Dear Tom and Peter Thanks very much for your info – have passed it on to my friends – he is an irrigation expert who has worked a lot in PNG and visited Fiji before but not birding. Roger McGovern also mentioned the need to have a 4WD when venturing into forest parks – hiring a guide seems to be the way to go. Happy birding – Penny > Just to confirm Peter’s reply, Vili is a great birder and good > company, highly recommended. > > Tom > > On 30/01/2014 8:18 AM, “Peter Waanders” <waanders.peter@gmail.com > waanders.peter@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi Penny, > > I spent a morning with Vilikesa Masibalavu ( > vmasibalavu@conservation.org vmasibalavu@conservation.org> ) > in July last year. A very nice guy and great birder. We went into the > mountains at Namosi Road, some 15 km W of Suva. Cost was around > AU$150 if I > remember correctly. I ended up with 24 lifers. Highly recommended! > You can see my photo album here: > https://www.facebook.com/peter.waanders/media_set?set=a.4528366587802.1073741826.1850070783&type=3 > I also bought a copy of ‘Birds of Fiji and Western Polynesia’ by Dick > Watling, directly from Dick through his website: > http://www.pacificbirds.com/publications.html > > Hope this helps, > cheers > > Peter > _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
