Half day morning birding tour - Sorong city is an important transit point for visitors who travel to Raja Ampat. The suburban areas of Sorong city are surrounded by farmland and forest. In recent years, these natural places have attracted birdwatchers from all corners of the world. They take birdwatching tours before or after their trip in Raja Ampat.
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| Some of the birds and butterflies which tour participants could see in Sorong |
Some of the many birds that can be watched in the outskirt areas of Sorong city are listed below:
- Twelve-wired Bird of Paradise
- Glossy-mantled Manucode
- Trumpet Manucode
- Coconut Lorikeet
- Black-capped Lory
- Black Lory
- Red-cheeked Parrot
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
- Palm Cockatoo
- Sahul Sunbird
- Black Sunbird
- Olive-crowned Flowerpecker
- Willie Wagtail
- Pacific Baza
- Brahminy Kite
- Dollarbird
- Helmeted Friarbird
- Emperor Fairywren
- Willie Wagtail
- Blyth's Hornbill
- Sacred Kingfisher
- Blue Black Kingfisher
- Beach Kingfisher
- Pinon Imperial Pigeon
- Orange-fronted Fruit-dove
- Collared Imperial Pigeon
- Spotted Dove
- Black-browed Triller
- White-bellied Cuckooshrike
- Torresian Crow
- And etc.
To enjoy birdwatching, tour participant needs to bring their own binoculars such as the 10×42 mm from Nikon Monarch or other brands. Birding experience for tour participants will be enhanced when they bring spotting scope that is mounted on a tripod.
This morning birdwatching tour starts at 05:00 and finishes at around 10:00 and can be extended with visits to traditional market of Sorong city or Buddhist Temple View Point.
To help identify or learn more about birds that occur in Sorong city and its surroundings, visitors could install Merlin App in their cell phone.
Tour participants need to bring rain poncho, anti insect spray. This short birdwatching tour at the outskirts of Sorong city is suitable for everybody from solo traveling tourists to a group of travelers.
In addition to birds, other natural attraction that tour participants can see while walking inside or along the forest edge is butterfly. There are New Guinea Clipper, Common Green Birdwing, Great Eggfly Butterfly, Blue Tiger Butterfly, Mangrove Tiger Butterfly, Ulysses Butterfly and a lot more.
Booking
To book your bird and butterfly watching tour, please, contact me by email to peace4wp@gmail.com or by whatsapp through this contact link.
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