South-western provinces

Birdwatching near Kiunga.

The area around kiunga in western province offers an enormous number of species including the palm cockatoo, lesser black coucal, white-spotted munia, yellow-eyed metallic starling, rufous babbler, many species of bird of paradise, common paradise-kingfisher, hooded monarch, new guinea bronzewing, red-bellied pitta, southern crowned pigeon, blyth’s hornbill, great fig-parrot, flightless rail, pesquet’s parrots, chestnut-breasted cuckoo, dwarf koel, flame bowerbird, and a selection of honeyeaters. tours are offered by ecotourism melanesia (http://www.em.com.pg/png/) or you could make your own arrangements as there are daily flights from port moresby.