PNG 2008 Part 7

Part 7 starts at Kiunga airport just before we flew back to Port Moresby, although the first species seen is a great wood-swallow filmed at Tabubil. At the airport if you look very carefully you can see a flushed red-backed button-quail, white-spotted mannikin and forest kingfisher. We then move to Port Moresby airport where we have cattle egret and house sparrow, before going to a nearby wetland at dusk for rufous night-heron, black bitrern and purple gallinule. We then move to Varirata National Park where we see beautiful fruit-dove, Australasian grebe, raggiana bird-of-paradise, yellow-eyed cuckoo-shrike, hooded pitohui, red-cheeked parrot, brown-headed paradise-kingfisher, chestnut-bellied fantail, spot-winged monarch at a nest, yellow-bellied gerygone, grey whistler, and the primitive barred owlet-nightjar.

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• guinea
• bird
• expedition
• moresby
• varirata

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