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Northern lowlands of New GuineaThe vast flat alluvial lowland forests just west of the Cyclops Mountains near Jayapura are an excellent place to secure a great selection of New Guinea's northern lowlands specialties, including the world's largest pigeon, the Victoria Crowned-Pigeon Goura victoria, and the little-known Pale-billed Sicklebill Epimachus bruijnii with its peculiar, remarkably far-carrying advertising calls. These magnificent forests are part of a currently still largely untouched, 180,000 sq km tract of continuous swamp, floodplain and dryland lowland rain forests, extending roughly from Nabire in Papua's Geelvink Bay to the Markham and Watut Rivers on the Huon Peninsula of Papua New Guinea, and forming the northern drainage of New Guinea's central dividing mountains. Much of this area remains essentially unexplored for any purpose, and although bird distribution patterns are only very imperfectly known, many species appear to occupy very circumscribed ranges within seemingly continuous habitat. Northern lowlands endemic birds (2 species)Salvadori's Fig-Parrot Psittaculirostris salvadorii Restricted-range species (5 species)Brown Lory Chalcopsitta duivenbodei Widespread goodiesNorthern Cassowary Casuarius unappendiculatus Related linksRead on about our birding extension to the northern lowlands of New Guinea. Read on about our Best of Papua birding expedition visiting the northern lowlands of New Guinea. Browse our check-list of the birds of Papua. |
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