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Halmahera Birding

Halmahera Island
Duration
7 Days · 6 Nights
The route
Halmahera Island
Style
Wallace's standardwing and the Moluccan endemics
Best season
Year-round · best
The route

6 nights, 1 stop — wallace’s standardwing and the moluccan endemics.

Halmahera Island.

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What you're tracking

What you'll see

Standardwing bird-of-paradise
Wallace's famous bird.
Ivory-breasted pitta
A Halmahera jewel.
Chattering lory
In the forest canopy.
Invisible rail
A skulking endemic.
Day by day

The journey, one day at a time

01Arrive Halmahera Island

Arrive Halmahera Island

The journey begins.

Arrive in Halmahera Island, met and transferred to your accommodation. Wallace's standardwing links Halmahera directly to the birth of evolutionary biology — and it still displays each dawn.

02Halmahera Island

Halmahera Island

A full day in the field.

Search the forest for Halmahera's Moluccan endemics. Dawn at the standardwing lek, then lowland forest birding.

03Halmahera Island

Halmahera Island

A full day in the field.

Bird in the morning and snorkel the reef by afternoon.

04Halmahera Island

Halmahera Island

A full day in the field.

Dawn at the standardwing lek, then lowland forest birding.

05Halmahera Island

Halmahera Island

A full day in the field.

Search the forest for Halmahera's Moluccan endemics.

06Halmahera Island

Halmahera Island

A full day in the field.

Bird in the morning and snorkel the reef by afternoon.

07Depart Halmahera Island

Departure

The journey ends.

A final morning in Halmahera Island — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.

When to travel

The season changes what you see.

Year-round

Peak season

The endemics are resident and the standardwing displays in most months.

Drier spells

Good season

Trails are easier in drier weather, but birding is reliable throughout.

Destinations

Where this journey goes

Wildlife you may see
Birds

Make it yours.

Add nights, swap a park, extend to the coast — this route is a starting point, not a fixed menu. Tell us how you travel and we'll route the rest.

Field notes, now and then.

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