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Australian
Ornithological Services Pty Ltd Patricia
Maher Australian Ornithological Services P/L
Sicklebill
Safaris With over 400 species of endemic New Guinea is a must for any serious birder. On a 3 week mainland trip to Papua New Guinea you may see over 20 species of Bird of Paradise from the diminutive King to the world's largest birds of paradise, the Brown and Black Sicklebills. Particular favourites are the amazing Ribbon-tailed Astrapia, the truly bizarre King of Saxony and the rare and spectacular Blue Bird of Paradise. Other spectacular groups such as kingfishers, pigeons and parrots are also a well represented feature of the trips, with five species of paradise-kingfisher and all the tiger-parrots being seen on some tours, as well as one of the world's largest pigeons, the Southern Crowned. Other great birds can include Salvadori's Teal, the huge New Guinea Harpy-Eagle, Pheasant Pigeon, jewel-babblers and pitohuis, the rare and almost unknown Archbold's and Fire-maned Bowerbirds, the mysterious and almost unknown Greater Melampitta, Lesser Melampitta and Crested Berrypecker. Still in the New Guinea region we also offer trips to the New Guinea Islands of the Louisiade and Bismarck Archipelagos, Buka, Bougainville and Manus which can add some of the most spectacular and rarely seen species of the region, with such delights as Goldie's Bird of Paradise, Nicobar Pigeon, Woodfords Rail, Sanfords Sea-Eagle, the huge and extremely rare Superb Pitta, Duchess Lorikeet, Song Parrot, plus Manus, New Ireland, New Britain and Solomons Boobooks to name but a few. The Indonesian province of West Papua is also one of our destinations and there we visit the Arfak mountains, the Raja Empat Islands and Sorong, the islands of Geelvink Ba, the Baliem valley and the area around Jayapura. See our web site for details.
The islands of the
Pacific offer a huge avifauna with many islands having their own endemics. A new
addition is our tours to the Solomon Islands where we again have a lot of local
contacts (and the most experienced guide for the region in Guy Dutson) also
Vanuatu, Fiji, New Caledonia, the islands of Polynesia, Micronesia, Taiwan and
Japan. We also offer superb Australian destinations, with great tours to the Northern Territory, Cape York and the entire eastern seaboard, the outback regions of southern Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania.
We offer a wide variety
of services including scheduled tours which you are welcome to join if space
allows, we will help you set up your own self guided tours and are happy to
customise itineraries and set up private tours with or without our guides, for
groups and individuals.
Fax Intl: 61 7 4093 9855
Papua New Guinea Bird Tour
(14 days) Klaus & Brenda Uhlenhut,
Alan has been
leading bird groups and individuals around Australia and the region
for over 30 years now. His experience in planning and organising
trips, finding the birds and other critters is well grounded. Alan
has led well over 100 trips all around this land. He founded the now
famous deep water pelagics off Wollongong and Sydney and has been on
at least 800 pelagic excursions - enough to not bother with
medication! From a birding perspective he has found a number of
firsts for the region too and has seen over 732 birds in Australia
alone.
Alan leads many trips of shorter duration too ranging from half days to 4 weeks plus. Whatever your length he will endeavour to work out a trip so that client wishes are fulfilled.
Alan's regional
experience is very extensive too having birded in the following, as
a leader or just as birder: New Zealand, New Caledonia, Papua New
Guinea, Indonesian islands of Bali, Sumba, Timor, Sumatra. Hong
Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, India, Nepal,
etc., In addition he has birded the US extensively (with nearly 700
on his US list), Canada, Costa Rica, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Dominican
Republic, Mexico. Europe including his native UK, France, Spain,
Portugal, Canaries, Madeira, etc.
Alan also
organised, planned and led one of the very first bird specific
Sub-Antarctic Cruises over 15 years ago now visiting all the islands
of Australia and New Zealand including Stewart, The Snares,
Campbell, Auckland, Antipodes, Macquarie, Bounty, Pyramid Rock and
several of the Chatham's. Not many have Chatham Island Snipe on
their list!
Alan has the right connections to organise and plan your trip to any of these or other bird rich areas in the region
Contact details:
e-mail:
amcbride1@mac.com
Mob: + 61 419 414 860 Fax: + 61 2 9973 2306
Perth Bird Tours by Zoo Keeper Stuart Andrews
Milne Bay PNG
September 2008
Stuart designed and
lead the 2006 tour to Milne Bay Papua New Guinea
to great success for the participants and the
locals. And now after rewriting the itinerary to
include extra features they are off again to the
beautiful coastal region of Milne Bay. Perfectly
safe and tranquil to visit, they will be having
a town stay at first followed by a real village
stay on an Island before moving up into the
mountains of the mainland. They visit villages,
natural wonders and well as do birding most days
with the aim of seeing the Bird of Paradise and
the other local birds. These Melanesian people
are warm and friendly and this 12 day all
inclusive trip is not to be missed. Departing in
September please see web page for more details.
Contact Stuart for a Milne Bay bird list, past
trip report and more details .
contact:
stuart@perthbirdtour.com
or
phone 0421961914
08
94561713
international 61 8 94561713
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