Birding Tour Indonesia: The Lesser Sunda Islands– Comprehensive Tour

This small-group birding tour visits six endemic-filled islands in the Lesser Sunda region of Indonesia. The tour starts and ends in Denpasar, Bali which provides an international gateway into the country before our tour will get underway, as we bird our way around the islands of Sumba, Rote, West Timor, Alor, Flores, and Komodo on what is sure to be a fascinating adventure around this rarely visited region.

Elegant Pitta, one of many exciting targets on this multi-island tour.

Our tour will focus on finding the island-endemic birds, regional-endemic birds, and many localized specials on offer here, such as Sumba Hornbill, Sumba Buttonquail, Cinnamon-banded Kingfisher, Least Boobook, Sumba Boobook, Sumba Eclectus, Citron-crested Cockatoo, Elegant Pitta, Red-naped Fruit Dove, Rote Boobook, Rote Myzomela, “Mt Mutis Parrotfinch” (a currently undescribed species), Black-breasted (Timor) Myzomela, Timor Imperial Pigeon, Timor Friarbird, Timor Sparrow, Orange-sided Thrush, Black-banded Flycatcher, Alor Myzomela, Alor Boobook, Flores Hawk-Eagle, Flores Scops Owl, Wallace’s Scops Owl, Chestnut-capped Thrush, Chestnut-backed Thrush, Flores Shortwing, Flores Crow, Flores Monarch, Ornate Pitta, Glittering Kingfisher, Yellow-crested Cockatoo, Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker, and many more, including an exciting range of parrots, fruit doves, sunbirds, and raptors. Komodo Dragons are likely to be a non-avian highlight when we step into a Jurassic world on the island they share their name with.

Sumba Myzomela is one of several range-restricted myzomelas (tiny honeyeaters that are reminiscent of sunbirds) that we can enjoy on the tour.

This tour can be combined with our Bali and East Java birding tour or our Sulawesi and Halmahera birding tour. Both of these birdwatching tours connect with an outrageous suite of endemic and regional specials and provides for an incredible Indonesian birding experience.