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Nimbokrang, Arfak mountain and Waigeo island Birding Tour 15 Days/14 Nights

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Nimbokrang, Arfak mountain and Waigeo island Birding Tour 15 Days/14 Nights itinerary: Day 1st: meeting point at the airport in Sentani (Jayapura), we will go directly to Nimbokrang (2 hours drive). we will stay at the local homestay arrange by Mr.Alex (guide in Nimbokrang). after lunch we will go for see Lesser Bird-of-paradise, pale bill Sicklebill, yellow face myna,etc Day 2nd and Day 3rd: the tour will start early around 4:30 to have breakfast and start the tour after breakfast. Bird target: King Bird-of-paradise, twelve-wired Bird-of-paradise, pinnon imperial pigeon, lowland peltops, sulfur Crested cockatoo, papuan hornbill,etc Day 4th: breakfast at 4am, after breakfast we will go to the place to see magnificent rifiebird and some bird around. after lunch, we will go to Sentani to stay at the hotel near the airport. Day 5th: Flight from Sentani to Manokwari, stay one night in Manokwari, because I will buy all the food where we need in Arfak mountain. Day 6th: we will go to Arfak M

Tangkoko, Tomohon, Halmahera Birding Tour 11D-10N

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  Tangkoko, Tomohon, Halmahera Birding Tour 11D-10N Itinerary: Day 1:  Pick you up at Manado Airport, directly to Tangkoko. Check in at the local Homestay. Prepare your birding stuff and then we will start to explore the jungle. In this day, Sulawesi Scops-Owl is one of the highlight bird targets to photograph. Day 2-3:  Breakfast at 5:30. After breakfast, we will catch the highlight species such as: Green-backed Kingfisher, Lilac-cheek Kingfisher, Sulawesi-dwarf Kingfisher, Red-knobbed Hornbill, Sulawesi-dwarf Hornbill, Ashy Woodpecker, Yellow-billed malkoha, Purple-winged Roller, Sulawesi Pitta, ochre-bellied Boobook, Sulawesi Babbler, Red-backed Thrush, and much more Day 4:  Start the tour around 5am, we will drive around 20 minutes  to Temboan hills spend 2-3 hours there to spotted some birds such as: Yellow-breasted  Racquet-tail, Ornate Lorikeet, Golden-mantled Racquet-tail, Sulawesi cicadabird, Great-billed hanging parrot, Pygmy hanging Parrot, Sulawesi-dwarf Hornbill, and much

Halmahera and Raja Ampat Birding Tour 11 Days / 10 Night

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  Halmahera and Raja Ampat Birding Tour 11 Days / 10 Night Itinerary: Day 1st: meeting point at the airport in Ternate, I will pick you up and we will go to the port. from the port, we will go by speedboat to cross to sofifi (Halmahera). from Sofifi, we will drive (4 hours) to the place called Weda resort. Day 2nd: breakfast at 4:30am, after breakfast we will go to see Wallace standardwing Bird-of-paradise at the displaying place and another bird suck as: blue-and-white kingfisher, common paradise kingfisher, ivory breasted pitta, northern molucan pitta,and many more. in the afternoon we will birding from the main road to see another bird suck as: Mollucan cockatoo, moluccan Whistler, purple dolarbird, rusty breasted couckostrike, golden monarch, sombre kingfisher, etc. the nights bird, moluccan scops owl, moluccan owlet nightjar. Day 3rd: birding in the morning until lunch time. after lunch, we will drive to aketajawe lolobata National park. we will stay at the local homestay. Day 4th

Halmahera Birding

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Halmahera is a house of 3 paradise species. Wallace standardwing Bop, Paradise Crow and Common paradise Kingfisher, some endemic Kingfisher, Flycatcher,Owl, etc Location:  Sofifi, Weda,Sidangoli, Foli, Buli road side and  Aketajawe lolobata NP. Key Species:  Wallace standardwing Bop, Sombre Kingfisher, Ivory-breasted Pitta,  Moluccan dwarf Kingfisher, Common paradise Kingfisher, Blue-and-white Kingfisher, Purple Roller, Northern moluccan Pitta, Grey-headed fruit Dove, Moluccan scop Owl, Moluccan owlet Nightjar, Beach Kingfisher, Golden Monarch, Shining Flycatcher,  Invisible Rail, Pinon imperial Pigeon, Paradise Crow, Spectacled Monarch, Moluccan Monarch, Moluccan Whistler, Rufous-bellied Triller, Blyth’s Hornbill, etc

Papua Birding

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Home of Bird-of-paradise and many another birds where you can found from the low land until high mountain Location:  Jayapura (Nimbokrang), Manokwari (Arfak Mountain), Sorong (Malagufuk) and Raja Ampat (Waigeo island). Key Species:  Western Parotia, Magnificent Bop, Superb Bop, King Bop, Lesser Bop, Magnificent Riflebird, Wilson’s Bop, Red Bop, Twelve-wired Bop, Yellow billed Kingfisher, Hook Billed Kingfisher, Western crown Pigeon, Black Sicklebill, Long Tailed Paradigala, Arfak Astrapia, Feline owlet Nightjar, Mountain owlet Nightjar, Green backed Robbin, Blue grey Robbin, Black billed Sicklebill, Pale Sicklebill, Lowland piltop, Vogelkop Bowerbird’ Masked Bowerbird, Black eared Catbird, etc.  

Trip 3 Days 2 Night in Tangkoko Nr

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Trip 3 days 2 night - Tangkoko & Mahawu (Tomohon)

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