Kiunga Nature Tours

08/03/2024

Alotau; in my mind." TOURISM.

15/02/2024

what we ( Kiunga Nature Tours) try to exposed western Province with our owned know how over twenty plus years from Kiunga North Fly District.

01/07/2023

Good morning everyone,

It has been a while since we have last intereacted online.

KNT Team is kindly asking for any bird watcher's that have traveled to Kiunga for bird watching purpose and have been guided by Samuel Kepuknai and Team, please do not forget to rate our service.

Your kinds words will go a long way.

28/04/2023

Photo by . “The Twelve-wire Touch”, is one of the newest additions to my fine art print store for all you Birds-of-Paradise fans out there. Did you know that those twelve wires emanating from the backside of a male Twelve-wired Bird-of-Paradise are actually used to brush the female with during courtship? When the female approaches the male closely on his display pole, he actually spins around and brushes her with them, as you can see in this image that captured the moment. Swipe to see the video. Visit www.timlamanfineart.com (or link in bio) to see the print options, on sale now!

28/04/2023

28/04/2023

20/04/2023

Thank you for the comment for the customers service....

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10/10/2022

26/08/2022

I believe this is the 14th group that have traveled to Kiunga for birdwatching.

Thank you Mr Samuel Kepuknai for your contribution to the tourism industry in Western Province.

If only the North Fly District can have in their budget to cater for such tourism activity in the province .

Watch this space for short stories and experience of the tourist coming to Kiunga for Birdwatching!

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10/08/2022

Another Discovery made along the new road in Tabubil by Birdwatcher💚

10/08/2022

Kiunga Nature Tours page is purposely created to give exposure of birdwatching in Kiunga-North Fly District, Western Province.
After realizing that, birdwatching is like a hobby or sports to many people around the developed countries in the world .
This page is created to capture some of these beautiful stories and decoveries made by the birdwatchers when visiting Kiunga.

Kiunga Nature Tours is here to encourage and promote birdwatching in the Island of New Guinea to try and see 42 birds of paradise species and almost four hundred and two(402 endemic out of 825 species in Papua New Guinea.

You are most Welcome to this page .

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08/08/2022

In 1987 with Tony Palliser and Hans Beste we spent two months hitch-hiking and birding through Papua New Guinea. Our trip took us to Kiunga and Tony came out of the flooded forest and told us that he had seen Campbell’s Fairywren, Golden-backed Whistler and Little Paradise-Kingfisher. We went back and found the kingfisher but never the other species. By 2000 I was making annual trips birding in Kiunga and in about 2010 there was another report of the mysterious Fairywren. Then a couple more reports-then a photo, then another photo and it was starting to get pinned down very occasionally. I made a trip to Lake Murray where Brian Coates found it but three days in the forest and nothing. This bird was getting to me. Two days ago the jinx was laid to rest on the Kwatu River. It seems they favour tree falls in pristine forest that leads to a surge of regrowth. Edmund and Glen got us into a site and boom 💥-up popped three individuals. With Max Breckenridge, Samuel Kepuknai and Jimmy Woram.

Words & pictures by:Dion Hopcroft (retrieved from Facebook,2022)

08/08/2022

It looks like we made a major mammal discovery on a recent trip to Papua New Guinea. Spotlighting near Kiunga, Glen found this giant Cuscus in the crown of a primary forest tree. It had a large infant with it. Currently the only large pale Cuscus on the southern watershed of PNG is Spotted Cuscus and I sort of took it for granted that it must be this species which is quite variable in colour and patterning but the black saddle is a feature of the rare and endangered Black-spotted Cuscus-known only from the northern watershed from very few specimens. Max Breckenridge took these good photographs and I think it can only be this rare species and a significant range extension. Included here is a photograph from Tim Flannery’s Mammals of New Guinea. It shows just how large this rare Cuscus is. Hopefully Team Kiunga United: Samuel Kepuknai Jimmy Woram Edmund, Glen and the team can help protect this rare national treasure.

Words & Pictures by :Dion Hobcroft🙏(2022)

08/08/2022

It was once in life time experience that I will never forget.

I stayed at Watame Camp four nights, one of the most important target is to photograph this amazing Flame Bowerbird display, which I only saw on BBC before, I was just in my second year of birding, it had immense impact on me, I felt like I could photograph many interesting bird species in remote area.

I watched and photographed it’s displaying for nearly 40 minutes, at the time, I was struggling with fog got inside the lens, however after wiping off the moist on my lens, I resumed my photographing mode quickly, I am so happy that I still produced many nice photos of this am amazing bird.

Kiunga is an extraordinary place for birding, we encountered many other cool birds as well. I hope I can go back one day soon. In the mean time, I would like to thank Samuel Kepuknai and Warren Dutton for accommodating me and guiding me for birding in this beautiful land.

August 2018

Words & Pictures by:Dustin Chen🙏