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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rgallardy" data-source="post: 3599508" data-attributes="member: 128535">MorotaiHi all,After the very successful trip to Halmahera, our next stop was the little visited island of Morotai. Despite its close proximity to Halmahera, most birders have neglected this island until recently. Luckily, Marc Thibault was able to give me some great info from his trip a few years back and therefore our trip went fairly smoothly.We spent 2 1/2 days birding the island and managed to track down all of our targets. The main draw, Dusky Friarbird, is quite common as is a majority of the other soon to be splits including Morotai White-eye, Morotai Drongo, and Morotai Paradise Kingfisher. Since we had dipped the leaf-warbler on Halmahera, I was set on getting it on Morotai, so instead of some casual birding in the plantations near the coast, we did a brutal two day hike up and down the mountain so that we could get the warbler. Although the information Marc gave us was great, I somehow screwed up the distance calculation and figured we'd be hiking about 11km up to where the bird would be (600m). Instead it was about 17km up to the spot and then we had to hike 3 back down to our camp. Add in that it was raining for the majority of the day and it made for quite the adventure!Read more about our short, but very rewarding time on Morotai on the blog.<a href="https://budgetbirders.com/2017/08/07/morotai-indonesia-more-than-we-bargained-for/" target="_blank">https://budgetbirders.com/2017/08/07/morotai-indonesia-more-than-we-bargained-for/</a>Best,Ross</blockquote>

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