Australians will feel at home in eastern Indonesia among the parrots, honeyeaters, white-eyes and monarchs, likewise, birders from Europe and Asia will find plenty of familiar families in western Indonesia’s pheasants, woodpeckers, pigeons, flycatchers and thrushes. But Americans will face the bewildering and exciting challenge of totally new species-something that awaits us all in Papua, which, though part of the Australasian realm, has a bird fauna all of its own.Taken from Jepson, P, 1997,
Birding Indonesia, Periplus Editions. Singapore