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                              Papua New Guinea 2009

Spangled Owlet-Nightjar at Ekame Lodge, eventually spotlighted and watched for 15 mins

Marbled Frogmouth at Ekame Lodge, the warm up act for the Owlet-Nightjar, a great nights birding!

a day roosting Barred Owlet-Nightjar at Varirata

male Blue Bird of Paradise at Tari, he put on a wonderful show for us, displaying and then calling in a tree for 30 mins, a real showman

Brown Sicklebill watched doing his wacky display at Tari and stunning close up views on the bird table at Kumul Lodge, a truly beautiful bird

male Little Paradise Kingfisher at Ekame

male Common Paradise Kingfisher at Ekame

Brown-headed Paradise Kingfisher showed very well at Varirata

male Lesser Bird of Paradise near to Kumul Lodge, we watched several males displaying early in the morning

male Wattled Ploughbill, posed for 30 mins allowing scope views, one of the trips highlights, a stunning little bird

Sanford's Bowerbird visited the bird table at Kumul lodge occasionally

Macgregors Bowerbird at Tari

A pair of Twelve-wired Bird of Paradise in display at Ekame

Papuan Frogmouth at its day roost at Varirata, a 2nd bird was with it

A stunning pair of Torrent Larks were a pleasant suprise at Dablin Creek

A fine Blue-winged Kookaburra at Varirata

 Rufous-bellied Kookaburra roosting near to Ekame Lodge allowed us to get some wonderful views

This Short-tailed Paradigalla was watched feeding on these fruits near Ambua most of the morning allowing us some close views

This male Superb Bird-of Paradise allowed us scope filling views at Tari

Sooty Owl at Tari

male King Bird-of-Paradise at Ekame

We enjoyed good views of this Vulturine Parrot behind Ekame Lodge

female Magnificent Bird-of Paradise at Dablin Creek

male King of Saxony Bird-of-Paradise on Benson's Trail, Tari

Brehm's Tiger Parrots were ever present at the feeder at Kumul Lodge

This Long-tailed Shrike was seen below Kumul Lodge

Smoky Honeyeaters were common at Kumul

Southern Crowned Pigeons are one of the target birds at Ekame

This Superb Fruit-dove allowed us good views, very nice!

Torrent Flycatchers were seen on the way to Mount Hagen

Variable Goshawks are one of the commonest raptors on our trip

This Yellow-billed Kingfisher was seen at Ekame

Blyth's Hornbills are a sign of good forest, they were seen regularly at Ekame

male Ribbon-tailed Astrapias are  really stunning birds

Glossy-mantled Manucode flying over us at Ekame

This Lewin's Rail was captured by some villagers, we released it well out of the way

Little Eagle at Tari

Frilled Monarch's are regularly encountered in bird flocks at Tari

This Dollarbird posed nicely for us at Varirata

Pacific Baza's were seen often on our trip

Masked Lapwing at Varirata, papuan race V.m.miles

female Stephanie's Astrapia lower down at Tari

the comical looking Palm Cockatoo at Ekame

This Madarasz's Tiger Parrot posed for us near to Ambua