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PAPUA NEW GUINEA - JUNE/JULY 2007
23 photosThis was probably my favorite birding trip outside of the Neotropics. The birds were just fantastically beautiful, spectacularly wierd, or some combination of the two. I even wrote a short article about it that was published in the October 2008 issue of Winging It. If you can find a way to get here sometime in your lifetime, it is well worth it.
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| Purple
Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio (D3) |
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| Southern
Crowned-Pigeon Goura scheepmakeri (D3) |
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| Beautiful
Fruit-Dove Ptilinopus pulchellus (D3) |
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| Black-capped
Lory Lorius lory (D3) |
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| Fairy
Lorikeet Charmosyna pulchella (D3) |
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| Brehm's Tiger-Parrot Psittacella brehmii Male. (D3) |
Brehm's Tiger-Parrot Psittacella brehmii Female. (S4) |
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| Red-cheeked
Parrot Geoffroyus geoffroyi (D3) |
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| Mountain
Owlet-Nightjar Aegotheles albertisi (S4) |
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| Papuan
Frogmouth Podargus papuensis (S4) |
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| Yellow-billed
Kingfisher Syma torotoro (D3) |
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| Black-backed
Honeyeater Ptiloprora perstriata (S4) |
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| Belford's
Melidectes Melidectes belfordi (D3) |
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| Crested
Satinbird Cnemophilus macgregorii Female. (D3) |
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| Hooded
Cuckoo-shrike Coracina longicauda (D3) |
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| Friendly
Fantail Rhipidura albolimbata (S4) |
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| Crested
Berrypecker Paramythia montium (S4) |
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| Short-tailed
Paradigalla Paradigalla brevicauda (D3) |
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| King-of-Saxony
Bird-of-paradise Pteridophora alberti Male. (D3) |
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| Brown
Sicklebill Epimachus meyeri Female. (D3) |
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| Lesser
Bird-of-paradise Paradisaea minor Male. (D3) |
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| Flame
Bowerbird Sericulus aureus (D3) |
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| Yellow-faced
Myna Mino dumontii (D3) |
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