Explore West Papua with four tailored birding programs leaded by Wildtour. Discover New Guinea’s iconic Birds of Paradise, rare bowervirds, and diverse regional specialties across Waigeo, Sorong, Jayapura, and Manokwari.
Shown below are our four programs for you to choose to have the best in West Papua birding, exploring the western end of the island of New Guinea; all will be guided by Nguyen Hao Quang during July to September - download itinerary PDF file
Estimate 80 species can be seen in 4 days
Tour classification: easy and luxury
Targets: Wilson’s Bird of Paradise and Red Bird of Paradise
Many other birds will be seen: Glossy-mantled Manucode, Beautiful Fruit Dove, Pink Spotted Fruit Dove, Wompoo Fruit Dove, Spice Imperial Pigeon, Dusky Scrubfowl, Spotted Whistling Duck, Raja Shelduck, White Ibis, Pacific Baza, Red-necked Crake, Great Cuckoo Dove, Claret-breasted Fruit Dove, Pied Imperial Pigeon, Purple-tailed Imperial Pigeon, Pinon’s Imperial Pigeon, Rufescent Imperial Pigeon, Collared Sparrowhawk, Grey Goshawk, Grey-headed Goshawk, Gurney’s Eagle, Beach Kingfisher, Common Paradise Kingfisher, Yellow-billed Kingfisher, Little Kingfisher, Hook-billed Kingfisher, many species of Honey Eater, Black and Hooded Butcherbird, Electus and Great-billed, Red-cheeked Parrot, many species of Lorikeet, Goden, Spot-winged, Frilled Monarch, Marble Frogmouth, Raja Ampat Pitohui together with many species of Sunbird, Meliphage, Medidetes and a number of shorebirds
Estimate 60 species can be seen in 3 days
Tour classification: hard and basic
Targets: Twelve-wired BOP, King BOP, Lesser BOP, Magnificient BOP
Many other birds will be seen: Northern Cassowary, Buff-banded Rail, Rufous-tailed Bushen, Brown Cuckoo Dove, Cinnamon Ground Dove, New Guinea Bronzewing, Western-crowned Pigeon, Orange-fronted Fruit Dove, Superb Fruit Dove, Coroneted Fruit Dove, Orange-bellied Fruit Dove, Zoes’s Imperial Pigeon, Palm Cockatoo, Black-capped Lory, Rainbow Lorikeet, Blyth’s Hornbill,
Estimate 150 species can be seen in 6 days
Tour classification: easy to moderate
Targets: 6 Bird of Paradise including Lesser BOP, Twelve-wired BOP, King BOP, Magnificent BOP, Magnificent Riflebird, Pale-billed Sicklebill.
Many other birds will be seen: Blue Jewel Babbler, Papuan Babbler, Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Bush Turkey, Norhern Cassowary, Trillers, Cuckooshrikes, Little Shrikethrush, Black Coucal, Rusty Pitohui, Brush Cuckoo, Little Bronze Cuckoo , King Parrot, Buff-facedPygmy Parrot, Salvadori’s Fig Parrot, Double- eyes Fig Parrot, Crimson Finch, Cicadabird, Azure Kingfisher, Rufous-bellied Kookabura,Papuan Frogmouth, Papuan Boobook.
Estimate 160 species can be seen in 7 days
Tour classification: hard and basic
Targets: Magnificent BOP, Marsked Bowerbird, Vogelkop Bowerbird, Western Parotia, Superb BOP, Black Sicklebill, Arfak Astrapia, Long-tailed Paradigalla
Many other birds will be seen: Poisonous Hooded Pitohui, Papuan Parotfinch, Balck-eared Catbird, Capped White-eye, Island Leaf Warbler, Green-backed Robin,Blue-Grey Robin, Ashy Robin, Black Fantail, Black- breasted Boatbill, Fantail Monarch, Sclater’s Whistler, Black Pitohui, Papuan Treecreeper, Tit Berrypecker, Smoky Honey Eater, Lesser Ground Robin, Feline andMountain Owlet NightjarAll pictures were taken by Nguyen Hao Quang
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