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Guided birding trips with photographer and writer Ashley Banwell

Halmahera and West Papua 18th May to 8^th June 2010 £3800 excluding international flight

On this trip we shall be concentrating our efforts on Kingfishers and BoP's as well as the other specialist species in this region. We will visit the off islands of Kofiau, Biak and Numfor in search of their endemic Paradise Kingfishers. Another island we will be visiting is the unspoilt paradise of Waigeo where we shall stay in a basic but comfortable tented camps, which are very close to a known lek of Wilson’s Bird of Paradise, which we shall watch, displaying from specially built hides. Also we shall visit the highlands of the Arfak Mountains where again we shall be staying in a basic campsite, which allows us to be close to display grounds of Western Parotia. We will continue into the lowlands in search for the mega Shovel-billed Kingfisher.

Day 1: Halmahera. Target birds: Sombre Kingfisher, Wallaces’s Standardwing, Paradise Crow
Day 2: Halmahera.
Day 3: Halmahera.
Day 4: Halmahera.
Day 5: travel to Kofiau by chartered boat via Boo Islets.
Day 6: Kofiau. Target bird: Kofiau Paradise Kingfisher
Day 7: travel to Waigeo by chartered boat.
Day 8: Waigeo. Target birds: Red and Wilson’s Bird of Paradise, Variable Dwarf, Sacred and Hook-billed Kingfishers, Western Crowned Pigeon, Common Paradise Kingfisher
Day 9: Waigeo.
Day 10: Waigeo.
Day 11: Waigeo and Wai Island. Target birds: Beach Kingfisher
Day 12: travel to Manokwari and Arfak Mountains.
Day 13: Arfak. Target birds: Arfak Astrapia, Western Parotia, Long-tailed Paradagalla, Magnificent Bird of Paradise, Mountain Owlet Nightjar, Vogelkop Bowerbird, Black Sicklebill
Day 14: Arfak.
Day 15: Arfak.
Day 16: Arfak.
Day 17: travel to Numfor by chartered boat Target birds: Numfor Paradise Kingfisher

Day 18: Numfor and travel to Biak by chartered boat or scheduled flight
Day 19: Biak. Target birds: Biak Paradise Kingfisher
Day 20: travel to Jayapura by scheduled dawn flight and travel onward to
Muaib jungle Camp.
Day 21: Muaib jungle camp. Target birds: Yellow-billed, Variable Dwarf, Blue black, Shovel-billed Kingfishers, Rufous-bellied Kookaburra, Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Northern Cassowary, Pale-billed Sicklebill, Magnificent Riflebird, King Bird of Paradise, Lesser Bird of Paradise, Jobi and Glossy mantled Manucodes, Twelve-wired Bird of Paradise
Day 22: travel back to Jayapura.

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