BIRDS OF WEDA RESORT – HALMAHERA
Many of the birds on the Weda Resort List of Birds can be seen on the premises of Weda Resort itself. Some examples: White Cockatoos, Eclectus Parrots, Redcheek Parrots, Dusky Scrubfowl, Hornbills, Paradise Crows, Goliath Coucals, Sombre Kingfishers, Halmahera Cuckoo Shrikes, Moluccan Cuckoo Shrikes. We had Blue Capped Fruit Doves, Halmahera Flycatchers and Rufous Bellied Trillers nesting here. Many other species, such as the Ivory Breasted Pitta, Invisible Rail and Wallace’s Standardwing Bird of Paradise are found near Weda Eco Resort and in the forest of our Sawai Ecotourism Foundation. Island Leaf Warblers and other inhabitant of the highland we observe during day-trips into the mountains.
Please visit our Birding Gallery for many exciting photos of the wildlife of Halmahera.
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Common Name | Scientific Name | Endemic? | Formerly known as |
| 26 | Spotted Whistling-duck | Dendrocygna guttata | ||
| 26 | Radjah Shelduck | Tadjah radjah | White-headed Shelduck | |
| 28 | Tufted Duck | Aythya fuligula | ||
| 30 | Dusky Scrubfowl | Megapodius freycinet | ||
| 40 | Metalllic Pigeon | Columba vitiensis | ||
| 42 | Spotted Dove | Spilopelia chinensis | ||
| 42 | Amboina Cuckoo Dove | Macropygia amboinensis | Slender billed/Brown Cuckoo Dove | |
| 46 | Great Cuckoo Dove | Reinwardtoena reinwardti | ||
| 46 | Nicobar Pigeon | Caloenas nicobarica | ||
| 50 | Asian Emerald Dove | Chalpophaps indica | ||
| 52 | Scarlet-breasted Fruit Dove | Ptilinopus bernsteinii | Endemic | |
| 54 | Superb fruit Dove | Ptilinopus superbus | Endemic | |
| 54 | Blue-capped Fruit Dove | Ptilinopus monacha | Endemic | |
| 54 | Grey-headed Fruit Dove | Ptilinopus viridis | ||
| 56 | Moluccan Imperial Pigeon | Ducula perspicilata | Spectacled/White-eye Imperial Pigeon | |
| 58 | Cinnamon-bellied Imperial Pigeon | Ducula Basilica | Endemic | |
| 60 | Pied Imperial Pigeon | Ducula Bicolor | ||
| 64 | Oriental Cuckoo | Cuculu optatus | ||
| 68 | Moluccan Brush Cuckoo | Cacomantis aeruginosus | Endemic | Moluccan Cuckoo |
| 68 | Australian Brush Cuckoo | Cacomantis variolosus | Brush Cuckoo | |
| 70 | Channel-billed Cuckoo | Scythrops novaehollandiae | ||
| 74 | Lesser Cougal | Centropus bengalensis | ||
| 74 | Goliath Cougal | Centropus goliath | Endemic | |
| 76 | Moustached Treeswift | Hemiprocne mystacea | ||
| 78 | Glossy Swiftlet | Collocalia esculenta | ||
| 80 | Halmahera Swiftlet | Aerodramus infuscatus | Endemic | |
| 80 | Uniform Swiftlet | Aerodramus vanikorensis | ||
| 82 | Moluccan Owlet-nightjar | Aegotheles crinifrons | Endemic | |
| 88 | Large-tailed Nightjar | Caprimulgus macrurus | ||
| 90 | Buff-banded Rail | Gallirallus philippensis | ||
| 92 | Invisible Rail | Gallirallus wallacii | Endemic | Drummer Rail |
| 94 | White-browed Crake | Poliolimnas cinereus | ||
| 94 | Pale-vented Bush-hen | Amaurornis | ||
| 100 | Pacific Golden Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | ||
| 108 | Grey-tailed Tattler | Tringa brevipes | ||
| 110 | Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | ||
| 122 | Oriental Pratincole | Glareola maldivarum | ||
| 126 | Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | ||
| 130 | Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | ||
| 138 | Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | ||
| 140 | Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | ||
| 140 | Christmas Frigatebird | Fregata andrewsi | ||
| 140 | Greater Frigatebird | Fregata minor | ||
| 142 | Lesser Frigatebird | Fregata ariel | ||
| 142 | Little Pied Cormorant | Microcarbo melanoleucos | ||
| 148 | Black Bittern | Ixobrychus flavicollis | ||
| 148 | Great-billed Heron | Ardea sumatrana | ||
| 154 | Rufous Night Heron | Nycticorax caledonicus | ||
| 154 | Australian Pelican | Pelecanus conspicillatus | ||
| 156 | Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | ||
| 156 | Pacific Baza | Aviceda subcristata | ||
| 164 | Black Eagle | Ictinaetus malaiensis | ||
| 166 | Gurney’s Eagle | Aquila gurneyi | ||
| 166 | Pygmy Eagle | Hieraaetus weiskei | ||
| 168 | Brahminy Kite | Haliastur indus | ||
| 174 | Varied Goshawk | Tachyspiza hiogastra | Variable Goshawk | |
| 176 | Halmahera Goshawk | Tachyspiza henicogramma | Endemic | Moluccan Goshawk |
| 178 | Rufous-necked Sparrowhawk | Tachyspiza erythrauchen | ||
