PNG Trip Report (Plus a couple of days in FNQ)

In late July I went on a privately organised trip to Papua New Guinea for a week. Sites visited were Madang, Keki Lodge (in the Adelbert Ranges), Port Moresby (including Pacific Adventist University), Varirata NP and Brown River. It was an amazing introduction to this country, though also some of the more challenging birding that I have done (a combination of manyunfamiliar species/calls, poor viewings because of bad light and incredibly shy birds due to high hunting pressure). If I could get permission I would go back again tomorrow as it was a fantastic trip. A summary of stats was as follows: 174 species seen 83 new species 48 species where at least one new subspecies seen 21 species heard only (13/7 as above) Highlights were many but the best species seen (in no particular order) – Brown-headed Paradise-Kingfisher, Goldenface, Fire-maned Bowerbird, Moustached Treeswift, Emperor Fairywren and Blyth’s Hornbill (amongst a host of other great birds) I have copies of trip reports with (1.85MB) or without (175KB) if anyone is interested in a copy – I would pot on Travelling Birder but this site now appears to be defunct – any other suggestions would be appreciated. Around the trip alos had a couple of days in Cairns which allowed some adding of species to my annual Australian list – results were 152 species in just over 2 days (including a day on the Atherton Tableland) – a separate report (82KB) is also available if anyone is interested. Cheers, Peter =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================