Walindi Plantation Resort Bird watching Information Sheet –General
Key bird species possible to see at sites accessed by Walindi Plantation Resort Species regularly recorded: New Britain Endemics Bismarck Archipelago endemics & Special interest Solomon Islands (S) New Britain Buzzard Melanesian Scrubfowl (S) Heinroth’s Shearwater New Britain Grey‐headed Goshawk (few Yellow‐legged Pigeon (S) Beck’s Petrel records) Blue‐eyed Cockatoo Mackinlay’s Cuckoo‐dove (S) Bar‐tailed Cuckoo‐dove New Britain Boobook Pied Cuckoo‐dove Nicobar Pigeon White‐mantled Kingfisher Yellow‐bibbed Fruit‐dove (S) White‐bibbed Fruit Dove Rufous‐faced Thicket Warbler Red‐knobbed Fruit‐dove Grey Imperial Pigeon New Britain Friarbird Red‐knobbed Imperial Pigeon (S) Yellow‐tinted Imperial Pigeon Finsch’s Imperial Pigeon Eastern Black‐capped Lory Bismarck (Black) Imperial Pigeon Buff‐faced Pygmy‐parrot Red‐chinned Lorikeet Variable Dwarf Kingfisher (New Britain race) Song Parrot (S) Beach Kingfisher Bismarck Hanging Parrot Island Monarch Violaceous Coucal Pied Coucal Black‐headed Paradise Kingfisher Bismarck Kingfisher Bismarck Pied Monarch Lesser Shining Flycatcher Black‐bellied Myzomela Ashy Myzomela Sclater’s Myzomela Bismark Flowerpecker Black‐headed White‐eye Long‐tailed Myna (S) Buff‐bellied Manikin (S) Bismarck Wood‐swallow
Other species usually seen include: Little Pied Cormorant, Eastern Reef Egret, Rufous Night‐heron, Black Bittern, Pacific Black Duck, Osprey, Brahminy Kite, White bellied Sea eagle, Crested Hawk, Variable Goshawk, Crested Ten, Common Tern, Brown Cuckoo‐dove, Stephan’s Dove, White‐bibbed Ground‐dove, Superb Fruit‐dove, Rainbow Lorikeet, Red‐flanked Lorikeet, Eclectus Parrot, Brush Cuckoo, Channel‐billed Cuckoo, White‐rumped Swiftlet, Moustached Treeswift, Common Kingfisher, Collared Kingfisher, Sacred Kingfisher, Rainbow Bee‐eater, Common Dollarbird, Blyth’s Hornbill, Pacific Swallow, Black‐faced Cuckoo‐shrike, White‐bellied Cuckoo‐shrike, Yellow‐eyed Cuckoo‐shrike, Common Cicadabird, Varied Triller, Golden‐ headed Cisticola, Northern Fantail, Willie Wagtail, Spangled Drongo, Mangrove Golden Whistler, Shining Flycatcher, Black Sunbird, Yellow‐bellied Sunbird, Metallic Starling, Island Crow.