| 184 | Moluccan Scops Owl | Otus magicus | Endemic | |
| 190 | Barking Owl | Ninox connivens | ||
| 192 | Halmahera Boobook | Ninox hypogramma | Endemic | |
| 200 | Blyth’s Hornbill | Rhyticeros plicatus | ||
| 216 | Common Paradise-kingfisher | Tanysiptera galatea | ||
| 220 | Blue-and-white Kingfisher | Todiramphus diops | Endemic | |
| 220 | Sombre Kingfisher | Todiramphus funebris | Endemic | |
| 220 | Collared Kingfisher | Todiramphus chloris | ||
| 220 | Beach Kingfisher | Todiramphus saurophagus | ||
| 222 | Sacred Kingfisher | Todiramphus sanctus | ||
| 222 | Variable Dwarf-kingfisher | Ceyx lepidus | ||
| 222 | Little Kingfisher | Ceyx pusillus | ||
| 222 | Azure Kingfisher | Ceyx azureus | ||
| 224 | Common Kingfisher | Alcedo atthis | ||
| 226 | Rainbow Bee-eater | Merops ornatus | ||
| 226 | Common Dollarbird | Eurystomus orientalis | Oriental Dollarbird | |
| 226 | Azure Dollarbird | Eurystomus azureus | Endemic | Purple Dollarbird |
| 228 | Indonesian Kestrel | Falco moluccensis | Spotted Kestrel | |
| 228 | Oriental Hobby | Falco Severus | ||
| 228 | Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | ||
| 230 | Umbrella Cockatoo | Cacatua alba | Endemic | Halmahera/White Cockatoo |
| 232 | Violet-necked Lory | Eos riciniata | Endemic | |
| 234 | Chattering Lory | Lorius garrulus | Endemic | |
| 236 | Red-flanked Lorikeet | Charmosyna placentis | ||
| 236 | Red-cheeked Parrot | Geoffroyus geoffroyi | ||
| 238 | Great-billed Parrot | Tanygnathus megalorynchos | ||
| 240 | Eclectus Parrot | Eclectus roratus | ||
| 242 | Moluccan King Parrot | Alisterus amboinensis | ||
| 244 | Moluccan Hanging Parrot | Loriculus amabilis | Endemic | |
| 250 | Sahul Pitta | Erythropitta erythrogaster | Endemic | Sultan’s Sahul Pitta/Red-bellied Pitta |
| 252 | Ivory-breasted Pitta | Pitta Maxima | Endemic | |
| 256 | Dusky Myzomela | Myzomela obscura | ||
| 260 | Halmahera Friarbird | Melitograis gilolensis | Endemic | White-streak Friarbird |
| 266 | Halmahera Oriole | Oriolus phaeochromus | Endemic | Dusky-brown Oriole |
| 272 | Moluccan Whistler | Pachycephala macrorhyncha | Golden Whistler | |
| 276 | Drab Whistler | Pachycephala griseonota | Endemic | |
| 280 | White-breasted Woodswallow | Artamus leucorynchus | ||
| 282 | Moluccan Cuckooshrike | Coracina atriceps | Endemic | |
| 282 | White-bellied Cuckooshrike | Coracina papuensis | ||
| 284 | Halmahera Cicadabird | Lalage parvula | Endemic | Halmahera Cuckooshrike |
| 284 | Wallacean Cicadabird | Lalage amboinensis | Endemic | Common Cicadabird |
| 288 | Rufous-bellied Triller | Lalage moesta | Endemic | |
| 292 | Gilolo Fantail | Rhipidura torrida | Endemic | Rufous Fantail |
| 296 | Willie Fantail | Rhipidura leucophrys | Willie Wagtail | |
| 304 | Halmahera Spangled Drongo | Dicrurus atrocaeruleus | Endemic | Spangled Drongo |
| 306 | Halmahera Paradise-Crow | Lycocorax pyrrhopterus | Endemic | Paradise Crow |
| 306 | Wallace’s Standardwing | Semioptera wallacii | Endemic | Wallace’s BOP |
| 310 | Moluccan Monarch | Myiagra galeata | Endemic | Shining Flycatcher |
| 310 | Shining Monarch | Myiagra alecto | ||
| 312 | White-naped Monarch | Carteromis pileatus | Endemic | |
| 312 | Wallacean Monarch | Symposiachrus trivirgatus | Endemic | |
| 320 | Long-billed Crow | Corvus Validus | Endemic | |
| 321 | Torresian Crow | Corvus Orru | ||
| 324 | Pacific Swallow | Hirunda tahitica | ||
| 336 | Halmahera Golden Bulbul | Hypsipetes chloris | Endemic | |
| 366 | Halmahera White-eye | Zosterops fuscifrons | Endemic | Cream-troated White-eye |
| 370 | North Moluccan Leaf Warbler | Seicercus waterstradti | Endemic | Island Leaf Warbler |
| 380 | Gray’s Grasshopper Warbler | Locustella fasciolata | ||
| 386 | Metallic Starling | Aplonis metallica | ||
| 388 | Moluccan Starling | Aplonis mysolensis | ||
| 406 | Grey-streaked Flycatcher | Muscicapa griseisticta | ||
| 434 | Blue Rock-thrush | Monticola solitarius | ||
| 442 | Halmahera Flowerpecker | Dicaeum schistaceiceps | Endemic | Flame-breasted Flowerpecker |
| 452 | Black Sunbird | Leptocoma sericea | ||
| 454 | Sahul Sunbird | Cinnyris clementiae | Olive-backed Sunbird | |
| 464 | Black-faced Munia | Lonchura molucca | Endemic | |
| 466 | Eurasian Tree Sparrow | Passer montanus | ||
| 468 | Grey Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea |
