Birding Sulawesi: Tour Package for Birdwatching in Sonder of Minahasa Highland

This itinerary should be considered as reference only and can be modified according to the needs and time of tour participants.

Warbling White-eye

Day 1

When you arrive, we will meet you at Sam Ratulangi airport of Manado city.
After that we will organize your transfer by car to homestay in Sonder.
You will take a rest for 1 or 2 hours.
After having lunch, we will go birdwatching in the nearby rice field where you could watch White-browed Crake, Little Egret, Cattle Egret, Purple Heron, Chestnut Munia, Scaly-breasted Munia, Collared Kingfisher and Zebra Dove.
Back to homestay, dinner and rest.

Birds in North Sulawesi

Day 2
We will wake up early in the morning at around 05:00. We will have some coffee or tea with biscuits. At 05:30, we will leave our homestay for hill forest of Sonder.

We will look for such birds as Warbling White-eye, Black-crowned White-eye, Crimson Sunbird, Crimson-crowned Flowerpecker, Sulawesi Cuckoo-dove, White-faced Cuckoo-dove, Yellow-billed Malkoha, Gray-cheeked Green Pigeon, Green Imperial Pigeon, Sulawesi Pygmy Woodpecker, Sulawesi Drongo, White-eye Drongo, Bay Coucal, Isabelline Bush-hen, Barred Rail.
We will return to Sonder town at around 09:00 to take a rest. After that, we will continue again our birding around the homestay.

Sulawesi Hanging Parrot

Day 3
We will do an easy roadside birding to look for Black-naped Oriole, Pale Blue Monarch, Zebra Dove, White-eyed Drongo, Sulawesi Hanging Parrot, Sahul Sunbird, Gray-sided Flowerpecker, Yellow-sided Flowerpecker. Sometimes we could see birds of prey in the air such as Sulawesi Serpent Eagle or even the Lesser Fish Eagle.

Black-naped Oriole in Minahasa highland

Sonder town in the highland of Minahasa

Day 4
We will do birding in Mount Mahawu, Lake Linow and Pine Forest where we could see such birds as Turquoise Flycatcher, Sulawesi Blue Flycatcher, Gray-rumped Treeswift, and Sulawesi Myzomela.