West Papua (and Halmahera) 3rd – 28th April 2006

Abstract

This was perhaps only the second tour operated to West Papua (the Indonesian half of New Guinea, previously known as Irian Jaya) since civil unrest in the late 1990s. It focussed on the West Papuan endemics, notably the birds of paradise, of which all seven species endemic to Indonesia were sees along with another three species rarely seen outside Indonesia.