BIRDING SULAWESI: Birdwatching in North Sulawesi

This itinerary should be considered as reference only and can be modified according to the needs and time of tour participants.

Warbling White-eye

Day 1

When you arrive, we will meet you at Sam Ratulangi airport of Manado city.
After that we will organize your transfer by car to homestay in Sonder.
You will take a rest for 1 or 2 hours.
After having lunch, we will go birdwatching in the nearby rice field where you could watch White-browed Crake, Little Egret, Cattle Egret, Purple Heron, Chestnut Munia, Scaly-breasted Munia, Collared Kingfisher and Zebra Dove.
Back to homestay, dinner and rest.

Birds in North Sulawesi

Day 2
We will wake up early in the morning at around 05:00. We will have some coffee or tea with biscuits. At 05:30, we will leave our homestay for hill forest of Sonder.

We will look for such birds as Warbling White-eye, Black-crowned White-eye, Crimson Sunbird, Crimson-crowned Flowerpecker, Sulawesi Cuckoo-dove, White-faced Cuckoo-dove, Yellow-billed Malkoha, Gray-cheeked Green Pigeon, Green Imperial Pigeon, Sulawesi Pygmy Woodpecker, Sulawesi Drongo, White-eye Drongo, Bay Coucal, Isabelline Bush-hen, Barred Rail.
We will return to Sonder town at around 09:00 to take a rest. After that, we will continue again our birding around the homestay.

Sulawesi Hanging Parrot

Day 3
We will do an easy roadside birding to look for Black-naped Oriole, Pale Blue Monarch, Zebra Dove, White-eyed Drongo, Sulawesi Hanging Parrot, Sahul Sunbird, Gray-sided Flowerpecker, Yellow-sided Flowerpecker. Sometimes we could see birds of prey in the air such as Sulawesi Serpent Eagle or even the Lesser Fish Eagle.

Black-naped Oriole in Minahasa highland

Sonder town in the highland of Minahasa

Day 4
We will do birding in Mount Mahawu, Lake Linow and Pine Forest where we could see such birds as Turquoise Flycatcher, Sulawesi Blue Flycatcher, Gray-rumped Treeswift, and Sulawesi Myzomela.