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 ....Annotated
Ramsar List - Papua New Guinea. This site contains brief
information
on:
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Lake Kutubu
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Tonda
Wildlife Management Area
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....Birding
in Papua New Guinea - If birds are your special interest, then
Papua
New Guinea (PNG) is the place to be. Over 700 species of birds can be found
in PNG including 38 of the 43 known species of the exotic Bird of Paradise.
There are numerous other birds of distinction including the cassowary which
stands at 1.8 meters high and can weigh up to 59 kg, and the Crowned Pidgeon
which is the size of a turkey.
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....Birdwatching
in Papua New Guinea - This is the land of Birds of
Paradise, Pesquet's Parrot,
Eclectus, Fruit doves, Fig Parrots, and many others. Because of its astounding
variety of habitats, New Guinea supports over 700 species of birds.
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....Birdwatching
Indonesia, West Papua - Irian Jaya, with its more
than
678 recorded species, contributes around 44% of all Indonesian's birds
total. It is also the second place on earth which inherits the second largest
number of Birds Of Paradise. From all 43 species of this amazing heaven
birds, which are only distributed from eastern Australia to New Guinea,
west to the north Moluccas, 28 species can be seen at Irian Jaya's areas,
with 5 species of them are endemic to this region. this website contains
a detailed itinerary for 15 days in Iranian Jaya.
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....Kiunga,
a great lowland birding spot in Papua New Guinea -
Kiunga
is a small river port sited on the upper reaches of the Fly River in the
remote Western Province of Papua New Guinea. It is surrounded by vast tracts
of swamp forest and lowland rain forest, and one thing that has become
clear over recent years is just how good the area is; a sort of lowland
equivalent of Ambua for species diversity.
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....Crater
Mountain Wildlife Management Area -
Website contains a checklist
of birds of the Crater Mountain area.
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....Papua
New Guinea - Directory of Wetlands of International Importance -
includes information on
Papua New Guinea's Ramsar designated site:
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Tonda Wildlife Management Area
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....Irian
Jaya Trip Report - September 2001 - A land of boundless forests
and crystal clear seas.
By Dave Hanford. "I’m going to Irian Jaya!" "Where the hell's that"? That
was the usual start of the conversation. It is the western half of New
Guinea, which is the second largest island in the world after Greenland.
It lies not too far north of Australia just south of the equator.
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....Trip
Report: Irian-Jaya (West Papua) Birding Trip Report,
July
15th to August 8, 2002, By. Jim McAllister and Kris Tindige. Places of
birding included in our Itinerary are:
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Sorong
(Intimpura Road, Batanta and Salawati Islands): July 15th - July 19th,
2002.
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Timika
(stop over) and Biak: July 20th and July 29th, 2002.
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Manokwari
(Warkapi and Arfak Mountain): July 21st - July 28th, 2002.
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Jayapura
(Nimbokrang): July 30th - August 2rd, 2002.
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Wamena
(Lake Habbema): August 4th - August 8th, 2002.
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....Papau
New Guinea Trip Report: July/August 2001. By Phil Gregory.
This was the eleventh Birdquest
tour to Papua New Guinea, Land of the Unexpected and home to some of the
most spectacular and bizarre birds in the world. Finding birds in PNG can
be a major challenge, with some of the most difficult, shy, and skulking
birding on earth, but our group rose to the occasion and we recorded an
excellent selection as ever.
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....Papau
New Guinea Trip Report: April 2nd - 18th, 2000. By Phil
Gregory.
This was a private tour for the Schoenjahn family to see something of Papua
New Guinea. It was designed to find a good selection of the endemics on
the island as well, home to some of the most spectacular and bizarre birds
in the world.
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....Papua
New Guinea - a Birding Worldwide tour - May 29 - June 18 2000,
Bismark
& Admiralty Islands June 19 - 25, 2000. This annotated trip list
compiled by Phil Gregory indicates where each bird was found.
