North Sulawesi birding trip
OVERVIEW NORTH SULAWESI BIRDING TRIP
Duration: 11days / 10nights
Starting Point: Manado (North Sulawesi)
Ending Point: Manado (North Sulawesi)
Physical difficulty: moderate to difficult
Focus: birding phography
Min. group size: 2 persons
Max group size: 6 persons
Ending Point: Manado (North Sulawesi)
Physical difficulty: moderate to difficult
Focus: birding phography
Min. group size: 2 persons
Max group size: 6 persons
Available : 6 Persons
Side covered :
- Tangkoko Nature Reserve
Key bird; Knobbed hornbill,Sulawesi dwarf hornbill,green
backed kingfisher,Sulawesi dwarf kingfisher,Sulawesi lilac kingfisher,great
billed kingfisher,ruddy kingfisher,Sulawesi roller,Sulawesi malkoha,Sulawesi pygmy-woodpecker,ashy
woodpecker,blue-backed parrot,Sulawesi hanging parrot,pygmy hanging
parrot,minahasa racquet-tail,ornate lorikeet,white-necked myna,short crested
myna, grosbeak myna, red-backed thrush,sahul pitta,Sulawesi bush-hen,barred
rail,buff-banded rail,great eared nightjar,Sulawesi nightjar, Sulawesi scop
owl, Ochre-bellied boobook, Minahasa masked owl, pale-blue monarch, Sulawesi serpent
eagle, Sulawesi hawk eagle, black eagle,white-bellied fish-eagle, spot-tailed
sparrowhawk, small sparrowhawk, vinous-brested sparrowhawk, Sulawesi goshawk,
silver-tipped imperial pigeon, green imperial pigeon, black-naped fruit dove, Stephan
dove, grey-cheeked green pigeon, white-face cuckoo dove, Sulawesi cuckoo dove,
white-rumped cuckooshrike, pied-cuckooshrike, bay coucal, Sulawesi cicadabird, Sulawesi
triller, tabon scrubfowl Etc.
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Knobb hornbill |
2. Tomohon-mt. mahawu
Key bird; Scaly kingfisher, speckled boobook, white-bellied
imperial pigeon, superb-fruit dove, red-eared fruit dove, Sulawesi myzomela,
crimson sunbird, yellow-sided flowerpecker, grey-sided flowerpecker, black-crowned
white eye, mountain white-eye , mountain leaftoiler, Sulawesi jungle-flycatcher,
turquoise warbling-flycatcher, sulphur-bellied whistler, citrine
canary-flycatcher, Sulawesi brush cuckoo, little cuckoo dove, Sulawesi malkoha,
Sulawesi pygmy woodpecker Etc.
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Superb fruit dove |
3. Kotamobagu-tambun,tapakulintang,mt. Ambang
Key bird; Maleo, Sulawesi masked owl, cinnabar boobook, matinan
warbling-flycatcher, sombre pigeon, purple-bearded bee-eater, malia, lesser
myza, ivory-backed woodswallow, white-breasted woodswallow, short crested myna,sulawesi dwarf hornbill, cerulean
cuukooshrike, little egret, javan pond heron,purple heron,intermediate egret,
cattle egret, pied stilt Etc.
you need to know that on Mount Ambang it is more suitable for watching birds, not too good for bird photography, because the road is quite difficult to go through with a large camera, so sometimes we skip this place for guests who are not strong enough to climb.
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Maleo bird |
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Purple bearded bee-eater |
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