09 May 2025 - 26 May 2025 (18 days)
PGK39,450 - Spaces Available
Tour Leader: Julian Parsons
Tour Leader: Paul Varney
Tour price (Per person): PGK39,450 * USD9,755 * GBP7,796 * EUR9,378 * AUD15,035
Single Supplement: PGK4,950 * USD1,224 * GBP978 * EUR1,177 * AUD1,886
Flight costs: PGK3,400 * USD841 * GBP672 * EUR808 * AUD1,296
Can be linked with: Papua New Guinea - New Britain Extension I 2025
18 Jul 2025 - 04 Aug 2025 (18 days)
PGK39,450 - No Spaces Available
Tour Leader: Amanda Guercio
Tour Leader: Lev Frid
Tour price (Per person): PGK39,450 * USD9,755 * GBP7,796 * EUR9,378 * AUD15,035
Single Supplement: PGK4,950 * USD1,224 * GBP978 * EUR1,177 * AUD1,886
Flight costs: PGK3,400 * USD841 * GBP672 * EUR808 * AUD1,296
Can be linked with: Papua New Guinea - New Britain Extension II 2025
20 Aug 2025 - 06 Sep 2025 (18 days)
PGK47,950 - No Spaces Available
Tour Leader: Erik Forsyth
Tour price (Per person): PGK47,950 * USD11,857 * GBP9,476 * EUR11,399 * AUD18,274
Single Supplement: PGK4,950 * USD1,224 * GBP978 * EUR1,177 * AUD1,886
Flight costs: PGK3,400 * USD841 * GBP672 * EUR808 * AUD1,296
Can be linked with: Papua New Guinea - New Britain Extension III 2025
08 Jun 2026 - 25 Jun 2026 (18 days)
PGK41,000 - Spaces Available
Tour Leader: Carlos Bocos
Tour Leader: Lev Frid
Pricing notes : *Prices are estimated and dates may change*
Tour price (Per person): PGK41,000 * USD10,138 * GBP8,103 * EUR9,747 * AUD15,626
Can be linked with: Papua New Guinea - New Britain Extension I 2026
25 Jul 2026 - 11 Aug 2026 (18 days)
PGK49,900 - 3 Spaces Available
Tour Leader: Paul Varney
Pricing notes : *Prices are estimated and dates may change*
Tour price (Per person): PGK49,900 * USD12,339 * GBP9,861 * EUR11,862 * AUD19,017
Can be linked with: Papua New Guinea - New Britain Extension II 2026
Of all the world’s birding destinations, Papua New Guinea must certainly rank amongst the most fascinating and exotic. The second largest island on Earth, New Guinea was the last inhabited island to be explored by Europeans, and even today many areas have little or no exposure to Western influence. The virtually untouched forests come alive with incredible fruit doves, fig parrots, fairywrens, jewel-babblers, pittas, honeyeaters and berrypeckers, while over twenty species of dazzling birds-of-paradise present sometimes unbelievably iridescent colours and wild tail plumes in one of the most astonishing exhibits of the natural world!
Travelling by air, road, and boat we will explore the diverse habitats of the country, from winding lowland rivers and sprawling grasslands, to the richly forested highlands. Native tribes still dress themselves to mimic the island’s fabulous birds, adorned with elaborate head plumes made from the feathers of parrots and birds-of-paradise. Our eighteen-day tour covers the highlights of this enchanted and little-travelled country. We can expect a phenomenal variety of remarkable birds in and amongst vast regions of immaculate forests that have been experienced by few people on earth!
