 Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna pacifica) |
 Heinroth's Shearwater (Puffinus heinrothi) |
 Stephan's Emerald Dove (Chalcophaps stephani) |
 Bismarck Drongo (Dicrurus laemostictus) |
 Blyth's Hornbill (Rhyticeros plicatus) |
 New Britain Dwarf Kingfisher (Ceyx sacerdotis) |
 New Britain Dwarf Kingfisher (Ceyx sacerdotis) |
 Nicobar Pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica) |
 Whistling Kite (Haliastur sphenurus) |
 Black-backed Butcherbird (Cracticus mentalis) |
 Fawn-breasted Bowerbird (Chlamydera cerviniventris) |
 Lealea mangroves |
 Raja Shelduck (Tadorna radjah) |
 Elegant Honeyeater (Microptilotis cinereifrons) |
 Mangrove Robin (Peneoenanthe pulverulenta) |
 Walindi Plantation Resort |
 Tre trunk |
 Walindi Plantation Resort |
 Kimbe Bay |
 Kimbe Bay |
 Violaceous Coucal (Centropus violaceus) |
 Black-capped Paradise Kingfisher (Tanysiptera nigriceps) |
 Kulu river |
 Walindi Plantation Resort |
 Pacific Reef Heron (Egretta sacra) |
 Mangrove Golden Whistler (Pachycephala melanura dahli) |
 Sclater's Myzomela (Myzomela sclateri) |
 Island Imperial Pigeon (Ducula pistrinaria) |
 Restorff Island |
 Kimbe Bay |
 Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster) |
 Matsudaira's Storm Petrel (Oceanodroma matsudairae) |
 Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster) |
 Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster) |
 Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus) |
 Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus) |
 Kimbe Bay |
 Lesser Frigatebird (Fregata ariel) |
 New Britain Friarbird (Philemon cockerelli) |
 Red-knobbed Imperial Pigeon (Ducula rubricera) |
 New Britain Boobook (Ninox odiosa) |
 Nankeen Night Heron (Nycticorax caledonicus) |
 White-browed Crake (Porzana cinerea) |
 Black-capped Paradise Kingfisher (Tanysiptera nigriceps) |
 White-bellied Cuckooshrike (Coracina papuensis sclaterii) |
 Black Honey Buzzard (Henicopernis infuscatus) |
 Barred Cuckooshrike (Coracina lineata sublineata) |
 Eclectus Parrot (Eclectus roratus) |
 White-mantled Kingfisher (Todiramphus albonotatus) |
 Buff-banded Rail (Gallirallus philippensis meyeri) |
 Golden Masked Owl (Tyto aurantia) |
 Yellowish Imperial Pigeon (Ducula subflavescens) |
 Variable Goshawk (Accipiter hiogaster) |
 PNG Air |
 Hooded Mannikin (Lonchura spectabilis) |
 Art at Kavieng Airport |
 Petrol station |
 Lelet Plateau Rd |
 White flower |
 Uniform Swiftlet (Aerodramus vanikorensis pallens) |
 Mayr's Swiftlet (Aerodramus orientalis leletensis) |
 Paradise Drongo (Dicrurus megarhynchus) |
 Bismarck Whistler (Pachycephala citreogaster) |
 Paradise Drongo (Dicrurus megarhynchus) |
 Pleated Leaf Spathoglottis (Spathoglottis plicata) |
 Shining Bronze Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx lucidus) |
 Paradise Drongo (Dicrurus megarhynchus) |
 Paradise Drongo (Dicrurus megarhynchus) |
 Black Imperial Pigeon (Ducula melanochroa) |
 Bismarck Crow (Corvus insularis) |
 Red-banded Flowerpecker (Dicaeum eximium) |
 White-backed Woodswallow (Artamus insignis) |
 White-backed Woodswallow (Artamus insignis) |
 Reddish Myzomela (Myzomela e. erythrina) |
 New Ireland sunset |
 New Ireland Boobook (Ninox v. variegata) |
 New Ireland Boobook (Ninox v. variegata) |
 Buff-bellied Mannikin (Lonchura melaena) |
 Australian Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus australis sumbae) |
 Melanesian Kingfisher (Todiramphus tristrami nusae) |
 Red-chinned Lorikeet (Charmosyna rubrigularis) |
 Grey-capped Cicadabird (Coracina remota) |
 Golden Monarch (Carterornis chrysomela) |
 Bismarck Crow (Corvus insularis) |
 White-necked Coucal (Centropus ateralbus) |
 Our car |
 Peter Igua, Ashley Banwell & Roger McNeill |
 Wandering Tattler (Tringa incana) |
 Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna pacifica) |
 Bridled Tern (Onychoprion anaethetus) |
 Bulwer's Petrel (Bulweria bulwerii) |
 Greater Crested Tern (Thalasseus bergii) |
 Tabar Island |
 Tabar Island |
 Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis hispidoides) |
 Knob-billed Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus insolitus) |
 Tabar Pitta (Erythropitta splendida) |
 Tabar Pitta (Erythropitta splendida) |
 Melanesian Megapode (Megapodius eremita) |
 Tau Dikana Lodge |
 Red-knobbed Imperial Pigeon (Ducula rubricera) |
 Northern Fantail (Rhipidura rufiventris gigantea) |
 Eclectus Parrot |
 Orchid sp. |
 Breakfast |
 Spider sp. |
 Cardinal Lory (Pseudeos cardinalis) |
 Tau Dikana Lodge |
 On the way to Tabar I. |
 New Ireland |
 New Ireland |
 Odedi (Horornis haddeni) |
 Arawa |
 Sacred Kingfisher (Todiramphus sanctus) |
 Melanesian Kingfisher (Todiramphus tristrami alberti) |
 Island Imperial Pigeon (Ducula pistrinaria) |
 Lunch |
 Buin market |
 Buin market |
 Buin market |
 Buin market |
 Buin market |
 Buin market |
 Buin market |
 The road to Buin |
 Our team |
 Pied Goshawk (Accipiter albogularis woodfordi) |
 Barred Cuckooshrike (Coracina lineata nigrifrons) |
 Melanesian Kingfisher (Todiramphus tristrami alberti) |
 Red-knobbed Imperial Pigeon (Ducula rubricera) |
 Lunch |
 North Solomons Dwarf Kingfisher (Ceyx meeki pallidus) |
 Barred Cuckooshrike (Coracina lineata nigrifrons) |
 Large-Leafed Dendrobium (Dendrobium macrophyllum) |
 Brown-winged Starling (Aplonis grandis) |
 Solomons Cockatoo (Cacatua ducorpsii) |
 Claret-breasted Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus viridis) |
 Orchid sp. |
 Solomons Cockatoo (Cacatua ducorpsii) |
 Cockerell's Fantail (Rhipidura cockerelli septentrionalis) |
 Orchid sp. |
 Beatle sp. |
 Red-capped Myzomela (Myzomela lafargei) |
 Island Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus poliocephalus bougainvillei) |
 Island Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus poliocephalus bougainvillei) |
 Brown Fantail (Rhipidura d. drownei) |
 ant plant.jpg |
 Loloru crater lake |
 Orchid sp. |
 Orchid sp. |
 Loloru crater lake |
 Loloru volcano |
 Orchid sp. |
 Loloru volcano |
 Loloru volcano |
 Wind-Blown Lip Calanthe (Calanthe ventilabrum) |
 Orchid sp. |
 Bougainville Crow (Corvus meeki) |
 Loloru volcano |
 Loloru volcano |
 Taro plantation |
 Roger McNeill & Ashley Banwell |
 Village |
 Yellow-throated White-eye (Zosterops metcalfii) |
 Pleated Leaf Spathoglottis (Spathoglottis plicata) |
 Loloru volcano |
 Our car |
 Bad road |
 Bad road |
 Bad road |
 Changing cars |
 Flat tire |
 Bad road |
 Papuan Harrier (Circus spilothorax) |
 Pilot dress code |
 Karimui air field |
 Lunch |
 Village council |
 Peanut plantation |
 Roger McNeill & Ashley Banwell |
 Great Woodswallow (Artamus maximus) |
 Mt. Karimui |
 Stout-billed Cuckooshrike (Coracina caeruleogrisea) |
 Lawes's Parotia (Parotia lawesii) |
 Pesquet's Parrot (Psittrichas fulgidus) |
 Mountain Peltops (Peltops montanus) |
 Red-breasted Pygmy Parrot (Micropsitta bruijnii) |
 Yellow-browed Melidectes (Melidectes rufocrissalis) |
 Mt. Karimui |
 Red-breasted Pygmy Parrot (Micropsitta bruijnii) |
 Mountain Owlet-Nightjar (Aegotheles albertisi) |
 Black Shrikethrush (Melanorectes nigrescens) |
 Red-collared Myzomela (Myzomela rosenbergii) |
 Blue-capped Ifrit (Ifrita kowaldi) |
 Orchid sp. |
 Bower of MacGregor's Bowerbird (Amblyornis macgregoriae) |
 Mt. Karimui |
 Daniel Wakra |
 Marbled Frogmouth |
 Daniel Wakra |
 Roosting tree of Karimui Owlet-nightjar |
 Karimui Owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles terborghi) |
 Karimui Owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles terborghi) |
 Daniel Wakra |
 Papuan Frogmouth |
 Brown Falcon (Falco berigora) |
 Hooded Mannikin |
 Papuan Frogmouth |
 Scrub Honeyeater (Microptilotis albonotatus) |
 Mt. Karimui |
 Children collecting worms |
 Long-tailed Shrike |
