Indonesia Trip 2017 Day 7
Indonesia Trip Day 7 – Friday 28th July 2017
Sulawesi with Mike Nelson from Bird Tour Asia.
The first part of our 6-week Indonesian trip was birding the island of Sulawesi.
In the morning, we left Sendy Guesthouse to bird the world-famous Lora Lindu National Park in the mountains.
It was Mum’s birthday. We were up at 3.15 am to meet at 4 am. We were at the Anasso Trail. We hiked up the mountainside to try and be in place for the endemic G, but things were stacked up against us. Firstly, a couple of guys went past on a motorbike (probably up to no good), then there was a lot of water around, meaning it would not need to come to the path to grub for worms. We had an amazing day birding with loads of new birds including a whopping 7 Satanic Nightjar, what a fantastic name.
We birded from the road and saw the stunning Purple-bearded Bee-eater, my 4500th bird in the world.
We then did more owling seeing Sulawesi Masked Owl, Speckled and Cinnebar Boobok.
The next day and a half we carried on birding Lori Lindu NP, seeing
On 30th July, it was Dad’s birthday with a few new birds for Dad. We birder the mountain in the morning and stopped en route on the way back to Palu including Makassar Miner and Savannah Nightjar. Palu is the biggest city in Central Sulawesi and is right on the sea with a population of 200,000.
Tomorrow we fly via Makassar to Milando, with no birding planned.
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Hi, I’m Dr. Mya-Rose Craig. I am a 19-year-old prominent British-Bangladeshi ornithologist, environmentalist, diversity activist as well as an author, speaker and broadcaster. At age 11 I started the popular blog Birdgirl, and at age 17 I became the youngest person to see half of the birds in the world.
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This is my story; a journey defined by my love for these extraordinary creatures. Because large or small, brown, patterned or jewelled, there is something about birds that makes us, even for just moments at a time, lift our eyes away from our lives and up to the skies.
Lyrical, poignant and insightful.’ - Margaret Atwood
This is my story; a journey defined by my love for these extraordinary creatures. Because large or small, brown, patterned or jewelled, there is something about birds that makes us, even for just moments at a time, lift our eyes away from our lives and up to the skies.