Category Archives: Indonesia (Asia)

Lesser Sundas [2025]

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Finally back to Indonesia! Our last trip to Indonesia was in 2018 (Sumatra and West Papua) so this was long overdue. This was our third trip to Indonesia. We had three weeks in which we birded the Lesser Sundas and since Denpasar was a logical hub for the trip, we added a week in Bali and East Java. The last week we were joined by friends Vivian Jacobs and Marten Hornsveld (after which they continued to West Java & Sumatra) – our last week is included in their report (which follows later). This trip report focuses on the 3-weeks in the Lesser Sundas islands of Lombok, Sumba, Alor, Rote, Timor, Flores and Komodo. Excellent birding, great food, great people. Indonesia is still at the top of countries with most new lifers, so we will back soon!

Tripreport Lesser Sundas
Some photos
GPS

Sumatra [2018]

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Sumatra was our second stop in our year of travelling, we wanted a destination in Indonesia in June and the weather in Sumatra seemed favourable. With two new pitta’s and lots of other endemics this was an easy choice. Since we only allotted 10 days we chose to do western Sumatra with the best site for most endemics (Kerinci) and since we were travelling via Padang we added one of the offshore islands (Mentawai). Since we are still traveling this is a short trip report with our main findings and a rough annotated species list (most counts are incomplete and subspecies indication is missing). We really enjoyed travelling and birding in Indonesia again. Our next leg of the trip will be West Papua but we will definitely return for more Indonesia exploration in the next few years!

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Some photos