This is an interactive mobile field guide version of Princeton Field Guide’s “Birds of New Guinea” by Thane K. Pratt and Bruce M. Beehler, with illustrations by John C. Anderton and Szabolocs Kókay. Audio recordings were compiled and edited by Iain Woxvold and David Bishop. Like the paper edition, this is the most complete and…
Welcome to the official David Bishop Bird Tours newsletter. 2016 was quite a year commencing with a very exciting and truly fulfilling five-week expedition to the Arfak Mountains of western New Guinea (Indonesia). This expedition included the discovery of several major new bird distributions. The Philippines (Luzon and Palawan) – think 14 species of night…
Witness with me the spectacle of thousands of shorebirds at Buntal Bay; crunchingly close views of the globally threatened Chinese Egret on its wintering grounds; repeated views of many Pygmy White-eyes feeding at eye-level; a lifer Graybreasted Babbler for KDB at point blank range; a memorable encounter with a Malaysian Rail-babbler; a close encounter with…
Any tour to Borneo is by definition special and this one was no exception. The immensely rich and fascinating biodiversity of this huge island’s fauna and flora has kept me wanting to go back and explore, year after year since the late 1970s. Despite the awful smoke emanating from the horrendous fires in Indonesian Borneo…