo Islets
waders and more

The Rumba Boo Islets lie off the northeast coast of Salawati Island in the Raja Ampat archipelago, just half an hour's boat ride away from Sorong. These sandy atolls are an excellent place to get to grips with a variety of waders and wetland birds, besides sporting a number of so-called 'supertramps': wide-ranging colonists that thrive on species-poor small islands. Great as a relaxed half a day's out birding.

The Lemon-bellied White-eye Zosterops chloris essentially is a Wallacean species that ranges marginally into the New Guinea region on the Schildpad Islands off northeastern Misool as well as tiny islets off northern Batanta, both of which localities are thus situated in the Raja Ampat archipelago.

A resounding thank you for introducing us to so many wonderful birds. Not cheap — everything is expensive here at the end of the world — but worth every cent.
[Victor Mason, Founder,
Bali Bird Walks, Indonesia]