I guess there are limited species numbers for visiting birders and they can all be seen in the west and quite close to the airport. I bet there are some nice birding sites in the east though...
The following was recently published on the OBC web forum, by the way:
" Bali
This not being a pure birding trip, I basically
- birded Bedugul Botanical Gardens two mornings
- checked all rice paddies encountered for Java Sparrow and (my all-time Asian bogey-bird) Streaked Weaver, dipping on both
(but having great views of another lifer, White-headed Munia), and
- spent one prolonged morning at Bali Barat National Park
Best birds seen included
JAVAN BANDED PITTA
I was surprised to hear 4 males singing and two (additional ones?) calling at Bedugul Botanical Gardens. Even though I did not have the right recordings on me, imitating their song was enough to get very good views of two males. The birds were heard in the area found when taking the first road left after entering the gardens, then take the first concrete footpath right, take left at its T end and then take the first right, with steps down entering a gully.
SUNDA THRUSH
On my second morning of trying, one was seen well alongside a gully found after a stretch of c 80m lawn, after coming out of the gully described above. It also perched 6m up a tree. This gully also held two noisy FULVOUS-CHESTED JUNGLE FLYCATCHERs
DARK-BACKED IMPERIAL PIGEON
Two heard only at Bedugul Botanical Gardens.
GREAT-BILLED HERON
Great views of 1 on an exposed reef, while boating out to Bali Barat at 6.30 am.
LESSER ADJUTANT
Great views of 5 on the same exposed reef, while boating out to Bali Barat at 6.30 am.
BALI MYNA
Five ringed individuals were seen (and heard) displaying at Bali Barat's temple.
BLACK-WINGED STARLING
Only one, flying past the Bali Myna area. Here, a female Green Junglefowl was also seen; White-shouldered Triller was common and two Wild Pigs and a Barking Deer also put in an appearance.
RACKET-TAILED TREEPIE
As I did not know they occur (also) at Bali (& Java), but are absent from Sumatra, this surprise sighting of 1 in coastal scrub on the outskirts of Gilimanjuk was one of my highlights.
SAVANNA NIGHTJAR
7 roosting underneath mangrove scrub on the outskirts of Gilimanjuk; 1 calling and hunting low over Kuta beach one night.
CERULEAN KINGFISHER
Great views of a fine, perched male, in the mangroves from where the boat to Bali Barat departed.
JAVAN KINGFISHER
Only 1, in paddies just south of Bedugul.
Best regards,
Remco Hofland