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Moluccas.

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Andy Anderson
AABirding &Travel
tours@aabirding.com
tel 0740318803
mobile 0438318804
fax 07 318803
Box 7999, 
Cairns 4870, 
Australia.

Ben Blewitt
Cassowary Tours
benblewitt@yahoo.com
tel 07 40341202
mobile 04 14343209
6 Donelli Crescent,
Brinsmead 4870,
Cairns,
Australia.

John Crowhurst
tel 07 40514194
8 Warrego St,
Cairns 4870,
QLD, Australia.

2004
Oct 11-18 NI. New Zealand

Oct 23-Nov 7 STH AFRICA
Oct 23-30. 
      Kalahari to Capetown
Oct 31-Nov 7.
                 Western Cape
A relaxed TasteBirds Tour
with fine food, fine wine, 
and fine birds.

Dec 13-30.             CHILE
  A Prospecting Tour

2005 
Jan 9-30          THAILAND

Feb 9-Mar 2   PHILIPPINES
            with John Grant

Mar 28 -Apr 8 NE.AUSTRALIA
          with Ben Blewitt

Apr 2-29
PAPUA NEW GUINEA

May Warblers of NE.USA
June             ALASKA

Jul 30-Aug 26
       PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Sep 6 - 23.  UGANDA

Dec 17 - 30      CHILE
 A TasteBirds Tour

2006
Jan 1-10 South Shetlands 
& Antarctic Islands 
& Antarctic Penninsula.

The itinerary will be -

Basic birding - 9 ds 
Sat 2nd April, 2005. 0700 hrs fly Cairns-Moresby. Birding Pacific University, Laloki Valley. Stay Bluff Inn. 
S 3  Varirata NP. Bluebreasted Pitta, Black-backed Butcherbird, Yellow-faced Myna. Stay Bluff Inn. 
M 4 Varirata. Brown-headed & Yellow-billed Kingfishers, Raggiana BoP. Stay Bluff Inn. 
T 5 1550 fly Mt Hagen. Drive to 2850m. Dusky Woodcock, Brown Sicklebill. Stay Kumul Lodge. 
W 6  Montane forest. Papuan Lorikeet, Blue-capped Ifrita, Crested Berrypecker. Stay Kumul. 
H 7  Brehm's Tiger Parrot, Crested BoP, Mountain Firetail, Ribbon-tailed Astrapia. Stay Kumul. 
F 8  Drive Hagen a.m. Ornate Honeyeater, Yellow-breasted Bowerbird, Blue BoP. Stay Kimininga Lodge. 
A 9 Drive Baiyer R.  Ornate Fruit Dove, Dusky Lory, Hook-billed Kingfisher, Hooded Pitta. Stay Baiyer R.
S 10 Yellow-gaped & Plain Honeyeaters, Lesser BoP, Magnificent BoP.Drive Hagen pm, Stay Kimininga Lodge.  Local cheap hosting with gigabytes of disk space

Fly River area - 8 ds 
M11  0945 fly Hagen-Kiunga. Lowland forest. Pink-spotted Fruit Dove, Greater BoP. Kiunga Guest House. 
T 12  Boat up the Fly River. 12-wire BoP, Southern Crowned Pigeon, King BoP. Stay Ekame Lodge.
W13  Purple-tailed & Zoe Fruit Pigeons, Little & Common Paradise Kingfishers. Stay Ekame Lodge. 
H14   Large Fig Parrot, , White-bellied Pitohui, Emperor Fairy Wren. Boat down the Elevela & Fly Rivers. Stay Kiunga.
F15   Orange-breasted Fig Parrot, Flame Bowerbird.1140 fly Tabubil. Hill forest. Torrent Flycatcher. Stay Cloudlands.
A16  Dwarf Fruit Dove, Long-billed Cuckoo, Spotted Jewelbabbler, Torrent Lark. Stay Cloudlands Hotel.
S17   Spotted Honeteater, Magnificent Riflebird. Stay Cloudlands Hotel. 
M18  White-rumped Robin. Carola's Parotia. 1235 fly Tabubil-Tari.      new Seeking local dating forum

Tari Gap - 4 ds
M 18 Fly Tabubil-Tari. Drive toward the Tari Gap. Mountain Peltops, Gt Woodswallow. Stay Warili Lodge. 
T 19 Black Sicklebill, Lawe's Parotia, Short-tailed Paradigalla, Ploughbill. Stay Warili Lodge. 
W 20  Moustached Treeswift, Stephanies Astrapia, King of Saxony & Loria's BoPs. Stay Warili Lodge. 
H 21  Rufous-naped Whistler, White-winged & Black-throated Robins, Black Sicklebill. Stay Warili Lodge. 
F 22  Archbold's Bowerbird.  Fly Moresby & Brisbane/Sydney or Cairns.       
    
Up the Elevala with Sam Kepuknai
Sam is a world-famous bird guide from Kiunga in Papua New Guinea. Here we are on the Elevala, a branch of the Fly River, where he has simple but comfortable accommodation for birders, the Ekamé Lodge. It is surrounded by exotic birds such as Southern Crowned Pigeon, Palm Cockatoo, Vulturine Parrot, Little Paradise and Hook-billed Kingfishers, Blue-breasted and Hooded Pittas, Blue Jewelbabbler, Flame Bowerbird, Twelve-wired and King Birds of Paradise and many more. the best site uk adult singles new wide choice

This wilderness is not far from the West Papuan border. If you enlarge the picture you can see that three of the party are women, one of them of 86 years. They thought that this country with the terrible reputation was one of the most wonderful places they had ever visited.

AABirding will be touring with Sam in April and again in August/September 2004.
 

To encourage people to save their surrounding habitat we like to help conserve the areas we visit by hiring local indigenous guides and staying in locally owned lodgings where possible. This gives the local land owners a direct reason for conserving their heritage. The lodgings range from comfortable to luxury but are mainly in the hotel-motel-lodge range.

At Kumul Lodge in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Here is one of our guides, First John, or Paouli as he prefers to be called, 
with his 9 year son Gibson, at Kumul Lodge, 2850m a.s.l.
Paouli is the local name of the Crested Bird of Paradise.
They are looking at the Schefflera feeding trees that the Papuan Lorikeets
(both morphs) and Ribbon-tailed Astrapias come to, most evenings. 
Gibson is giving the "nice one" signal. The shoulder of Mt Hagen is just visible through the gap above the driveway. 
 
 
 

Note the blue eye of this female Brown Sicklebill on a feeding bush at Kumul Lodge. Picture © to Mike Roger.