 Karimui station |
 Karimui station |
 Mission Aviation Fellowship |
 Pre boarding |
 Collared Sparrowhawk (Accipiter cirrocephalus) |
 Little Black Cormorant |
 Little Pied Cormorant |
 Village |
 Seri Nui dam |
 Seri Nui dam |
 Seri Nui dam |
 Pheasant Pigeon (Otidiphaps nobilis) |
 White-faced Robin |
 Common green birdwing Ornithoptera priamus.jpg |
 Torresian Crow (Corvus orru) |
 Drongo Fantail (Chaetorhynchus papuensis) |
 Varirata NP |
 Skipper Hesperiidae |
 Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) |
 Elkhorn Fern Platycerium bifurcatum |
 Varirata NP |
 Varirata NP |
 Ochre-breasted Catbird (Ailuroedus stonii) |
 White-faced Robin (Tregellasia leucops) |
 Fan-tailed Cuckoo (Cacomantis flabelliformis) |
 Boyer's Cuckooshrike (Coracina boyeri) |
 Forest Bittern (Zonerodius heliosylus) |
 Forest Bittern |
 Dragonfly sp. |
 Painted Grasshawk Dragonfly (Neurothemis stigmatizans) |
 Azure Kingfisher (Ceyx azureus) |
 White-bellied Whistler (Pachycephala leucogastra) |
 PNG Parliament |
 PNG Parliament |
 Plumed Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna eytoni) |
 Comb-crested Jacana (Irediparra gallinacea) |
 Australasian Swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus) |
 Pacific Black Duck (Anas superciliosa) |
 Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus) |
 View over post-war Panguna town |
 Pesquet's Parrot (Psittrichas fulgidus) |
 Our village on Normanby |
 Ultramarine Kingfisher (Todiramphus leucopygius) |
 Greater Crested Tern (Thalasseus bergii) |
 Torresian Crow (Corvus orru) |
 The Buka Passage |
 John Toroura |
 Ducorps's Cockatoo (Cacatua ducorpsii) |
 Thrice Folded Calanthe (Calanthe triplicata) |
 Sacred Kingfisher (Todiramphus sanctus) |
 Arriving to Wasu, Huon Peninsula |
 Our car - on the way to Mt. Balbi |
 Australian Osprey (Pandion cristatus) |
 White-lipped Python (Leiopython albertisii) |
 Sunset over the Buka Passage |
 Sanford's Sea Eagle (Icthyophaga sanfordi) |
 Imitator Goshawk (Accipiter imitator) |
 Brown-headed Paradise Kingfisher (Tanysiptera danae) |
 Louisiade White-eye (Zosterops griseotinctus) |
 Grass-Like Leaf Arundina - Bamboo Orchid (Arundina graminifolia) |
 Pleated Leaf Spathoglottis (Spathoglottis plicata) |
 Ducorps's Cockatoo (Cacatua ducorpsii) |
 The main road on Bougainville, connecting Buka and Arawa |
 Pale Mountain Pigeon (Gymnophaps solomonensis) |
 Mongolian Plover (Charadrius mongolus) and Pacific Golden Plover (Pluvialis fulva) |
 Pacific Golden Plover (Pluvialis fulva) |
 Preparing for the crossing to Normaby Island |
 Dendrobium sp. |
 Ashley and Zhon |
 Tawny-breasted Honeyeater (Xanthotis flaviventer spilogaster) |
 Brown Fantail (Rhipidura drownei drownei) |
 Pleated Leaf Spathoglottis (Spathoglottis plicata var. alba) |
 Morning view from our hotel |
 Calanthe chrysantha |
 Pleated Leaf Spathoglottis (Spathoglottis plicata) |
 Pied Goshawk (Accipiter albogularis) |
 Satop Ridge (altitude 1 900 m) |
 Building our camp at Mt. Balbi |
 Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) and Pacific Golden Plover (Pluvialis fulva) |
 Northern Common Cuscus (Phalanger orientalis) |
 Imitator Goshawk (Accipiter imitator) |
 Sunset over the Buka Passage |
 Curl-crested Manucode (Manucodia comrii) |
 Pygmy Eagle (Hieraaetus weiskei) or Brahminy Kite (Haliastur indus)? |
 Marbled Frogmouth (Podargus ocellatus) |
 The main road on Bougainville, connecting Buka and Arawa |
 Sunset over the Buka Passage |
 Our "hotel" in Panguna |
 Entering the "No Go Zone" - the road to the old Panguna mine |
 Beach Kingfisher (Todiramphus saurophagus) |
 The Buka Passage |
 Ashley having a cup of Milo |
 View over Mt. Bagana volcano |
 Sally-light-foot crab (Grapsus albolineatus) |
 Lemon-bellied Flyrobin (Microeca flavigaster) |
 Variable Shrikethrush (Colluricincla fortis despecta) |
 Our camp at Mt. Balbi |