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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rgallardy" data-source="post: 3646468" data-attributes="member: 128535">Conquering SeramHi all,Well about six months later, we have finally made it to our last island of this thread, Seram! Our original game plan for Seram was like most other birders. Go and bird the Trans Seram highway and stay in Sawai. That all changed when I decided to read a Forktail article that Gareth Knass had sent me during the drive across the island. The 2014 article detailed an expedition to Mount Binaiya that resulted in two truly remarkable birds, Seram Thrush and Seram Masked Owl. Based on the info in the article, it seemed like putting together a last minute trek to Mt Binaiya would be pretty straight forward. Well spoiler alert, it wasn't. 6 days and over 70 kms of muddy trails later and we found ourselves back in Sawai after a very successful twitch of both the thrush and the owl!Check out the blog for more details on the trek and the first pics of Seram Thrush in the wild!<a href="https://budgetbirders.com/2017/11/22/seram-indonesia-the-perfect-storm-and-people-live-out-here/" target="_blank">https://budgetbirders.com/2017/11/22/seram-indonesia-the-perfect-storm-and-people-live-out-here/</a>Best,Ross</blockquote>