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Tabubil Endemics

Tabubil
Duration
6 Days · 5 Nights
The route
Tabubil
Style
Flame bowerbirds of the Star Mountains
Best season
May – October · best
The route

5 nights, 1 stop — flame bowerbirds of the star mountains.

Tabubil.

Tabubil
What you're tracking

What you'll see

Flame bowerbird
A dazzling foothill bird.
Carola's parotia
A foothill bird-of-paradise.
Magnificent bird-of-paradise
In the forest.
Shovel-billed kookaburra
A foothill prize.
Day by day

The journey, one day at a time

01Port Moresby → Tabubil

Arrive Tabubil

The journey begins.

Arrive in Tabubil, met and transferred to your accommodation. Tabubil's mid-elevation forests fill the gap between lowland Kiunga and the high valleys, adding species found at neither.

02Tabubil

Tabubil

A full day in the field.

Work the Ok Tedi roads for forest birds across elevations. Arrive at Port Moresby and transfer to Tabubil. Bird the foothill forest for the flame bowerbird and Carola's parotia.

03Tabubil

Tabubil

A full day in the field.

A full day of foothill specialities between the showers. Bird the foothill forest for the flame bowerbird and Carola's parotia.

04Tabubil

Tabubil

A full day in the field.

Bird the foothill forest for the flame bowerbird and Carola's parotia.

05Tabubil

Tabubil

A full day in the field.

Work the Ok Tedi roads for forest birds across elevations.

06Depart Tabubil

Departure

The journey ends.

A final morning in Tabubil — 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.

May – October

Peak season

The drier window — best for the very wet foothill forests.

Year-round

Good season

Birds are present throughout, but Tabubil is genuinely wet most months.

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.

Where to go · When to go · Wildlife in season

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