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....Papua
New Guinea Trip Report May 3 - 23, 1998. This was the fifth
Birdquest tour to Papua
New Guinea, home to some of the most spectacular and bizarre birds in the
world, but also home to some of the most secretive and difficult to see
birds on the planet. Birding in New Guinea must be among the most difficult
anywhere, but with patience, skill, persistence and a fair bit of luck
we managed to see an outstanding assortment of the New Guinea avifauna.
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....Parrot
Trip Report: Papua New Guinea - 26 July - 12 August 1998.
By
Phil Gregory. This was a Parrot Data birding and cultural tour of Papua
New Guinea, home to some of the most spectacular and bizarre birds in the
world, but also home to some of the most secretive and difficult to see
birds on the planet. Birding in New Guinea must be amongst the most difficult
anywhere, but with patience, skill, persistence and a fair bit of luck
we managed to see a very pleasing assortment of the New Guinea avifauna.
Among the highlights were 26 species of parrot including 3 species of Pigmy-Parrot,
and the great Vulturine Parrot and Palm Cockatoo. We also did well with
the birds of paradise, with twenty-one species seen.
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....Papua
New Guinea Trip Report: 27th June 2000 - 25th July 2000.
By
David Cooper. All three of us left with Samuel for a boat trip to try another
site for King Bird Of Paradise. On mooring the boat Samuel could hear a
King Bird displaying. After some initially frustrating views the bird’s
favoured display loop vine was located, when spectacular views were obtained
- bird of the trip!
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....Brief
Bird Notes from Kikori & Lake Kutubu, Papua New Guinea. By
K.
David Bishop. February 2001. I'm just back from a truly wonderful expedition
to the Kikori/Lake Kutubu region of southern PNG. Jared Diamond and I have
been undertaking a series of bird surveys of this incredibly pristine area.
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....Papua
New Guinea Trip Report: 29 June - 21 July 1998. By Phil
Gregory.
This was the first Inland Bird Tours /Sicklebill Safaris joint tour to
Papua New Guinea, home to some of the most spectacular and bizarre birds
in the world, but also home to some of the most secretive and difficult
to see birds on the planet. Birding in New Guinea must be among the most
difficult anywhere, but with patience, skill, persistence and a fair bit
of luck we managed to see an outstanding assortment of the New Guinea avifauna.
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....Papua
New Guinea Trip Report: 4 - 16 October 1998. By Jan
Vermeulen.
With the engine turned off we could float and enjoy a tremendous stillness
and silence while we watched Australian Darter, Striated Heron, White-bellied
Sea-Eagle, Ornate Fruit-Dove, Channel-billed Cuckoo and Glossy-mantled
Manucode. Surely the most spectacular bird we saw on our way back, and
one of the best of the trip, was an impressive New Guinea Eagle only 10
metres from the boat. It had been quite a day, but there was more to come.
When we were almost back in Kiunga we spotted a single Pesquet's (Vulturine)
Parrot, the only one of our trip...
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....Trip
Report: Bougainville, Bismarck Islands, Manus Island -
19 January - 3 February,
2002. By Greg Roberts. This was mainly a work trip with Angela Wylie, with
some birding fitted in. A trip bird list is included: 106 species, 33 lifers!
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....Trip
Report: Wallacea Indonesia, 2002, by John Hornbuckle.
We
birded 6 of the main islands of Wallacea excluding the Moluccas (still
a no-go area due to serious religious warfare), namely Sulawesi, Sangihe,
Sumba, Komodo, Flores and West Timor. The Lesser Sundas were a logistical
challenge but worthwhile and rewarding, with 60 ticks for me. I enjoyed
all 4 islands we birded, although not the boat trips to and from Sumbawa,
an island we did not bother to bird as all its specialities can be seen
on the other islands. For the finest birding I would select West Timor,
which I only visited after finding someone who had recently been and was
confident it was safe, given that all the government websites were strongly
recommending staying away – I was probably the first birder to go for more
than a year.
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