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Trip	Indonesia - Eastern Highlights: Sulawesi, the Moluccas & Papua II 2021 by Rockjumper Birding 5 \| Excellent 19 Reviews Trip Details Save Trip Customize

Duration	17 days
Price From	$ 7,645
Price Per Day	$ 450
Highlights	Lesser King Twelve-wired Red & Wilson’s Bird-of-paradise Trumpet & Glossy-mantled Manucode Standardwing Paradise-crow Moluccan Dwarf Papuan Dwarf Blue‐and‐white Lilac Little Azure Yellow-billed Green-backed Hook-billed Beach Sacred Red-breasted Paradise & Common Paradise Kingfisher Rufous-bellied Kookaburra Scarlet‐breasted Blue‐capped Grey‐headed Wompoo Superb Pink-spotted Orange-fronted Beautiful Dwarf Orange-bellied & Coroneted Fruit Dove White‐bellied Purple-tailed Pinon’s Zoe’s & Grey-headed Imperial Pigeon New Guinea Bronzewing Cinnamon Ground Dove Pheasant Pigeon Western Crowned Pigeon Yellow-capped Pygmy Parrot Orange-breasted Fig Parrot Emperor & Broad-billed Fairywren Black Berrypecker Hooded Butcherbird Southern Variable & Rusty Pitohui Lowland Peltops Spot-winged Golden and Frilled Monarch Pale-bellied Sulawesi & White-necked Myna Sulawesi Serpent Eagle Crimson-crowned & Halmahera Flowerpecker Fiery-browed Moluccan & Grosbeak Starling Ivory-backed Woodswallow Golden-mantled Racket-tail Malia Black-billed Koel Black Lory Sulawesi Myzomela Lemon‐bellied Mountain Streak-headed Cream-throated & Black-crowned White‐eye Sulawesi Blue Blue-fronted Blue Rufous-throated & Turquoise Flycatcher Great Hanging Parrot Sulawesi Cicadabird Purple-winged Roller Cinnabar Boobook Great Shortwing Pygmy Halmahera Golden Yellow-eyed New Guinea & Cerulean Cuckooshrike Sulphur-vented & Maroon-backed Whistler Rusty-bellied Fantail Citrine Canary-flycatcher Sulawesi Leaf Warbler Dark-eared & White-eared Myza Satanic Nightjar Purple-bearded Bee-eater Chestnut-backed Bush Warbler Mountain Serin Geomalia Citrine Red-flanked & Ornate Lorikeet Barred Honey Buzzard Sulawesi Hawk-Eagle Hylocitrea Sulawesi Thrush Blue-faced & Tawny-breasted Parrotfinch Sulawesi Cuckoo Sulawesi Woodcock Ivory-breasted & Red-billed Pitta Azure Dollarbird Red‐cheeked Eclectus & Great‐billed Parrots White & Palm Cockatoo Dusky Megapode Moluccan Goshawk Dusky Friarbird Invisible Rail Goliath Coucal Long‐billed Crow Moustached Treeswift Gurney’s Eagle Yellow‐billed Malkoha Sulawesi Pygmy & Ashy Woodpecker Spot-tailed Vinous-breasted & Dwarf Sparrowhawk Red-billed & Waigeo Brushturkey.
Trip Style	Small group tour
Lodging Level	Standard
Physical Level	3- Moderate
Travel Themes	Nature & Wildlife Birding National Parks Eco, Sustainable & Green Travel
Countries Visited	Indonesia
Cities and Attractions	N/A
Flights & Transport	Ground transport included
Activities	Bird watching Educational/ learning Nature Wildlife viewing
Meals Included	N/A
Description	2021 Prices are an estimate, dates are not confirmed and may change. As a result of the remarkable biogeography of the region, our Highlights of the Eastern Indonesian archipelago provides very little overlap in bird species to our Highlights of Western Indonesia, with a phenomenal number of special and endemic birds. We begin by exploring the prime highland site of Lore Lindu National Park on the island of Sulawesi. Boasting over 70 endemic species, the exceptional range of highly desirable birds we will seek include the endemic Hylocitrea, now placed in its own monotypic family, the indescribable Purple-bearded Bee-eater, bizarre Geomalia, Fiery-browed Starling, Green-backed Kingfisher (one of many endemic kingfishers), Purple-winged Roller, Satanic Nightjar and the impressive Knobbed Hornbill. We then wing our way to the nearby island of Halmahera, where we visit a lekking site for the highly sought-after Standardwing, surely one of the most bizarre birds-of-paradise! Here we also seek a mindboggling number of Mollucan endemics including the spectacular Ivory-breasted Pitta and Moluccan Owlet-nightjar. Moving further eastwards we again enter a completely new biological zone as we arrive in Sorong, on the extreme western tip of New Guinea. Here we bird the famous Vogelkop, a veritable feast of incredible highlights may include up to seven birds-of-paradise including Magnificent, King, Lesser and Twelve-wired as well as numerous pigeons (Wompoo, Superb and Pink-spotted Fruit Doves to name a few), parrots (including the localized Black Lory) and kingfishers (Red-breasted Paradise being one of the prime targets.) We conclude our tour on the Raja Ampat Island of Waigeo, famed for the best snorkeling in the world! Here our targets in this tropical island paradise include Red Bird-of-paradise, the incredible Western Crowned Pigeon, Palm Cockatoo, Lowland Peltops and much besides. And as a way of celebrating the finale of this remarkable tour we will visit the display ground of quite possibly the most beautiful bird on Earth – Wilson’s Bird-of-paradise!