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

 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 more.

Come back to the Homestay for breakfast. And then we will continue the tour to spotted some birds where you not seen  it on the day 2.Come back for lunch, after lunch around 2pm, we will go to the mangrove area by boat to spotted one of the kingfisher, Great (black)-billed Kingfisher and some birds such as: White-rumped Cuckoo-shrike, Pink-necked green Pigeon, Whimbrel, Grey-tailed tattler, etc

Day 5: Breakfast around 7am. After breakfast, we will drive to Tomohon (Gunung mahawu) to spotted the Target bird such as: Scaly-breasted Kingfisher, Sulawesi-blue Flycatcher, Island Flycatcher, Sulawesi myzomela, Yellow-vented Whistler, Yellow-sided Flowerpecker, Grey-sided Flowerpecker, and much more. Check-in at the Resort.

Day 6: Breakfast at 5:30am, drive to Mahawu for the birds target where we did not spotted on the day before.

Day 7: Flight to Ternate, 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 8: breakfast at 4:30am, after breakfast we will go to see Wallace standardwing Bird-of-paradise at the displaying place and another bird such 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 9: 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 10: Birding at aketajawe lolobata National park,  bird keys: Ivory-breasted pitta, northern molucan pitta, rusty breasted couckostrike, golden monarch, variable dwarf kingfisher, beach kingfisher, sombre kingfisher, moluccan scops owl, moluccan owlet nightjar,etc.

Day 11: Birding in the morning until lunch time to completed our target and after lunch we will drive to Sofifi and cross by boat to Ternate. Stay in Ternate, end of tour.