King of Saxony, Magnificent, King, Twelve-wired, Greater, Raggiana, Lesser & Blue Bird-of-paradise; Magnificent & Growling Riflebirds; Black, Brown & Black-billed Sicklebills; Superb Lophorina; Glossy-mantled, Crinkle-collared & Trumpet Manucodes; Ribbon-tailed & Princess Stephanie's Astrapias; Queen Carola's & Lawes's Parotias; Salvadori's Teal; Forest Bittern; Papuan, Pygmy & Gurney's Eagles; Doria's & Black-mantled Goshawks; Papuan Harrier; New Guinea Flightless Rail; New Guinea Woodcock; New Guinea Bronzewing; Cinnamon Ground Dove; Pheasant Pigeon; Sclater’s Crowned Pigeon; Wompoo, Pink-spotted, Ornate, Orange-fronted, Superb, Coroneted, Beautiful, White-bibbed, Orange-bellied & Dwarf Fruit Doves; Purple-tailed, Rufescent, Pinon's, Collared, Zoe's & Torresian Imperial Pigeons; Papuan Mountain Pigeon; Papuan Boobook; Marbled & Papuan Frogmouths; Archbold's Nightjar; Feline, Starry, Wallace's, Mountain & Barred Owlet-Nightjars; Hook-billed, Common Paradise, Little Paradise, Buff-breasted Paradise, Brown-headed Paradise, Forest, Torresian, Yellow-billed, Mountain, Papuan Dwarf & Azure Kingfishers; Shovel-billed, Blue-winged & Rufous-bellied Kookaburras; Pesquet's, Yellow-capped, Buff-faced Pygmy, Orange-breasted Fig, Papuan King & Brehm's Tiger Parrots; Papuan Eclectus; Striated, Red-flanked, Fairy, Papuan, Yellow-billed & Orange-billed Lorikeets; Purple-bellied, Dusky, Goldie's & Coconut Lorikeets; Papuan Pitta; Archbold's, MacGregor's, Flame, Yellow-breasted & Fawn-breasted Bowerbirds; Papuan Treecreeper; Wallace's, Emperor, White-shouldered & Orange-crowned Fairywren; Goldenface; Papuan Babbler; Papuan Logrunner; Loria's & Crested Satinbirds; Tit & Crested Berrypeckers; Papuan Whipbird; Spotted, Blue & Chestnut-backed Jewel-babbler; Painted Quail-thrush; Mottled Berryhunter; Papuan & Black Sittellas; Wattled Ploughbill; Rufous-naped Whistler; Crested Pitohui; Lesser & Greater Melampittas; Blue-capped Ifrit; Mountain Firetail; White-spotted, Great-billed, Grey-headed, Hooded & Chestnut-breasted Mannikins.
Spectacled Dasyure; Black-tailed Giant Rat; Agile Wallaby; Great Flying Fox.
lowland and montane rainforest, Eucalyptus savanna, mangroves, grasslands, wetlands, islets
hot and humid with tropical showers, cooler in the highlands
7 with 1 Rockjumper Leader / 8 - 10 with 2 Rockjumper leaders
moderate pace with some longer hikes
comfortable to good hotels and lodges with one basic lodge
moderate, can be challenging at times
300 - 350
traditional carvings, spectacular forest vistas and mountain scenery
good
Special thanks to Dušan Brinkhuizen for his care in helping me to locate birds on my camcorder.
Adam Walleyn is an amazing birder, I'm quite experienced but I literally have no idea how he knows, hears and can engage with so much of the wildlife and particularly birds around, that was all great.
We are home having had an amazing trip to PNG....we were very impressed with Adam Walleyn and Gareth Robbins and would rate them very highly as tour leaders. Very Best Wishes from very satisfied customers.
Dušan Brinkhuizen was very personable, great birder, keen on helping us all see the species.
The tour was excellent overall. The main guide, Stephan Lorentz, was really top class. His knowledge of the birds and calls and the fine id details was exceptional and his field skills were awesome, outdoing the local guides at times. And he is extremely personable and friendly. The local guides were also excellent and provided an exceptionally high level of field skill and support, and great enthusiasm in getting pax onto the more challenging birds. And physical support also, including even helping some of the pax on slippery slopes and cutting stairs on river landings at times!! The landed arrangements were generally slick and the accommodation of good quality. Overall it was an exceptional and really memorable tour with superb birds and birding, much or most of which would not have been possible without the Rockjumper team, slick tour planning and arrangements, Stephan and the local guides.
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Papua New Guinea - Birding in Paradise III 2022 - July 2022
Papua New Guinea - New Britain Extension II 2022 - July 2022
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Papua New Guinea - Huon Peninsula Extension I 2022 - June 2022
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